Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D.), at a Saturday press conference, denied being one of the individuals in a 1984 yearbook photo which shows a man…
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D.), at a Saturday press conference, denied being one of the individuals in a 1984 yearbook photo which shows a man in a Ku Klux Klan hood next to a man wearing blackface. The governor also refused to resign despite growing calls for his resignation.
«I believe then and now that I am not either of the people in that photo,» Northam said. «I recognize that many people will find this difficult to believe.»
The picture first surfaced on Friday evening on the website Big League Politics and was quickly confirmed by the Virginia-Pilot and the Washington Post. Northam released a statement that admitted to being one of the individuals in the photo, although he didn’t specify which one. The photo appears in Northam’s Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook page.
