Do you really believe that?
Attacking Republicans for what they haven’t done yet?
They accepted Steve King for years. They supported Ron Desantis for using racial dog whistles. They support a racist president with a white nationalist administration. It’s not stupid; it’s your denials that are stupid.
I’m not arguing that white attitudes haven’t changed; they just haven’t always changed fast enough.
Again, this is a photo in a medical school yearbook, and it’s also consistent with what was written in his VMI yearbook. It’s not like some private Polaroid photo that was taken when he was drunk at a frat party. This is a reflection of the society in which he lived. We’re talking about VMI society, medical school society, the graduates of which go on to become officers in the military, businessmen, physicians, or something else.
There are people in jail for crimes they committed 35, 45, 55 years ago, and people with permanent criminal records for things they did 35, 45, and 55 years ago. There are people killed by the state, either executed or ‘shot while resisting’ for things they did 35, 45, or 55 years ago. Also, why is there NOW so much wailing and gnashing of teeth about how you can’t hold someone accountable for 40-year-old actions or things they did when they were college aged, instead of back when politicians started accusing opponents of being draft dodgers? If you really shouldn’t be held accountable for decisions you made at 18, shouldn’t ‘draft dodging’ stop being mentioned at all.
There’s a pretty big gap between anything that ‘would by today’s standards be offensive’ and ‘wearing a kkk outfit and/or blackface for a yearbook photo, and doing it so often you don’t even remember which incident of blackface/kkk photo this one is’. And there’s a pretty big gap between saying ‘yeah, I was pretty awful back in those days, but I’ve changed’ and ‘I apologiz… I mean, that’s not me, it must be someone else, yeah, that’s the ticket’.
So I just woke up. He still hasn’t quit. Imagine that.
Here it is Sunday evening and Northam still hasn’t resigned. Anyone want to predict what will break the camel’s back? The other guy in the photo comes forward? Demonstrations in Richmond? A sudden revelation about campaign finance irregularities?
Well, he’s probably watching the Super Bowl…alone.
Though if he wanted to announce his resignation now is the time to get out of Dodge.
I gotta figure, based on that, that he really doesn’t want to resign and see his ambitions end. But I also conjecture that he knows he’s done and needs to come to terms with it.
He can’t have another term as Governor even if this totally blows over and everyone learns to love him. Any ambitions for Senate or the Presidency are gone for good over this. He won’t get out of the primary. The rest of his term will be useless because no one will work with him. He’s done. There is no way out.
Yeah, but it can take time for people to accept that sort of fate. In his head, he’s got to know he’s done. But his heart may not yet be ready to accept it.
Well, if it is not him, why shoudl he resign?
Do you really believe it’s not him? Really?
Northam isn’t resigning because he doesn’t feel the need to resign. After all, it was “a joke” among (white) friends, and besides, look what he’s done for the Negro in the time since. Would you rather have had Gillespie as governor? Northam “protected” the Negro from the Republican party’s racism; therefore, people should be grateful.
I assume he’s going to resign, but . . . remember Larry Craig? He announced he would resign then decided to serve out his term, and there was essentially nothing anyone could do about it. I think Northam’s in the same boat. His political future is dead, so why not hang onto a job that at least keeps giving you a steady paycheck and the possibility (however remote) that lightning could strike and he can find an angle to turn his fortunes around?
From what I’ve read Virginia standard for impeachment is limited to acts in office, so he can’t be forced out. What does he gain by resigning?
I dont know. Is it him? Or did they pull a prank on him?
I really want to hear from more people who went to school with him.
Not outside the realm of possibility, I suppose. But, if so, why did he initially own up to the photographs on Friday, before backtracking on them on Saturday?
what were his exact words?
He didnt admit it was him. He apologized for the photo and past indiscretions. That could well be he was sorry that the photo appeared on his page, not that he was in it.