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"A photograph on Gov. Ralph Northam (D)’s medical school yearbook page shows a man wearing blackface next to another person in Ku Klux Klan robe."

No one should defend this as youthful indiscretion. Northam was an adult when he did this.

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This is absolute garbage. It's from medical school, not college. And it's not "in poor taste." It's racist.
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1. We spent a lot of time yesterday talking about Ilhan Omar and anti-Semitic tropes.

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Ralph to retract his apology and stand firm as a racist eugenicist maniac.
Shorter Northam: Hey I rocked blackface and KKK regalia so often I assumed the pic was me and I couldn't even say which outfit I was in. But maybe I just picked a photo of two of my racist friends for the med school yearbook. Stick with me.
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