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What Northam SHOULD be saying (THREAD):
"This incident around my yearbook page has revealed to me, and to the whole country, how oblivious and utterly clueless so many of us white people are when it comes to the hateful, violent, and sinful history of racism in our country." 1/
"This incident around my yearbook page has revealed to me, and to the whole country, how oblivious and utterly clueless so many of us white people are when it comes to the hateful, violent, and sinful history of racism in our country." 1/
What Northam should be saying (cont.): "I will indeed resign, but that is no longer enough. I first need to repent of the sin of racism, on behalf of myself and on behalf of the state of Virginia of which I am the elected governor." 2/
What Northam should say (cont.): "I will practice that repentance as governor of the state of Virginia that was the cradle of the Confederacy, which was not only treason against the United States but a violation of the image of God by putting African human beings in bondage." 3/
What Northam should say (cont.): "On this year’s 400th anniversary of bringing slavery to the United States at Jamestown, Virginia, I will declare by executive order that all Confederate statues in Virginia will now be removed from all public places." 4/
What Northam should say (cont.): "The removal of these statues and monuments will protected by the Virginia national guard. I believe this is the right way to recognize the 400th anniversary of human bondage for black people in America — which happened in this Commonwealth." 5/
What Northam should say (cont.): "I will also declare the end of any more racialized voter suppression in Virginia, as well as the continuing racially unequal and unfair policing and mass incarceration in our state — with concrete policy decisions to make it so." 6/
What Northam should say (cont.): "After such repentance, I will resign." 7/ END.
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