It seems like 750 years ago that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam was found to have had an offensive blackface-and-KKK photograph on his college yearbook page. A lot's happened since then!
But one thing that hasn't happened is, somehow, incredibly, we still don't know the identities of the two people in the photograph. Northam does—but he's not telling:
Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia claims he is "99% sure" he knows the identity of the man pictured wearing blackface in a picture on his medical school yearbook page.
The image in question appeared in Northam's 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook, depicting the blackface-wearing man alongside another student in a Ku Klux Klan costume...
Northam told The Washington Post that he has been in contact with the man he believes appears in the photo, saying he is "99% sure" he found the real blackface wearer. Northam told the paper that the man's name is alphabetically "very close to mine."
I gotta say, it's pretty amazing that it's been almost exactly three years since this whole thing came to light, and yet somehow—incredibly—our stalwart, democracy-defending, indispensable media corps have somehow done absolutely nothing to uncover the identity of the individuals in this photograph.
Anyway, I suppose the guy whose name is alphabetically "very close" to Northam's is probably sweating pretty hard right about now.
Of course he'd actually have to exist first and you know I kinda feel doubtful that he does but I guess we'll never know!
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