NAACP head: No way Ralph Northam's career survives racist photo scandal
by Daniel Chaitin
| February 03, 2019 09:26 AM
The head of the NAACP said Sunday he doesn't believe Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam can stay in office after a racist photo emerged in one of his old medical school yearbooks.
Asked during an interview on ABC's "This Week" if the Democrat has a way to "survive," NAACP President Derrick Johnson said "I don't."
Northam apologized on Friday when the racist photo from his 1984 medical school yearbook surfaced, showing a man in blackface and a man wearing Ku Klux Klan robes and hood. He changed his tune on Saturday, saying at a press conference he didn't think he was in the photo, but acknowledged that he did wear blackface that same year to dress up as singer Michael Jackson for a dance competition.
Northam has so far refused to resign.
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