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The Chimes
The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes
The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes

A boyhood faux pas should not end a governor’s career

There are plenty of reasons to ask for Northam’s resignation. A yearbook photo is not one of them.
Brian Brooks, Freelance Writer • February 10, 2019

A photo was released this week purporting to show beleaguered Gov. Ralph Northam in blackface. The photo was taken from the governor’s 1984 yearbook and shows two figures, one of whom is a white man wearing blackface, the other of whom is a person dressed in the robes of the Ku Klux Klan. Although...