Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam: I Wore Blackface but Not in Racist Photo
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Saturday resisted calls to immediately resign from office—claiming he does not appear in a racist yearbook photo but admitting he had worn blackface in his past.
“I believed then and I believed now I was not the people in the photo,” the Democrat said, standing next to his wife in the governor’s mansion in Richmond.
“I recognize many people will find this difficult to believe,” he said, acknowledging that he said it was him in the photo when he issued an apology after it surfaced on Friday.