Why Does Ralph Northam Deserve No Mercy?
Politics,Ralph Northam,Justin Fairfax,Mark Herring,Virginia
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AllSides Media Bias Rating: Lean Right
Over the past week, Virginia’s Democratic Governor, Ralph Northam, has been engulfed in a firestorm. It follows the publication of a medical-school yearbook page of his that shows two individuals, one dressed in blackface and one in a Ku Klux Klan outfit. It is not clear from the photo whether Northam is one of these two individuals, or why he chose to include this image on his yearbook page.
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