Now Governor ‘Coonman’ Denies He Was In Racist Blackface-KKK Picture

A live grenade detonated in the bunker of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam yesterday after a racist picture of him either in “blackface” or KKK garb hit the news has taken another twist as the embattled Democrat remains defiant despite calls for his resignation.

On Friday night, it appeared as though Northam’s goose was cooked after 2020 frontrunner Kamala Harris called for him to step down along with the NAACP, The Congressional Black Caucus and influential leftist political organizations like MoveOn.org.

Northam even profusely apologized for the offensive image which he copped to although he didn’t specify whether he was the one in “blackface” or the grand wizard.

Northam even profusely apologized for the offensive image which he copped to although he didn’t specify whether he was the one in “blackface” or the grand wizard.

Now as he battles for his political life, Northam has flip-flopped and is reportedly claiming that he wasn’t in the picture at all.

Via CNN, “Northam tells Virginia Democrat it wasn’t him in racist photo, won’t resign despite mounting pressure to do so”:

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has told a source he now believes it is not him in a racist yearbook photo and, despite mounting pressure to resign, that he will not do so, according a top Virginia Democratic source who spoke to the governor on Saturday.

Northam told the source he was in touch with some of his former Eastern Virginia Medical School colleagues, who said they believed many of the pictures in the yearbook were mixed up.
Northam did not recall the picture being taken, he told the source, and said he was not involved in the production of the yearbook.

Despite the increasing calls for him to resign, Northam also told the source he is not going to step down, which comes ahead of his planned statement to the media Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET from the Executive Mansion in Virginia.

The New York Times first reported Northam was making calls.

This contradicts what Northam said in a statement Friday night: “Earlier today, a website published a photograph of me from my 1984 medical school yearbook in a costume that is clearly racist and offensive.”

The racist photograph, which was obtained by CNN, that appears in the 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook shows one person dressed in blackface and another in the KKK’s signature white hood and robes.

The photo was first reported by conservative website Big League Politics.

Northam still hasn’t offered up a similar defense of a profile in the Virginia Military Institute yearbook showing that his nickname was “Coonman” which would seem to any objective observer to have serious anti-black racial connotations.

From Northam’s press conference that just wrapped up:

Get this! He is trying to play it off that he once donned blackface as a tribute to the pedophile “King Of Pop” Michael Jackson.

Northam’s excuses are of the same type that the dog ate my thesis that the moon is made out of green cheese and while CNN will probably have his back, it’s hard to see how his admission that his blackface was a tribute to Michael Jackson will placate the lynch mob.

The golden rule of politics is that when you are in a hole, stop digging. Instead Northam is asking for a bigger shovel.