The 18-member all-Democrat Virginia Legislative Black Caucus renewed its call for Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam to resign following his admission Saturday that he painted his face black to look like singer Michael Jackson decades earlier and refusal to step down for the racist photo on his yearbook page.
“We amplify our call for the Governor to resign,” the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus said in a statement. “In light of his public admission and apology for his decision to appear in the photo, he has irrevocably lost the faith and trust of the people he was elected to serve. Changing his public story today now casts further doubt on his ability to regain that trust.”
The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus Addresses Northam’s Refusal to Resign pic.twitter.com/z8pt15Uq3U
— VLBC (@VaBlackCaucus) February 2, 2019
Northam has claimed he is not the person in a photo on his page in a 1984 medical school yearbook of a person in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood and a man who had painted his face black.
Northam’s Democratic predecessor, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe called Friday night for Northam to resign, as did the Democratic Party of Virginia.
