White Virginia Democrats ripped for slow-walking Northam resignation demand

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A key black Virginia political leader Tuesday hit white Democrats for not moving quick enough to demand the resignation of Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam over a picture on his college yearbook page featuring a man in blackface next to another in a KKK robe.

Phyllis Randall, the chairwoman of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, said that she has been fielding calls from whites asking if it was OK to condemn Northam, who first admitted to being in the picture before changing his story to claim it’s not him.

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