If that's not Ralph Northam in the photo why did he say it was him and apologize for it?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[manor321]

1. I guess he thought it was his other blackface photo? But turned out it wasn't? LOL

Who knows? He's a clown. Voted for Bush twice. We don't need him.

[HipChick]

2. Sounds like he changed his PR team mid stream

or hired new crisis management folks, before he got rid of the first set..

[elleng]

10. Something like that,

doesn't build confidence in his decision-making.

[PTWB]

3. He ought to resign.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. For sheer incompetence.

[empedocles]

5. I don't care much whether he resigns or not. However, this brouaha here

bodes poorly for the next 17 months of DU political debate.

[elleng]

9. Yes

[empedocles]

12. Great couple of days for republicons, greatly helped by some righteous dem allies

[Ms. Toad]

6. I suspect he did wear blackface in medical school -

and was perhaps inebriated enough at the party to which he wore it that when the photo appeared, he believed it to be of him, even though he had no recollection of the details of the costume - or of hanging with someone in a KKK costume.

[irresistable]

7. 1. He did this so often that he had a hard time keeping track of specific events.

or
2. Blackout Drinking?

[elleng]

8. Right.

[Codeine]

11. "The photos I was in featured a much more elaborate

Klan kostume, and my blackface makeup, unlike this mess, was truly on point — see my YouTube tutorial video!”

[oberliner]

13. He is responding to that question right now

He says he had not bought the yearbook and had never seen the photos before.

He is saying he is not in the photo.