It's been over a month since Virginia Gov
It’s been over a month since Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam apologized for a racist photo that ran on his 1984 medical school yearbook page. Despite a wave of calls for his resignation from both sides of the aisle, Northam is still in office and doesn’t appeared to be going anywhere.
“This last few weeks have been difficult and hurtful for Virginia and for this country, and I regret that,” Northam said, according to a video recording by an Associated Press photographer who was allowed in at the beginning of the event. “I will do everything that I can to bring good from what’s happened.”
Northam promptly issued an apology, saying he was “deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now.” The governor insisted then and has continued to say that he would not step down from office, despite numerous urgings to do so, including from the Democratic Party of Virginia.
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