Virginia governor now says he “doesn’t think” he’s in pic featuring KKK-robed figure, but members used hoods to hide their identities

Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam was exposed this week as a blatant racist after a photo from his 1984 medical school yearbook turned up on his page featuring one person in blackface and another dressed in KKK robes and a hood.

After apologizing for the offensive picture, Northam has been ‘encouraged’ to step down from his position by several Leftist Democrats including two running for their party’s 2020 nomination.

“Leaders are called to a higher standard, and the stain of racism should have no place in the halls of government. The Governor of Virginia should step aside so the public can heal and move forward together,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), tweeted.

Leaders are called to a higher standard, and the stain of racism should have no place in the halls of government. The Governor of Virginia should step aside so the public can heal and move forward together.

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 2, 2019

“It doesn’t matter if he is a Republican or a Democrat. This behavior was racist and unconscionable. Governor Northam should resign,” added former San Antonio mayor and Obama administration official Julian Castro.

But the governor, who earned the potentially racist nickname of “Coonman” in college, is defiant so far, even going so far as to claim, remarkably, that he doesn’t believe that either person in the picture — on his page — in his med school yearbook is him.

The Associated Press reported: “A Virginia Democrat who has spoken with Gov. Ralph Northam has told The Associated Press that the governor now does not believe he was in a racist picture in his 1984 medical yearbook and has no immediate plans to resign.”

While there is no way of knowing who is in the picture at this juncture, it’s worth pointing out that back when the KKK was founded — by post-Civil War Democrats in the South — and throughout its heyday, Klansman wore hoods precisely so they could hide their identities (and their political affiliation). 

Before they wore hoods, Klansman wore other disguises and costumes, all to remain “anonymous” and “unaccountable,” The New Republic reported in an expose on the KKK in January 2016. The hood would come later, around 1915 or so, thanks in large part to Hollywood’s depiction of the Klan in “The Birth of a Nation,” the first feature-length film to be screened in the White House (by President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat and an early ‘progressive’).

Anonymity wasn’t needed until the Klan’s popularity began to wane

The magazine noted further:

Anonymity wasn’t quite the point: While the hoods could assure their wearers’ personal anonymity, their force came from declaring membership in a safe, privileged identity that was anything but secret. The hoods made Klan membership cool; they helped rebrand the Klan as a popular, patriotic, money-making, white clubhouse movement. Over the next few decades, the Klan would morph again, going bankrupt and facing tax evasion charges, then reviving, diminished in numbers but ferociously violent, as an anti-black terrorist organization during the Civil Rights Movement. But as the Klan waned or regrouped, the hooded uniform remained, sometimes anonymizing acts of covert violence, sometimes adorning a public, unconcealed, violent group identity. 

There was a period of decades when Klansmen (and Klanswomen) didn’t have to hide their identities because, thanks to Jim Crow laws and the fact that Democrats owned all levers of power in the South after federal troops departed following Reconstruction, there was no need for it. (Related: The SILENCE is deafening: Not a single Democrat speaks out against infanticide.)

Overt acts of domestic terrorism in the form of beatings, lynchings, burnings, and other forms of violence were meted out freely. Only when the Klan began losing support in the 1930s through the 1960s did anonymity become important again.

At this point, it’s not clear whether Gov. Northam is in blackface in the controversial photo or if he’s hiding his identity under a KKK robe and hood — which would be convenient for him. What is clear, however, is that just by being on his yearbook page he is identifying with overt racism of the worst kind. He should resign.

Read more about Democrat-inspired racism at RaceWar.news.

Sources include:

TheNationalSentinel.com

APNews.com

NewRepublic.com