UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT

Gov. Ralph Northam is screwed, glued and tattooed

by Bob Walsh

One of the things we look for in political leaders is the ability to think on their feet. Ralph Northam, who is the governor of Virginia and who may or may not be a closet racist, does not have that skill.

Recently a 35-year old photo surfaced from his med school yearbook. It shows two people, one in blackface and the other in KKK regalia. The caption asserts that Northam is one of those in the photo.

His first response was I'M SORRY, THIS ISN'T ME NOW, PLEASE FORGIVE ME, GROVEL GROVEL, I WILL WORK HARD TO REGAIN YOUR TRUST.

His second response was, THE CAPTION IS IN ERROR. I AM IN FACT NOT ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN THAT PHOTOGRAPH.

I somehow feel that he got this backwards and doesn't quite get it. You deny FIRST and apologize only if the denial does not work.

His own people, the Democraps, are out to run him out of town on a rail. The Black Caucus wants to lynch him. Obviously they can not FORCE him to resign.

His Lt. Governor is Black. He is probably drooling right now in anticipation.

Northam sure as shit isn't getting another job any time soon, except maybe as a prison doctor in the deep South. He is screwed, glued and tattooed and he knows it. He may hang on tooth and nail till the bitter end, because he maybe needs the money.

Sometimes stepping on your dick hurts right now. Sometimes it hurts 35 years later. I had thought that by 1985 most of the hard-core, overt racism had disappeared from mainstream respectable colleges. I guess I was wrong.