Monday, February 4, 2019

Governor Ralph Northam Gives Republicans A Chance To Say 'DEMOCRATS ARE THE REAL RACISTS!"

Democratic Governor Ralph Northam and his Medical School Year Book Photo
(admitted he was in the photo then retracted then started tap dancing.
Democrats & Republicans, both, are calling for his resignation

There's very few people, black or brown that don't know there are white racists on both sides of the aisle. But the GOP hypocrisy here is DEEP in the age of Trump. The GOP ran their boy Gillespie's campaign against Northam using white supremacist dog whistles (bull horns) at every turn. 


That lying racist (or formerly-racist) jackass Northam needs to resign. But never let the GOP's hypocritical b.s. fool you into thinking that white supremacy isn't just laced through the party but a foundational basis of who they are -- even the ones that aren't as overt about their racism as Orange Chump is. 


From VOX
     There’s a clear-cut case to call for Gov. Ralph Northam’s resignation...
     Conservatives watching the controversy unfold were seeing it do so in part through the lens of a story that broke last week, one that had outraged many in the anti-abortion camp of the GOP. In fact, by Friday afternoon, when his bafflingly racist yearbook photograph was first publicized and then verified, Northam was already in boiling political waters — over not race but abortion....
     No wonder, then, that many conservatives connected his abortion comments to his yearbook photograph...
     But there’s something else going on, something deeper: For some on the right, Northam’s photograph served as political vindication, proof positive that Democrats can be just as racist as Republicans...But let’s add more context to the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial election, which was anything but an example of political piety. 

  •      First and foremost, the Gillespie campaign repeatedly attempted to tie Ralph Northam to the violence of the gang MS-13...
  •      And the candidate Gillespie defeated in the Republican gubernatorial primary, Corey Stewart, went on to win the Republican primary for the United States Senate, while enjoying friendships with Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler [an alt-right racist & Charlottesville organizer] 
  •      ...and former Wisconsin Republican House candidate (and anti-Semite) Paul Nehlen, whom Stewart described as a “hero.” 

  • [Gillespie campaign's ]“Trump-Stewart talking points,” Bannon meant not just the ads about MS-13, but two ads paid for by the Gillespie campaign that attacked Northam for supporting the removal of Confederate memorials, and a mailer that attacked NFL players protesting against racial injustice, stating, “You’d never take a knee ... so take a stand on Election Day.”...
...Republicans calling for Northam to resign are doing so more because of his comments on abortion and less so because of the Republican Party’s “tough” stance on racism [..]..." 
https://www.vox.com/2019/2/4/18208410/northam-gillespie-racist-yearbook-conservatives-claim-vindication?

Ralph Northam is probably refusing to resign because he knows the white folks in his state aren't bothered by that photo in the slightest. He knows that this old photo will blow over as quickly as Agent Evil Orange's "shit-hole countries" did for the majority of white republicans in his state.



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