"Dumb." "Wrong." "Stupid." "One silly thing." "Years ago." "Whomst among us."

[WhiskeyGrinder]

Y'all, Northam's costume was RACIST. Straight-up racist. Not acknowledging it was racist makes it sound like you're excusing him.

[TDale313]

1. Yep.

also, the nickname Coonman. And he’s admitted it was him. This was not so long ago that a mid-20s Med school student would not have been aware this was racist af.

[LBM20]

2. Yes, racist. AND dumb, stupid, foolish, etc. But yes, also YEARS ago. MANY years ago. So it

doesn't mean that it should define the man's entire life nor his life today. Let's be FAIR. People make mistakes and people change.

[snpsmom]

3. yes indeed. n/t

[jrthin]

4. Totally agree. Were he standing next to the blackface or

the ku klux klan person, I'd have a headache as to his poor choice. But, he's either in the blackface or ku klux klan outfit. That is just unacceptable. And it saddens me that people on this site are saying that this was years ago and it's forgivable. Well, it's not.

[irisblue]

5. This was last week

Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) Tweeted:
This was last week https://t.co/rJubgOAZ5C

Link to tweet

[BlueStater]

6. I agree that it was racist.

The question is has he exhibited any signs that he's a racist throughout his political career? Not from what I can tell.

https://wtkr.com/2018/08/24/gov-northam-honors-historic-african-american-cemetery-in-hampton/

People CAN change and become better. I'm not even referring to just Northam specifically. And when they do change and prove themselves to be better human beings, I feel that we should forgive them and not hold the people they used to be against them for the rest of their lives.

Northam should probably resign, but that doesn't mean I think people should forever dismiss him as a racist for who he was 35 years ago and never take into account who he is in the present.

[uponit7771]

7. I don't think anyone isn't acknowledging it was racist

[UniteFightBack]

8. His 'reason' was awful....I mean really. He should of come fully clean - repent...go into it a

little more...express deep regret...blah blah blah. I mean DUH. He's gotta go.

[yardwork]

9. I'm about the same age as Northam.

In my college yearbook there were photos of fraternity boys wearing Confederate uniforms. It was a thing at the time. This particular fraternity had a Confederate Ball or some damn thing every year.

I didn't participate. Nobody I knew would have dreamed of participating.

Those were Confederate uniforms. I can't imagine anybody dressing up in minstrel blackface or in a klan costume, even in the late 70s or early 80s. It would have been considered extremely racist then.

I don't know much about Northam. Maybe he has changed a lot. Maybe he's no longer incredibly insensitive, privileged, and racist. He certainly was all those things in 1984.

[jalan48]

10. Well, he voted for Bush and Cheney twice so I'd say he hasn't changed much.

[yardwork]

11. Well ffs.

I can't even post what I'm thinking.

[underpants]

12. By all accounts he really is a good man

but it’s clear that he’s resigning and should.

[akraven]

13. I knew that in 2nd grade and I'm 64.

It was FUCKING stupid. Period.