Northam to hold press conference today at 2:30 to address the situation surrounding the racist photo

[oberliner]

Link to tweet

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. How will we know it's him?

[underpants]

2. Oh

That was good

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. He is going to say

He is going to say some miscreants went into the Hot Tub Time Machine and forced him to take that photo and put it on his yearbook page.

[oberliner]

4. Seems like blackface was a running theme at that school.

:large

[underpants]

6. Wow two on back to back pages

Yikes

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. I wonder how the Asian young man felt with all the casual racism in his midst.

[oberliner]

9. Someone from the school should shed some light on this

It seems like someone who was a student during that time could explain what was going on with those photos. Did they have school events where people dressed like this or what?

[Politicub]

11. What kind of nutty school was this?

Insane.

[Roland99]

15. Bazinga!

[underpants]

5. As I,posted elsewhere- let's say he doesn't resign. How does he handle this?

My take - he says soemthing to the effect of "If I go away this is just a story that is prohibitive but doesn't really change anything. Let's talk about race and racism. I changed. I learned (add in some Christian stuff here) and we all can learn. We have incidents like this and nothing comes of it. So since I only have one term let's use the next 3 years to be the beginning of having the conversation. My place is set. I will never live this down but I'm willing to take the slings and arrows if that helps us really look at each other and ourselves"

That I think would be the best way he could handle this and frankly we really need to have that conversation.

[oberliner]

8. It seems like things are trending towards him denying he was in that photo

Which I am not sure would lend itself to the statement you are suggesting.

[underpants]

12. First, it doesn't matter if he was in the pic. Second, I was just offering an option for him

Whether he was in the pic doesn't matter. He chose that as one of 4 to represent himself.

I was just thinking what the coms PR people might come up with.

[oberliner]

14. Right - I was just saying it does not look like he will choose that option

But we shall see!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. All the civil rights organizations want him gone.

He's not nearly as important enough to risk alienating our most important constituency over. Hell, a Democratic president couldn't survive this.

[underpants]

13. Very true

This is actually party over Commonwealth. He needs to take one for the team and he deserves to.

[TCJ70]

16. If he decides to go the "it wasn't me" route...

...after already apologizing I’ll join the resignation train.