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NORFOLK, Va. - Virginia Governor Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page includes an image of one person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe, according to WTKR.
The photo, which appears on his page in an Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook from 1984, shows two people but it's not clear whether either one is Northam.
An accompanying quote under the photo reads: "There are more old drunks than old doctors in this world so I think I'll have another beer."
A WTKR reporter went to the EVMS library in Norfolk Friday afternoon and found the page on which the photo appears.
Northam released a statement on the photo:
There were roughly 95 other students who appeared to be in Northam's graduating class. Most of the pictures showed graduates with their spouses, loved ones and friends. Some of them have poems, words of inspiration and information about their personal likes and where they are from.
House of Delegates Speaker Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights), Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment, Jr. (R-James City), House Majority Leader Todd Gilbert (R-Shenandoah), and Senate Rules Committee Chairman Ryan T. McDougle (R-Hanover) today issued the following statement:
The latest controversy comes one day after his office addressed backlash for supporting a state measure that would significantly loosen restrictions on late-term abortions in Virginia.
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