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Governor Northam has a long history of being on the progressive and non-racist side of every issue. There is no trace of anything racist in any policy, action, or words anywhere, other than what looks to be a yearbook photo that has nothing to do with him and the Michael Jackson costume story.
As for the MJ costume, it was done because he admired MJ and as a part of a costume. Was it offensive, yes, but was it meant to be offensive, no. Did he realize years later that it had been offensive, yes, and he has apologized sincerely. Call him naive and a product of white privilege if you must, but some perspective and context would be useful here.
I think this knee-jerk reaction of furious outrage has become a case of Democrats eating their own. I think we are succumbing to a right-wing hit job of a successful Democratic Governor, and we are displacing our real outrage, which should focus on the GOP and Trump and their plethora of racist words, policies and history. Our rage and demands for resignation should take aim at the real perpetrators of racism in our time: the current president and the GOP complicit in his policies, as well as his jack-booted cyber thugs who are his enforcers.