Ralph Northam’s press conference on Saturday addressing a racist photo in his 1984 yearbook may have just made things worse. During the hourlong conference, Northam said he wasn’t sure if he was in the photo, which showed a man in blackface and person in Ku Klux Klan garb. However, he did reveal that he once darkened his face with shoe polish and dressed up like iconic pop star Michael Jackson — whose name he briefly forgot — for a dance contest. Northam won the contest because of his ability to moonwalk, he told reporters. Then, when asked if he could still moonwalk, Northam glanced around, as if looking for space to dance, before his wife interrupted him by saying, “inappropriate circumstances.”The governor also made a comment about how hard it is to get shoe polish off one’s face.

Source: Huffington Post February 03, 2019 00:00 UTC