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    Dahleen Glanton: If Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam resigns over racist photo, who wins?

    by Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune Feb 05, 2019 3 minutes

    Let's be clear. The deafening chorus of Democrats and Republicans calling for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to step down over that blackface picture has little to do with African-Americans.

    It's about politics. Specifically, it's about Donald Trump.

    If there ever was a case that pointed out both parties' shallow interest in pushing forward an agenda addressing racial equality, it is this made-up angst over a picture that appeared 35 years ago in a medical school yearbook in Virginia.

    Virginia, of all places. Everyone knows the racist history of that

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