A Deeper Look at Northam

Originally posted on February 3, 2019 at DaTechGuy Blog.

With the news of the last few days [sic] being that Governor Ralph Northam (D-VA) dressed up in either blackface or in Klan regalia in a 1984 college yearbook (or maybe he didn’t), it’s necessary to remember that Northam had been in the news earlier in the week for a reason that produced far less levity.

Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam came under fire Wednesday after he waded into the fight over a controversial abortion bill that one sponsor said could allow women to terminate a pregnancy up until the moment before birth — with critics saying Northam indicated a child could be killed after birth.

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Northam, a former pediatric neurologist, […] said that third-trimester abortions are done with “the consent of obviously the mother, with consent of the physician, multiple physicians by the way, and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities or there may be a fetus that’s not viable.”

“So in this particular example if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

This is infanticide, of course. And, in New York state, it’s law.

Since the yearbook photo became public, Republicans and Democrats alike have been calling for Northam’s resignation and some are complaining that people seem to care more about the old photo than about intentional killing of babies. In the case of many Democrats, that’s probably true. But, taking the two issues together, it seems to me that Northam’s blackface/Klan get-ups in 1984 (as opposed to if they were dated, say, 20 years earlier) and his attitude toward living beings newly or almost born are part and parcel of the same mindset – something I’ve been trying to point out all day.

I don’t know if I’ll be able to explain it adequately, but I’ll give it a shot.

To someone like Northam, both blacks and babies in the womb are less than fully human. Therefore, blacks can be caricatured using hated stereotypes and terrorists and are encouraged to kill our offspring. One is merely distasteful and mockable; the other evil and genocidal, but they have the same origin: true racism.

I’ve been making jokes about the blackface thing for a couple of days now because, as my friend Melanie Collette pointed out

You know who isn’t clutching their pearls over an old pic of a Democrat in blackface or a white hood?

Black Republicans#WokeHistoryMonth

— Melanie Collette MPA (@NJGOPDiva) February 2, 2019

We have been face-to-face many times with white Leftist hypocrisy and shadiness on race. So, that’s how I recognize the root.

There are many, many more like Ralph Northam, great and small. I don’t care if he resigns or not since he is merely the tip of the iceberg.

ADDITIONAL (12/31/2019): With Northam and Virginia's Democrat legislature poised to start a civil war in the state over guns, I'd say that Northam is Peak Democrat.

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