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

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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