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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Friday apologized after admitting he is one of two people in a decades-old yearbook photo wearing blackface and Klu Klux Klan robes during his time in medical school.

"Earlier today, a website published a photograph of me from my 1984 medical school yearbook in a costume that is clearly racist and offensive," Northam said in statement. "I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decision caused then and now."

Northam added that it will "take time and serious effort to heal the damage this conduct has caused."

The Virginia Republican Party has called on the governor to resign. Northam's statement does not address which of the two men he is in photo on his half-page in the 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook.

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