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Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax (D-Va) did not call for Governor Ralph Northam's resignation. If Northam retired, Fairfax would become Virginia's second black governor.

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Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax (D-Va) did not call for Governor Ralph Northam's resignation. If Northam retired, Fairfax would become Virginia's second black governor.

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Lt. The current governor of Virginia is not Governor Justin Fairfax: young, charismatic and part of a multicultural wave sweeping the Democratic Commonwealth party.

He may soon be called to head the state, should Governor Ralph Northam. , Democrat Democrat, reverse the course of his action and join the avalanche of appeals – from within and from outside Virginia – so that he resigns.

If this happens, Fairfax would only be the second African American governor to sit in the history of Virginia. Virginia, and one of the few across the country since its rebuilding.

Fairfax, 39, was considered a rising star of the party long before the controversy surrounding the Northam Medicine Directory page in 1984, which includes an image depicting a man with a black face and a disguise as a member of the Ku Klux Klan burst in late last week.

Silent Protest

Since taking office a little over a year ago, Fairfax has praised its resistance. celebrations of Virginia's racist past.

As a lieutenant governor, one of Fairfax's duties is to preside over the state Senate. Last month, on the occasion of Robert E. Lee's birthday, while his elected officials paid tribute to the Confederate General, Fairfax descended from the podium and sat down as a sign of protest.

"I would like to point out that my children, my grandchildren, will not see me on a video presiding over a motion honoring people who fought for a set of laws and a society that enslaved members of their family, "Fairfax said shortly after the protest against the WVTF member station.

"It was the right thing to do." Jeffrey Bourne, Democrat in the House of Delegates of Virginia, says that's what it should be for Virginia.

Bourne is a member of Virginia's legislative caucus, which has called for Northam's resignation, saying the Fairfax protest sent a message that racism and fanaticism were things from Virginia's distant past.

It was a great testament and an example of who Justin Fairfax is and who he will be in his life as an official. "19659008] Fairfax is the descendant of a Virginia slave named Simon Fairfax, emancipated in 1798 The Lieutenant-Governor says that he had a copy of the mission documents of his great-great-great-great-grandfather when he was sworn in.

Fairfax graduated from undergraduate degree from Duke University and studying law at Columbia, both of Before assuming his duties, he was Deputy Prosecutor of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia

. His wife, Dr. Cerina Fairfax, is a family law practicing dentist in northern Virginia. They have two young children, Cameron and Carys.

For his part, Fairfax did not ask Northam to resign as a result of the revelation that the Governor's Yearbook page contained a racist photo.

In a statement of Saturday. Fairfax is said to be "shocked and saddened" by the images. He told NBC4 in Washington that he hoped the governor would make the right decision.

"We are at this moment decisive in influencing the history of Virginia and this country, and we need leaders and leaders able to unite us.," Fairfax said.

Northam apologized for appearing on the photo late Friday and "for the prejudice that this decision caused yesterday and now". On Saturday, he reversed his position saying that he was not in the picture.

"Fairfax is the leader Virginia now needs"

Virginia Democratic Meaning. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner have called on Northam to resign. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California also presided over the presidential elections.

The same was true of former Vice President Joe Biden, who also tweeted during the weekend that "Justin Fairfax is the leader Virginia needs.

Not to mention President Donald Trump and the ex-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who also called for resignation.

Rachel Bitecofer, professor of political science at Christopher Newport University of Newport News, states that Fairfax, directing this healing period could be a good thing for Virginia.

"I really think having Justin Fairfax at the governorship of the United States." State at this critical juncture of American politics has a lot of symbolic value, especially here in Virginia, where racial politics has been so much in the limelight. "

Clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, at a rally of Unite the Right and Corey Stewart, GOP Senate candidate for 2018, who has come forward as a champion of confederate values.

She adds that if Fairfax were to become Northam's term, he would be eligible for a full four-year term in 2021. Under the Virginia Constitution, governors are limited to a four-year term. But because Fairfax would assume that role, he could represent himself.