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By Kate Feldman The Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr. has come up with a solution to what he views as an objectionable mask mandate in Virginia: put Gov. Ralph Northam in his own alleged objectionable situation on it.“I was adamantly opposed to the mandate from @GovernorVA requiring citizens to wear face masks until I decided to design my own,” Falwell, the president of Liberty University, tweeted Wednesday. “If I am ordered to wear a mask, I will reluctantly comply, but only if this picture of Governor Blackface himself is on it!”He also included a photo of the makeshift masks, complete with the yearbook photo that features one person in blackface and another person in a KKK costume.Northam denied that he was either person after the medical school yearbook photo resurfaced last year. But at the same time, he confessed to wearing blackface on a different occasion.“That same year I did participate in a dance contest in San Antonio in which I darkened my face as part of a Michael Jackson costume,” he said during a news conference. “I look back now and regret that I did not understand the harmful legacy of an action like that. It is because my memory of that episode is that vivid that I truly do not believe I am in the picture in my yearbook. You remember these things.”A spokesman for Northam told the Lynchburg News Advance that the governor’s office “will not dignify that tweet with a response.”In a follow-up tweet, Falwell claimed that “Democrats are and always have been the real racists in this country.”Falwell has been criticized for his lax approach to the coronavirus outbreak, including bringing students back to Liberty University campus in late March against the advice of health officials.———©2020 New York Daily NewsVisit New York Daily News at Distributed by —————PHOTO (for help with images, contact 312-222-4194): Falwell Jr.

Jerry Falwell Jr. says he’ll only follow Virginia’s coronavirus mask rule if it has Gov. Northam’s alleged blackface photo