In a bizarre Saturday press conference, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) announced that he would not resign over a racist photo from his medical school yearbook. Northam now says he was not one of the men in the picture, though he admitted to once wearing blackface as part of a Michael Jackson costume.

I am asking for the opportunity to earn your forgiveness, Northam said, standing alongside his wife.

He claimed that he had never before seen the photo which showed a man wearing blackface alongside a man in a Ku Klux Klan outfit because he did not purchase the yearbook. He said that when his staff showed him the photo this week, he was seeing it for the first time.