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Commonwealth of virginia. once that picture with the blackface and klansman came out there is no way you can continue to be the governor of the commonwealth of virginia. we ve had a horrible and sordid past as it relates to race relations. we ve worked to move the state forward. if you remember 1902, a state senator said that i m putting a felon disenfranchisement in our constitution to eliminate the darky from being a political factor in virginia. i was proud to 114 years later give those felons their rights back. but we ve worked hard in virginia. so this is, i ve got to tell you, it s heartbreaking. one of the worst 48 hours. but vrirginia needs to come out of this stronger. i can t sit here and pretend and be in the steps of those individuals who have been offended by those photos. let me ask you, if it s not him in the photo, which is what he s saying, why do you still think he should resign? well, first he said it was ....
This picture. and then friday evening, it came out that ralph indeed was, he said, he was in the picture. at that point for me, morally, the only right thing to do, and it was hard. i called ralph on friday night. it was one of the hardest things i had to do. was my lieutenant governor. we worked closely together. we did so many great things working together for the commonwealth of virginia. once that picture with the blackface and klansman came out there is no way you can continue to be the governor of the commonwealth of virginia. we ve had a horrible and sordid past as it relates to race relations. we ve worked to move the state forward. if you remember 1902, a state senator said that i m putting a felon disenfranchisement in our constitution to eliminate the darky from being a political factor in virginia. i was proud to 114 years later give those felons their rights back. but we ve worked hard in virginia. so this is, i ve got to tell ....
you know, i don t have a clue. i don t know if that line is actually part of the image. but it s really hard to say. you know, once again, i m pretty skeptical. that new dimension could once again be a container. you just don t know. les, we re talking about how time is of the essence right now. it s almost 7:00 in the morning here. but it s almost 7:00 at night there. once they do hit you know, once the sun goes down, are search efforts completely called off? or in a case like this, where we have something breaking, we have something new to look for, would they continue to look for anything, or is it just futile, in the darky. yeah, christi, that s a good question. my opinion is, they would probably, with night coming into the picture, i would discontinue the search. i think the only way we re going ....
Most horrible reasons. a delegate, delegate glass at the convention in 1901 when it was put into the state s constitution that said because of this plan the darking will be e limb namted as a factor. the governor made it easier for communities to heal and the state to heal. and that s very important. it s interesting, ben, that you have that reference. it s a very, you know, offensive reference when you use that quote when you say darky, obviously that s applying to african-americans. governor, i want to ask you because there will be skeptics who will say, well, perhaps you are bringing this forward to give rights to african-americans for republicans to gain more support for your party. there is certainly a movement for broadening out the base, if you will. how do you respond to that? well, listen, there are actually i think more white convicted felons than african-americans. so this is a justice issue, suzanne. ....
Race element. what we re exposing, 500,000 people omitted, that s immoral and bad public policy. it s hurting blacks, whites, republican, democrat. we re doing 25 tours using this document and we ve had a house full of people every day on our tour, blacks and whites coming together and saying this is wrong. you know, this is really in many ways the great transforming hope of the south. that s why the virginia/north carolina story is so fascinating. you are talking the old confederacy. you re talking the south south south, right, and you re also talking a place that barack obama won twice in a row and north carolina which he won once and narrowly lost the second time, and that s the place where you can see the vision of promise of the new south. and let s be really clear. this law in virginia that we just put in this massive dent in this week, when it was put in place, the man who put it in place, the delegate who pushed for it 1901 said because of this plan, the darky shall be el ....