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Step down and start his road to redemption. do you believe he should resign? i don t today. i mean, i think there is a rush to judgment that is unfair to him. we will continue to put pressure for him to step down. governor northam s press conference, if that s what you want to call it on saturday, was to me something that really showed the divide of how our white citizens, even with the best of intentions, good people who do good things, are clueless about the impact of race and blackface and things that african americans understand intuitively are wrong and offensive and hurtful. one of the reasons why democrats are saying that northam should step aside is because of who is set to replace him. so that s justin fairfax. he s the democratic lieutenant governor. he is a direct descend entitle of a freed virginia slave. would you make the mueller report public because you say there s nothing in there it s totally up to the what do you want them to do? ....
He had the papers in his pocket signifying when his great-great-great grandfather was freed by lord fairfax of great britain. we re talking about 1798. that s how justin fairfax got his name. it s an amazing piece of american history. to me it s even more amazing that those freedom papers would exist in the same family for some 200 years and you re right. justin fairfax is the direct descendant of a freed virginia slave and when he was sworn in he had the papers of his great-great-great grandfather tucked into his pocket. you have the democrats who say they want ralph northam to resign in part because he s politically toxic now, but also because they d rather hit the stump and the campaign trail in the commonwealth which you know is the seat of the old ....