well, his proclamation left out a key word in american history, slavery. "washington post" quotes mcdonnell saying many number of aspects to that conflicts between the states. obviously involved slavery and involved other issues but i focused on the ones i thought were most significant for virginia and he left out slavery. doug waters. the former governor of virginia, and more recently the former mayor of richmond. jim moran, democratic congressman from virginia. governor, you were elected as the first african-american in a country to become a governor and you've been through -- you grew up there, you're a virginian. why are we going back to the confederacy in honoring in this strange sort of -- well i don't know what the right word is, sanitized way. >> chris, it's good to be with you, as always. but you're absolutely right, that reference to my election some 20 years ago shows you and showed any numbers of people across the country just how far they have come from that period. i'm the grandson of slaves and i can tell you that during that