have. i just that s why my caucus asked him to step down. it s time. and i understand that he wants to understand and learn the black person, i understand he s reading roo roots but i suggese also read for colored girls who considered suicide when the rain wasn t enough. things that are happening in the commonwealth with the allegations of lieutenant governor, we re tearing open wounds that have been try to heel. thank you very much, delegate herring. let me bring in my tangle. john elgin from the new york times. he s in virginia, by the way. alex hefner, host of nationally as i understand indicated talk show the open mind and joe watkins, republican strategist and former white house aide under president george h.w.
bush. joe watkins, you are a republican, but you are also a minister. wouldn t the governor be a hero if he stepped aside and worked on racial equity as an example that we have to deal with our history and i ve committed to donning blackface is a part of history we need to deal with. he would become an even bigger and more important figure in racial reconciliation. i think you re right. that would certainly be putting the commonwealth of virginia first and not his political interests first. that s what has to happen for healing to begin. people would really respect him if he stepped aside and as a private citizen worked on ways to improve the quality of relations between the races. alex, with having this allegation against the lieutenant governor and then the governor and the secretary of state on the race side who s
sorry, in the senate. he s been very, very strong on issues in matters of race. even talking to members of the senate on both sides of the aisle about his experiences as a u.s. senator, being stopped by the police in the capital. he s taken the president to task as well over charlottesville and various other incidents we ve had around the country. so he s been very forthright. the party ought to take its lead from him. i m out of time, alex, but you re saying full steam ahead, we need to deal with all the issues and not take race out of the equation? absolutely. populism can appeal to all demographics and it has to be real and authentic. and i think john points out it s not going to cut it just for the tribal element to be apparent. it has to be really substantive. it has to be earned. yeah. thank you, john, alex hefner, and joe watkins. up next, rapper 21 savage will miss his performance on
time at least to remove him from the committees, but he should be removed from liz seat. the strongest message would have been to remove him from his seat after making those comments and standing by those comments. he said what s wrong with white supremacy? completely unacceptable for any party, republicans or democrats. that ought to be unacceptable, period. the party made a move in the right direction, but it needs to be firmer, more consistent when it comes to issues of race. now, alex, as we move forward into the not only the 2022 election in virginia, the 2020 race is going to have to deal with some of these issues. we re going to talk about that. but race is not going anywhere. they accuse people of me like we keep bringing up race. if you re born in one of the race disadvantage, you might have to keep bringing it up because you re disadvantaged.
candidates. senator elizabeth warren earlier today joined the democratic presidential field that is more diverse than ever. but how will the democratic party deal with all the racial issues that are dominating our political landscape? my panel is back. john he go guard of the new york times, pbs host alex hefner, and republican strategist joe watkins. one of the things, john, that i ve been pressing for the last couple of decades is the democratic party had started moving away from dealing with race, triangulation and other things, one of the reasons i ran in 04. in 2016 people are getting away from identity politics. here we are with virginia and other incidents of race.