All right. So we're all in agreement that the lieutenant governor should be encouraged

to step down. Virginia had a bit of a year last week. One more quick thing before we

get out of here. As you all know earlier this week, our governor admitted to wearing black

face and college as part of a costume. It suffered embarrassment. And then later the attorney

general also admitted to wearing black face and college as part of a costume. After embarrassment.

It's extremely embarrassing to the state. It became the laughing stock of the country.

And as chair of the ethics committee, I have to ask, has anybody else worn black face in college?

It got its own SNL sketch. But what if the costume won a contest?

What was the contest? Blackest face. But Christy Coleman says this isn't just a Virginia thing.

This is a national problem. Mentionally see and all of that. It was something that the entire country

participated in. And we see really the birth of popular black face as an entertainment form,

actually getting its start in New York City. She spoke to me from the American Civil War Museum

in Richmond, Virginia, which she runs. For Virginians, it is more painful, perhaps simply because it

is something that has come to the fore when Virginia has been working so hard to be a tad more

progressive. You know, this is a state that has a very mixed economy. It has urban centers that are

extraordinarily diverse. And so this slide backward from a figure or figures that people

presumed were a part of that march forward is the jarring part.

For the uninitiated, from what exactly is Virginia moving forward, Virginia is preparing to

commemorate three key events that happened in 1619. The first of those being the first of

representative government, the second of those being the arrival of women. And the third, of course,

is the arrival of Africans in 1619. They are brought here against their will and they are sold

to be put to work in the Virginia colony. By the 1700s, of course, slavery is very much

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