'BradCast' 2/4/2019 (Race, Ralph Northam and Resignation?)
Should Virginia's Democratic Governor Ralph Northam resign after revelations that his 1984 medical school yearbook featured a photo of a man in blackface standing next to a man in a KKK costume?\xa0 Gov. Northam first apologized for the photo's impact, but then at a press conference asserted he was not in the photo at all, and does not remember dressing up in minstrel show blackface or as a Klansman as seen in the photograph. Top Democrats from Virginia to D.C. and beyond continue their calls for Northam to resign to allow his Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax -- an African-American Democrat -- to replace him. But should he? Should he be shunned for an action that may have never happened, or if it did, happened 35 years ago? The answers to those questions are both yes and no, as we discuss with callers today, focusing on Northam's remarks at his strange Saturday press conference, in which he stated that resigning would "spare" him "from the difficult path that lies ahead... I could avoid an honest conversation about harmful actions from my past." We endeavor to have a least part of that "honest conversation" with many callers who weigh in, including some history about key civil rights figures who overcame their racist histories to lead on landmark civil rights issues. Also today:\xa0 MSNBC edits out the most important part of a voting rights ad aired during the Super Bowl by Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams -- cutting is off just BEFORE the crucial line calling for "hand-marked paper ballots"...