VCC Magazine Spring 2019

V irginia C apitol C onnections , S pring 2019 3 Spring 2019 Volume 25 Number 2 • Editor-in-Chief –Bonnie Atwood • Assistant Editor –Hayley Allison • Student Editor –Cierra Parks • Staff –Harrison Seaborn, LaVon Dixon • Publisher –David Bailey Art Director –John Sours • School Distribution – schools@capitolsquare.com • Advertising – Ads@CapitolSquare.com • Printer –Wordsprint • Virginia Capitol Connections Quarterly Magazine (ISSN 1076-4577) is published by: Virginia Capitol Connections • 1108 East Main Street • Suite 1200 • Richmond, Virginia 23219 • (804) 643-5554 • Copyright 2018, Virginia Capitol Connections, Inc. All rights reserved. The views expressed in the articles of Virginia Capitol Connections Quarterly Magazine , a non-partisan publication, are not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. C O N T E N T S VIRGINIA CAPITOL CONNECTIONS QUARTERLY MAGAZINE On The Web www.vccqm.org 4 Publisher’s Introduction 5 Year of Reconciliation and Civility 6 The Unknown King 7 Deep Wounds 10 Where do we go from here? 11 More important to listen than to speak 12 “Don’t go into the colored section.” 13 After Integration 13 Moving Forward Again 15 Wasting an Opportunity to Learn 16 Naming Our Past and Claiming Our Future 17 Virginians for Reconciliation 18 Q & A with Larry Sabato 19 Virginia Legislative Staff 28 An American Unaware 29 HOT 6 General Assembly Topics 30 Hire Vets Now 31 Cookies and More 33 Close But No ERA 34 In Memoriam: Betsy Barton 34 Administrative Assistants 35 Association and Business Directory page 5 M cquinn page 6 page 10 Brogdon M cClellan Race and Reconciliation Virginia Legislative Staff page 19 page 7 jones