Corey Stewart, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Virginia, on MSNBC Sunday said people were "sick and tired of talking about race all the time."
But journalist and former MSNBC host Touré Neblett, appearing on the show with Stewart and host Rev. Al Sharpton, challenged his comments, saying that “when you talk about how we are obsessed with race, what we hear is ‘I don’t want to deal with race. I want to not talk about it.’”
Neblett insisted that everything is related to race, because, “This is a white supremacist country and we have to deal with that in every way -- in how we relate to the police, in how we relate to jobs, how we relate to the criminal justice everything.”
Stewart is trailing Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine 49 percent to 26 percent among likely voters, according to a poll released earlier this month by L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Stewart has been criticized during the Senate campaign for his defense of Confederate monuments and for his alleged connections to white nationalists, according to The Hill.
When Neblett told Stewart on MSNBC that almost no blacks would vote for him, the GOP candidate insisted that he had the support of black leaders. However, when Sharpton challenged him to name even one such individual, Stewart refused to do so.
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