The Kentucky Democratic Party wants an apology from a state senator from Pikeville.

The Kentucky Democratic Party is calling on State Sen. Phillip Wheeler, R-Pikeville, to apologize after he published a racially charged comment on his Facebook page in reference to Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam.

On a post yesterday, Wheeler referred to Northam as “Governor Ralph ‘Coon’ Northam,” then edited the post to read: “Governor Ralph ‘Coon-Man’ Northam.”

The Virginia governor, a Democrat, faced public outrage last year when he admitted to dressing up in blackface during a talent show in 1984, and for appearing in a photo in his medical school yearbook that showed a man dressed in blackface standing alongside another man dressed in a Ku Klux Klan outfit.