what i m saying is that the folks in america see the southern people have done a great injustice here. the whole world was composite in the economic institution of history. new york, you and mr. martin i have to go because of time purposes. we only have a few minutes left on the air and there are other things that we have to do. i appreciate this. maybe if we can get you back we ll continue this discussion but i also learned about africa s role in slavery and i m not that young. it s back in the 70s. i disagree that we are not taught about that. thank you all for joining us. again, as i have said and as rolland has said, everybody has
weren t considered enough of a person to even join the army, to be allowed to fight in the war. it s in between 10 to 15,000 that actually carried out arms. let s bring in h.k. he s in north carolina. would you know about this. this is what you do. what do you say about african-americans, the slavery part of it. a lot of people don t like the celebration because to them it means slavery. they felt that they would be slaved had the south won. let s back up some of this. first i d like to talk about some of the things that mr. martin talked about. he called the people some of the most honorable people in this country american terrorists and said that if the south had won the war we would be there now. that s just plain poppy koking. that s people that want to end slavery and all dialogue.
now we have an opportunity to tell the southern side. in virginia, up until the days of war, those men and the sledge slate turs of virginia work very hard to have real emancipation for that slave. they knew that a man was not free unless he had an ability to take care of himself, unless he had land, a home for shelter, and someone, and possibly slaves of his own. you know, i resent the fact that this man like i don t know if mr. martin is from the north or where he s from but it s the same what they give to north that is not belonging in the north. it s from the south and i don t want you to take it to literally. i think what he meant was, had
unacceptable mission and really fired up roland martin. these were american terrorists. these were individuals who were committing a sin against humanity. who wanted to keep a system of oppression, degradation, absolute denial of opportunities for african-americans. we re celebrating people and had they won, don, you and i would not be sitting here right now. you and i would be in the fields as property as opposed to being free individuals. and so that s like somebody saying, oh, we re going to celebrate the nauts zee soldiers by saying they were obama doing their job. all right. that was cnn s roll labd martin. it s primetime for actors to bring it back to life. we have a whole panel joining us right now.