re-enactors who want to bring the battlefield back to life. and we have a whole panel of johnny rebs joining us right now. tim and lisa knight are here with me in atlanta. nen there s h.k. edgarton live in north carolina. good to see all of you. don t be nervous. we re just talking. people want to lear from all of you. so thank you very much. what do you guys think about the controversy that s going on with the governor and with the proclamation? as far as from the state of georgia is concerned here is just celebrating the confederate heritage month. that s representing everybody that was a part of it. both, you know, whites, african-americans, hispanics, indians. it s not just representing one particular culture. i don t understand exactly as far as virginia portions of it, about leaving out slavery. but as far as the state of georgia is concerned, it represents everybody who participated during that event. do you feel the same way? i understand it s a very hot button topic.
confederacy, it was too late, it was 1865 so they weren t considered enough of a person to even join the army to be allowed to join the army and fight in the war. well, it s in between 10,000 to 15,000 carried arms. let s bring in h.k. edgarton. again, he is in charlotte, hillary clinton income. h.k., you would know about this because this is what you do. what do you say about african-americans especially the slavery part. a lot don t like this celebration because to them it means slavery. they feel they would be slaves had the south won. let s back up. first of all i d like to talk about some of the things mr. martin talked about. he called the people in the south some of the most honorable people in this country and said if the south had won the war we would be in the feels now. that s poppycock. it is a great thing that the
unacceptable omission and really fired up cnn s political analyst roland martin. it is what matters tonight. these were american terrorists. these were individuals who were committing a sin against humanity who wanted to keep the system of oppression, degradation and 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 fees right now as property as opposed to being free individuals. and so that s like somebody saying, oh, we re going to celebrate the nazi soldiers by saying, well, they were only doing their job. all right. that was cnn s roland martin so confederate history month is going on. we a whole panel of johnny rebs joining us right now. tim and lisa knight are here with me in atlanta and h.k.
those people participated, but they were not necessarily willing participants. and by the time african-americans could join the confederacy, join the army, it was too late. it was 1865. so many didn t they weren t considered enough of a person to even join the army, to be allowed to join the army and fight in the war. well, it s in between 10,000 to 15,000 actually carried arms. let s bring in h.k. edgarton. again, he is in charlotte, north carolina. h.k., you would know about this because this is what you do. what do you say to this, about african-americans, especially the slavery part of it? because you can understand, a lot of people don t like this celebration because to them it means slavery. they feel they would be slaves had the south won. well, let s just back up some of this. first of all, i d like to talk about some of the things that mr. martin talked about. he called the honorable people in the south of america, some of the most honorable people in this country am
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.