Slavery. nobody talks about those africans who went into my grandmama s village and snatched her out from my mama s arms and put her on the shores of mr. edgarton, i have to go, because of time purposes. we only have a few minutes left on the air and there are other things we have to do. i appreciate this and maybe we can get you back, we ll continue this discussion, but i also learned about africa s role in slavery in elementary school and i m not that young. it was back in the 70s, so disagree with you that we are not taught about that. that s in the history books and we ve talked about it before. thank you all for joining us. and again, as i have said and i think as roland has said and everyone has the right to protest, to celebrate, to reenact, to do what they want, but to leave out one part of it is disingenuous and we would agree with you on that. i disagree. i appreciate you all joining us. and thanks to those guys for joining us.
That doesn t amount to diddley. doesn t amount to diddley. barbour is already catching flak for those comments. the democratic national committee issued a statement saying slavery is a big deal and barbour is defending the indefensible. straight ahead, we ll hear from a whole panel of civil war reenactors to hear what they think about this controversy. well, right now we re going to run the story by cnn political editor, mark preston. mark, this is getting really political now. it s gone from a blue and gray issue to an issue about red states or, i don t understand why it s becoming political. what is political about this? what is left and right about this issue? you know, don, it really comes down to politics, right? whatever you talk about race, you have to be very careful about how you put it in the context you put it. if you listen to what governor barbour said right there, he said that, look, why should we why do we have to explain how bad slavery is? we all know that it w
no, no, not me. when i say you, i don t mean you personally. the folks in america, the north owes the southern people have done a great injustice here. the whole world was complicit in the economic institution of slavery. nobody talks about those africans who went into my grandmother s village and snatched her out of mama s arms and put her on the shores mr. edgarton, i have to go, because of time purposes. we only have a few minutes left on the air and there are other things we have to do. i appreciate this and maybe we can get you back, we ll continue this discussion, but i also learned about africa s role in slavery in elementary school and i m not that young. it was back in the 70s, so disagree with you that we are not taught about that. that s in the history books and we ve talked about it before. thank you all for joining us. and again, as i have said and i think as roland has said and everyone has the right to protest, to celebrate, to reenact, to do what they want,
My state legislature has made a legislatively inactive holiday, confederate memorial day. they ve done it for years under democratic governors and republican governors, and for seven years as governor i have issued a proclamation because of what the legislature has done. my democratic predecessors did so as well. i don t know what you would say about slavery, but anybody that thinks that you have to explain to people that slavery is a bad thing, i think it goes without saying. there s ainsensitive. you clearly don t agree. to me, it s the sort of feeling that it s a knit, that it is not significant. it s trying to make a big deal of something that doesn t amount to diddly. confederate history month is going on in a number of states n our next hour, you re going to hear from a whole panel of civil war reenactors to hear what they say about the controversy. it is a conversation yesterday that got all of you talking, viewers and people in social media alike are getting hundreds