00:00I did not want to even go down that road of talking about slavery.
00:07It angers me how are our people who were treated.
00:21There has been a history in the South of teaching revisionist history.
00:27We have to understand our history. And one of the great ways to do that is through original documents and through artists.
00:34It's not history that just belongs to a certain group of people. It's all of us.
00:39And if we're going to be a country of all of us, then we all have to accept and pour into and consider and educate ourselves on the things that have impacted all of us throughout history.
00:49Part of reconciliation and part of figuring out where this country goes is for us to really take a look at where we've been.
00:55A name is the most important thing you have. If you go to a cemetery, there's no history written. There's just a name.
01:07So their names, you will remember them. It's a transformation from unknown to known.
01:14The truth here is that people like my great-great-grandfather, people in my family, felt it was justifiable to inflict this kind of violence on others.
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