Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170815:22:24:00
Account. we just had this conversation about monticello. the very real explanation that is required to say someone cannot be both a slave and a mistress. mistress implies a level of c consent, an agency denied a person enslaved. these are real, significant issues in american history. he's not talking about history. he's talking to those forces that feel they have been m maligned. they have been sideline ed or lt out. they are not interested in the historical past. they are interested in trying to use that for basis for their brief empowerment right now. >> you mention this history as a tool fo...