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Coming up, black children in alabama expected to tolerate statues of slave holders. then conservatives in arizona should be able to tolerate mexican american students embracing their past. and later, more than 1,000 ministers are making their way to washington, d.c. right of t justice. we'll be right back.
Week unfolded, don't get caught up in talking about the statues. that's what he wants you to talk about. yet at the same time when you look at folks coming frout boston and protest happening around ut austin, taking down jefferson davis statues and others, it seems like a fight people want to have. and an important one. what do you think? >> diszintinction matters. when they were put up matters as well. put up during jim crow. to further terrorize blacks and inequality. when trump tries to change the conversation and talk about washington and jefferson, i have many issues with them as slave ho...
But since 1909, number two is robert e. lee. i think when we have so many other people, in 2017, is it really robert e. lee that we would say is the person we want to stand for who virginia is? i'm not sure it is. >> and you look at that. you have also in virginia two slave holders representing the state of virginia. >> right. and you could look at it two slave holders, two people that the most recent of whom was active in the 1860s. we haven't had anything good in the last 100 years that we think should respect us. >> there were statues designed to be removed over time. the only requirement i...
So you've given up on the idea of representative government? >> no, i haven't given up on anything. >> tucker: yes, you have. >> what i'm saying, i understand that some people who champion social justice get it before the main society gets it. just as some people in the republican party were slow to get their president is disfunctional. >> tucker: all right. let's get back to the question of slave holders, though. this is meaningful. you make a defensible point out civil war question. but what bothers me about the idea that all slave holders need to be erased from american history. >> i think ...
In charlotte a couple of yeeshs ago. it's still not resolved. we're moving in every form and fashion to complete the task of eradicating these symbols of hatred and division. now, as to slave holders, to say the issue of slave holders. >> tucker: one thing, just so you know, i'm not even arguing with you, just one of the reasons this hasn't been resolved the public is not for doing this. only a small minority, only about a quarter of the people polled yesterday in the united states thought that these monday uments should come down. over 60% said they should remain as historical remnants of an ...