Dr. Ben Carson discusses Juneteenth and the importance of teaching history
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Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson explained the importance of Juneteenth and properly teaching history on “Sunday Night in America.”
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"Juneteenth is so important because it actually efficiently recognizes the emancipation of the slaves, and slavery was a horrible thing, there’s no question about it. But I think we need to recognize that slavery has been a part of virtually every civilization since there has been written history," Carson explained.
He continued, "We in America have actually done something that no one else really did. That is, we had so many people who are opposed to it that we fought a Civil War, a bloody Civil War, lost a large portion of our population to get rid of this evil. And that says something about this nation as a people. We’re not all the same. We have a lot of different opinions but overall tendency was to move toward freedom and justice for people."
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