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Confederate Terror

Roland Martin makes the case that Confederate soldiers in the Civil War were domestic terrorists — and shouldn’t be honored any more than we honor Muslim extremists who try to kill Americans.
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Roland Martin makes the case that Confederate soldiers in the Civil War were domestic terrorists — and shouldn’t be honored any more than we honor Muslim extremists who try to kill Americans. “The fundamental problem with extremism is that when you’re on the side that is fanatical, all of your actions make sense to you, and you are fluent in trying to justify every action.”

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