Trump says black people who want statues down 'need to learn' history
Donald Trump has once again addressed the issue of statues of slave holders and Confederate generals, telling black Americans offended by the memorials they 'have to learn' about the history of the country.
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Trump tells black people who want statues taken down they 'need to learn' from history and not erase an entire era otherwise 'you're going to go back to it sometime'
- Donald Trump was interviewed by Fox for a show broadcast Sunday evening
- Trump, who has made protecting statues a priority, was asked about the policy
- He was asked his message to black Americans whose 'ancestors were enslaved'
- Trump replied: 'My message is that we have a great country'
- He continued that black Americans 'have to learn' or they 'will go back to it again'
Published: 06:32 BST, 29 June 2020 | Updated: 10:04 BST, 29 June 2020
Here is the quote: "My message is that we have a great country, we have the greatest country on Earth. We have a heritage, we have a history and we should learn from the history, and if you don't understand your history, you will go back to it again. You will go right back to it. You have to learn. Think of it, you take away that whole era and you're going to go back to it sometime. People won't know about it. They're going to forget about it. It's okay."