During a Juneteenth program, a C-SPAN caller argued that Black Americans should do more to thank the white soldiers who fought for their emancipation.
A Republican caller from Texas used his time on C-SPAN's Juneteenth program to suggest that Black Americans should thank white people for the end of slavery.
More than 592,000 people died in the American Civil War, including 334,680 Union soldiers, who fought for the abolition of slavery, according to the National Park Service. The Union Army included over 2.4 million white soldiers and more than 178,000 African American soldiers.
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