Emmett Till was taken and lynched and brutally murdered, and it was apparently supported by the state and people involved in the government," he pointed out. "There was no question of what that was. This thing was not Emmett Till. This was a young man, who apparently jumped on a man who thought he was a quasi-policeman. And the two had a scuffle, and one of them shot the other one."

"Well, that's the way it was. So, why do we make such a big thing out of it?" Robertson asked. "Why don't we just chill out and say justice has been served, justice has been done?"

"We don't need to exacerbate the racial tension. What we need to do is love each other and live in harmony in this land and respect the rule of law."