Al Sharpton tears into South Carolina's Catherine Templeton for embracing Confederate heritage

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The Rev. Al Sharpton on Sunday slammed Republican South Carolina governor candidate Catherine Templeton for her comments on the campaign trail about her family's ties to the Confederacy.

During his weekly "Gotcha" segment on MSNBC's "Politics Nation," Sharpton criticized Templeton for speaking fondly of the Confederacy.

He was referring to remarks she made last month at Bob Jones University, where she told a mostly student crowd that her relatives fought for the South in the Civil War because "the federal government was telling us how to live."

"I think it's important to note that my family didn't fight because we had slaves. My family fought because the federal government was telling us how to live," Templeton said.

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One of Templeton's ancestors owned 66 slaves.