Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil' in attack on teaching about slavery

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The Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton has called the enslavement of millions of African people “the necessary evil upon which the union was built”.

Cotton, widely seen as a possible presidential candidate in 2024, made the comment in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published on Sunday.

He was speaking in support of legislation he introduced on Thursday that aims to prohibit use of federal funds to teach the 1619 Project, an initiative from the New York Times that reframes US history around August 1619 and the arrival of slave ships on American shores for the first time.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ry-necessary-evil-1619-project-new-york-times

Boy, the GOP is doubling down on racism.
 
I’m not a big Tom Cotton guy but don’t lie about what he said. He said the founders saw slavery as a necessary evil when the country was founded not that he personally believed that.

There’s enough to go after Tom Cotton without needing to make things up
 
cawacko said:
I’m not a big Tom Cotton guy but don’t lie about what he said. He said the founders saw slavery as a necessary evil when the country was founded not that he personally believed that.

There’s enough to go after Tom Cotton without needing to make things up
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Are you claiming the Guardian deliberately misquoted him? Please prove it.
 
cawacko said:
I’m not a big Tom Cotton guy but don’t lie about what he said. He said the founders saw slavery as a necessary evil when the country was founded not that he personally believed that.

There’s enough to go after Tom Cotton without needing to make things up
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In case you did not understand:

Cotton, who opposed recent efforts by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to remove Confederate names, monuments and symbols from military sites, has accused the 1619 Project of being “racially divisive.”

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jul/26/bill-by-cotton-targets-curriculum-on-slavery/?ne
 
jacksonsprat22 said:
In case you did not understand:

Cotton, who opposed recent efforts by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to remove Confederate names, monuments and symbols from military sites, has accused the 1619 Project of being “racially divisive.”

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/jul/26/bill-by-cotton-targets-curriculum-on-slavery/?ne
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If you would like to hear an excellent analysis/critique of 1619 Project here’s a great podcast from two black Ivy League professors and McWhorter is definitely not a Republican.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8hWQmzgiKXQ
 
cawacko said:
I’m not a big Tom Cotton guy but don’t lie about what he said. He said the founders saw slavery as a necessary evil when the country was founded not that he personally believed that.

There’s enough to go after Tom Cotton without needing to make things up
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Jackson's Twat is good at that.
 
cawacko said:
Can’t copy and paste an article from your phone so nothing lame about it but you can look at google which is what I did
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But why complain about some "liberal British paper"? The quote is everywhere for you to see.

We all know that slavery has been "necessary evil" throughout history. Nothing new.
 
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