The Arkansas Republican senator came under pressure over published comments in which he said America's founders viewed slavery as a"necessary evil."
Tom Cotton, seen as a possible 2024 presidential candidate, made the comments in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette while attacking the New York Times 1619 Project's effort to make slavery a focal point of American history for US schools. "As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction," Mr Cotton said.Launched last year to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the arrival of African slaves on America's shores, the New York Times 1619 Project would place the consequences of slavery and the contributions of African-Americans at the centre of US history.
Mr Cotton wants to withhold federal tax money from an elementary and secondary school curriculum promoted by the project.
His 'cotton-picking' words, no matter the context, must be condemned!
This was also said at Nuremberg War trials by 2 top Nazis on trial.... Is history repeating itself?
it is not a necessary evil but evil of convenience and laziness to do your own work. but millions of lives were destroyed so you need to acknowledge and ask for the forgiveness for the sins your ancestor made in the greed for power and money.
One could propose that many large corporations, that have their goods manufactured in offshore sweatshops so the folk from wealthy countries can buy the goods at inflated prices, still see slavery as a necessary evil.
That’s as bad as Scomo saying we never had slavery in Australia!
US T wins election and tries to crush any opposition and ongoing opposition, T loses and refuses to accept result and faces courts and opposition drummed! : bloodshed or civil war! OR IS HE PREPARING THE STAGE FOR A WAR OR GRAND CONFLICT ON THE WORLD STAGE BEFORE NOVEMBER?!
Yes, 'out of context' !! They weren't intended to be made public!
Imagine quoting someone as laughably dishonest and discredited as Ida Bae Wells while trying to beat this non-issue up into a story. Great reportage as usual, !
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