, calling slavery"a necessary evil" that allowed America to develop, and he wants to retaliate against schools that teach the real history of slavery.
So, in essence, what he's saying is that slavery was needed because it served a purpose but the plan was to eventually end it.
Maybe to a bunch of lazy asses who felt they were too good to work the land and build a life
My question is why when we freed them we didn't set them up on a reservation with land and a way to preserve their way of life.
Please stop giving him publicity.. he is a national disgrace
Come on now, who better to say it than Tom Cotton, even the man's name is a nod toward slavery, he needs to get off of his great grandfather Richards Richard
Wow TMZ this is low even for you. He was quoting the founding fathers.
Only because they were lazy and didnt want to put in the work. What poor examples for men to emulate. And then wanting to lead a country? No wonder we are where we are today. Racist and lazy.
Fake!!!
His last name says it all
I don't cotton to this guy. Forgive me.
Uncle Tom cotton can't even go back to his on white neighborhood in Arkansas trust me I live here.
It’s amazing how this country tries to protect/justify the most horrific part of US history. No matter what they’re consistent in their hate. Slavery was not a necessary evil it just plain evil. Whites need to be honest about their cultures history.
How about reporting the real news of the homeless in California instead of someone buying a $200K pony for a kid or Amber Heard shitting the bed... or why the TheEllenShow set looked like Epstein's pedo Island.🌻 Pizza, Pasta and Cheese are code words in the Pedo Child Ring.
Well, if Tim Cotton feels that way, then reparations should be a necessary compensation. Pick your own 'cotton', Senator and cut them checks! 😐
Complete Mischaracterization. Shaping should be libel. Fake news.
And ending the products of that “necessary evil” is the duty of this generation per our ancestors. 🤷🏽♀️☕️🐸 LetTheGamesBegin ItTime MyAncestorsWildestDream
And of course the native American genocide was necessary as well. Republicans are just white supremacists in sheep clothing.
Fake news. You need to do your due duty and research this before reporting this as real news. You are lazy and just pulled this off of someone's twitter feed.
I get it the colonizers & settlers were weak riddled with disease comin from repeated famine & already lazy since they were felons. So they seen these strong genetically superior untapped elite continent full of superhumans & decided to capture brainwash manipulate TO BUILD THIS
Jesus H Christ - read the ENTIRE quote 🙄.
Fake news.
Because they were cheap and lazy?
Fake news
Question to all the oppressed Black's? If you could go back in time, would you send the ships back to Africa that came to America?
So give us our Fucking Reparations
Obviously...Cotton is his last name....
Okay............
Omg good old US and A
What is the most wealthy, safe and successful Black Country? City?
That’s a reach
so why were only african americans enslaved🤪
Lol. No. He. Did. Not. Fake news knows no bounds!
He spoke true W/o this practice there wouldn’t be America
Way to LIE TMZ... The Republican Senator from Arkansas put it this way ... “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.'
now wait just a cotton picking minute
ok tom COTTON
The fact that he was elected to be a senator is what's mind-blowing 🙄
TMZ posts article called “Slavery Was ‘Necessary Evil’”
Cos Whites thought they were too good for that kind of work? America was built by color. Color should have the right to enjoy it too. Black, white, Native's, Asian, Latino and many others. We want the America 'Our Ancestors built'.
Fake news
CANCELLED?
There you are, capitalism as conducted by the super- wealthy
He did not say that - this has been disproved. Please try to keep up
Use the entire statement
He’s exactly right!!
says the white man, necessary evil, pure stupidity
At least he called it an evil.
Historically speaking he is correct and the majority of the initial slaves were whites that were impoverished.
If slavery was a “necessary evil” then why weren’t White people slaves
A racist thinks slavery was good...why the suprise?
Fuck him. Tired of my races getting beat up by these bitches. If you think that it is a “necessary evil”, say thank you and pay out reparations. It was a choice.
And what was the Holocaust also necessary evil! STFU
Sounds like a strange reply from a guy named cotton.
The world if colonizers were never on they’re bullshit
I bet his ass wouldn’t have volunteered as tribute
A modern-day confederate trying to justify slavery.
FakeNews . See actual full quote.
Unless I hear the full story from his mouth I don't believe a word the media says anymore!
If it was a necessary evil, then why aren’t reparations necessary?
I’m so sick of these assholes!! Evil is right!!
The USA had no plan to end Slavery. Post CivilWar Confederate Monuments are proof.
is trash
TMZ should be considered a super pac donation to the DNC No longer even close to media
Where is Ellen and Oprah and Tom hanks TMZ How come your not doing a story on the truth instead of spreading lies? Let me guess you pos we’re involved too!!!!
Tom COTTON
Can't change the past... If you figure out how, send me the lottery numbers.
icecube use Tom’s words at the United Nations when we present our case for crimes against humanity and genocide
icecube So it was necessary and evil. Then you shouldn’t have a problem compensating us Tom, for work that you just acknowledged are forefathers did to make you wealthy. And pay us for the pain and suffering .. you know the evil part... for the kidnapping, rape and brutality.
Neccessary? Yes, I can agree that the founding fathers thought slavery was necessary but evil? I doubt that.
What fuckin founding fathers😆 my ass!!! this is our land mf 💯 Native Americans 👊🙌
Should’ve left those nogs in the jungle where they belong, or put them in a zoo
Tom cotton as in Uncle Tom? And Cotton... Seriously?
No he didn't, those weren't his words, he quoted.
Jeeesus
Needs to be voted out
I'd like to ask him just how far his idea of 'necessary evil' goes. Was it necessary to beat the slaves? Was it necessary to rape the slaves and sell their own children into slavery too? Was it necessary to deny the slaves any human rights? Is it necessary to be a racist now?
I'm anxious to see what he calls a 'necessary evil' of America today if such a thing even exist
And this is why we march! Because of ignorant people like TomCottonAR ! A name that matches his stupid comment!
TomCotton sounds stupid AF... Really? A “Necessary Evil... to Founding Father’s?!?! There were a multitude of way “Founding Father’s” could have benefited WITH, not FROM the oppression of minorities... We see today the efforts to prevent a sequel to such ignorance.
And just like that he wasn’t a senator.
Even his name sounds racist...like a mixture of Uncle Tom and Picking Cotton. 😐
It takes a fool 🤬🤬
Fake news, you are misrepresenting what he said.
Not everything you think you should say out loud TomCottonAR your mother should've taught you that
It was way of life back then... How do you think the Egyptian Pyramids were built? By African slaves... The Taj Mahal was built by slave labor and their hands were chopped off after that so they will never build such a masterpiece again. It was a demented world, still is.
Well with that last name of course he would say something like that!!
But his racist is real
FakeNews
Tom Cotton: “Sometimes you just have to violently kidnap some people, destroy their lives and their families, if you want to get the cotton picked and the back 40 plowed.” What an asshole!
He never said it
valonfox That is correct this country wouldn't be great without taking the necessary steps. Which is why the Black people should be proud in their contribution in making this a great country.
See‼️ That the type, talk some nonsense, pointless, bull$hit & then wonder why we as a race are so angry!! People trying to move on & y’all keep bringing up old wounds!! 🤦♂️
I mean he has cotton in his name
just like child labour during industrial revolution
'Slavery Alert'. If America is still such a bad place. Then everyone is free to leave.
So many Italians didn't need to die building and working as slaves. Even thought these building could last a lifetime.
slaves made this country what it is while their 'owners' watched from their balconies. slaves, no matter what race or period in time, should not be reduced to dogs, horses and mules. it wasnt necessary. just evil.
If he deems it a 'necessary evil,' then he must also acknowledge the need for a 'necessary' JUSTICE. 'I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is Just, and that His Justice cannot Sleep forever.' -Thomas Jefferson GOD'S JUSTICE has Awakened, and is now Present.
So, reparations when?
tom cotton is the DEVIL that the Bible ios talking about, REVELATION 2:10Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the DEVIL shall cast some of you into prison, WHO OWNS THE PRISON SYSTEM
Somebody fire him
There is nothing controversial about Cotton’s statement. TMZ employs so really dumb people.
Boy the devil always reveals himself one way or another
And Tom Cotton is necessarily evil.
What is controversial about his statement?
Necessary for who?
That’s fake news. Can you read?!
The devil's advocate lives on 👹☠
That’s N0T what he said!!
It was always a moral issue though
It's 2020 and the GOP is defending the confederacy and slavery. Just think about that.
It was not a necessary evil. It was a choice to build the nation at the expense of humans based on the color of their skin.
Jackass
He is nuts. The forced labor is essential to all tyrants who want to enrich themselves at the expense of enslaved people. Repugnant idea.
You racist white folks keep looking for a soft cushion that will never be there. Admit it, apologize, make amends, and let’s work on healing.
“So, in essence, what he's saying is...”
Well the man 👨🏾 name is Cotton 👖 Bein a cotton 👔 picker wouldn’t sound so bad to him I’mma let the Hood Know he racist blm BlackLivesMatter 🐃
If only people would be this concerned with the fact that slavery was on this continent before the US was founded and was participated in by the Spanish, Portuguese and Native American Indians as well. So, you can't just blame the white man.
Yea? I say they was just some lazy MFs with the money 2 pursue their goal, while they made ethnic groups life HELL, those who weren't murdered in the process 😏 I say F em 🤷🏾
🖕🏽🖕🏽
Yo baby yo
He’s right about one word and it isn’t necessary
Weak minded people will not look up what he quoted. One person to have that opinion was Lincoln. Why not call out the slavery still in practice today, in Africa, in China, in India. Keep wearing those Nike's.
slavery was never a necessary it was an evil chosen to commit. like keep confederate flags, statues, bases named after confederate leaders, and that confederate mountain carving.
Everyone hates Columbus but forgets where they’d be without him 😂😂😂😳😳
Says a Rich LAZY WHITE MAN TomCottonAR
Where was this energy when nick Cannon was licking hitlers balls?
Necessary vs paying people for their labor...dude is a f*cking clown and the reason why I could never support the republican...ran by a bunch of racist now. Which is sad because it was started by the abolitionist moment.
Horseshit headline Harvey! He didn’t say that at all.
Were rapes, Beatings, and forced incest necessary too ? Stop whitewashing history Tim 😒 Slavery wasn’t necessary.
Lie.
Ffs idiot
You think they will tear the pyramids down now because slaves built them
So is Tom Cotton going tolay reparations then? Since he feels it was a necessary evil. I am just asking for a friend.
No evil is necessary
White guys, especially with the last name Cotton , should refrain from opining on slavery other than to condemn it wholly.
To be honest we have all been slaves at some point in history. Native Americans had slaves before white men set foot here. And African slave's sold their own people like centuries before why should only one group be held responsible for it? Slavery was common no matter race.
SenTomCotton Bozo! What an ignorant comment.
The Potato Famine, The Spanish Flu, The Great Depression, The Holocaust, Kennedy’s Assassination, MLK’s Assassination, 911, The Coronavirus, etc. were all necessary evils then...
Not our 2nd president John Adams.
he shouldnt give the juvenile racebaiting likes of TMZ these easy headline bites. if u want a real discussion about slavery lets not cherry pick parts of history that suit an agenda. white people sure didnt start slavery Africans were enslaving each other for thousands of years
Many of them struggled with it; it is in their writings. This is a fact. How is this news?
An absofuckinglutely insane comment. I’m sickened. ignorance blm BLMMOVEMENT Equality DumpTrump2020 VoteBiden2020 humanrights CivilRights OneLove
we if it was necessary, then a debt is owed is it not?
With the last name like cotton we wouldn’t expect anything else🤦🏻♀️🙄
better than the yahoo headline, but still misleading. the corporate press is the enemy of the people.
Which it was and something many of them struggled with and saw the hypocrisy in the constitution. But go on ruffle feathers for clicks
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