Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil' in attack on New York Times' 1619 Project
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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”.
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US senator describes slavery as 'necessary evil'
Arkansas's Tom Cotton says he rejects the idea that the US is systemically racist to its core.
GOP Sen. Tom Cotton argues America's founders believed slavery to be a 'necessary evil'
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) isn't opposed to having students study America's history of slavery, he told the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in an interview published Sunday. But he proposed legislation that would cut funding from any public school that taught a curriculum based on The New York Times' 1619 Project, he said, because the "factually, historically flawed" collection of essays is based on the premise "that America is at root, a systemically r…
US Senator Describes Slavery as 'Necessary Evil', Irked Twitterati Lash Out at Him
The Republican senator said that slavery was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as (Abraham) Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction.
Republican Senator Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil'
Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton described slavery as "a necessary evil" in a published attack on a New York Times initiative to make slavery the focal point of American history for U.S. schools.
