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Showing Original Post only (View all)Sen. Tom Cotton Calls Slavery Nation's 'Necessary Evil' In Shocking Interview [View all]
Source: Huffington Post
The senator told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that slavery was the evil upon which the union was built.
He made the stunning comment while discussing how slavery should be taught in schools.
We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country because otherwise we cant understand our country, Cotton said. As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built.
Instead of portraying America as an irredeemably corrupt, rotten and racist country, the nation should be viewed as an imperfect and flawed land, but the greatest and noblest country in the history of mankind, he added.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-cotton-interview-slavery-necessary-evil_n_5f1e4101c5b69fd4730e31ad
Well, there you have it. This is why we need the massive civil rights movement that has developed.