Try refreshing your browser, or GOP Senator Tom Cotton says slavery was 'necessary evil,' assails New York Times history project Back to videoIn American schools, the year 1776 is often labelled as the country’s official birthdate, but the Times’ 1619 Project re-pins the birth of the nation to when the first slave ships sailed onto American shores, carrying the Black slaves who were forced to help build America. Cotton last week introduced legislation that would cut federal funding for the new program, which won a Pulitzer prize for media commentary. “The entire premise of the New York Times’ factually, historically flawed 1619 Project… is that America is at root, a systemically racist country to the core and irredeemable,” Cotton said in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. America is a great and noble country founded on the proposition that all mankind is created equal. “If chattel slavery — heritable, generational, permanent, race-based slavery where it was legal to rape, torture, and sell human beings for profit — were a ‘necessary evil’ as (Sen. Tom Cotton)says, it’s hard to imagine what cannot be justified if it is a means to an end,” Nicole Hanna-Jones tweeted.

Source: National Post July 27, 2020 14:20 UTC