“As the Founding Fathers said, it [slavery] was the necessary evil upon which the union was built,” he told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette over the weekend. ADWhen Hannah-Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in the spring, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) ADWhether Cotton’s statements about slavery, the founders and history are accurate sparked another wave of debate. ADADLater in the evening on Twitter, Cotton insisted that he was merely rehashing a historical perspective, rather than stating his own. And, as some pointed out, Cotton’s line about slavery being “built into” the country supports her core argument after all.

Source: Washington Post July 27, 2020 11:36 UTC