How Tom Cotton accidentally told an appalling truth

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/27/opinions/tom-cotton-slavery-comments-1619-project-bailey/index.html

It's a belief likely held by millions of White Americans and also by a number of white historians. It's just that Cotton said it more plainly and directly than most. It's that ability -- White Americans' penchant for compartmentalizing and rationalizing when it comes to issues of race -- that has made it possible for a president as inept and racist as Donald Trump to have any chance of being re-elected.