https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-tom-cotton-tries-to-clarify-slavery-comment-calls-out-fake-news
Cotton was interviewed in
the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and spoke about a bill that he sponsored
that seeks to deny federal funds to schools that incorporate the New
York Times’ controversial ‘1619 Project’ into its teaching curriculum.
Cotton
told the paper, “We have to study the history of slavery and its role
and impact on the development of our country because otherwise we can’t
understand our country. As the Founding Fathers said, it was the
necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built
in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate
extinction.”
