Sen. Cotton is coming under fire for recent comments he made about US history in which he cited the Founding Fathers as saying slavery was a 'necessary evil.'
, proposes that schools reframe U.S. history by marking the nation’s founding as 1619, the year the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia. Cotton, however, told the newspaper that he’s proposing legislation that would withhold federal funding to schools that embrace the curriculum.
"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," Cotton said in the interview.Sign Up
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