“In recent months, some school districts have announced plans to use the New York Times’s 1619 project curriculum, a spinoff of the special magazine issue to teach American history’s inextricable ties to the institution of slavery. But there’s one US senator who is objecting in the strongest, but also possibly stupidest terms. That would be Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, who over the weekend appeared to agree with the founding fathers that slavery was a necessary evil upon which the union was built.
Cotton also called to defund the planned 1619 curriculum, which he dismissed as ‘racially divisive’. Hold up, hold up. So, Senator Cotton thinks this curriculum is racially divisive? This curriculum? Yo, you know what’s really racially divisive? Slavery. This guy thinks racial division doesn’t exist until slavery gets taught in school.
Even if I chose to believe that Cotton was just quoting the founding fathers and not actually ‘defending slavery’ – which is just not something a US senator should do, even if his name is Cotton – the senator was still speaking nonsense. If you dig deeper and you take Cotton at his word, he believes that the United States could not have become the country that it is without slavery.
Well, that’s the same thing that the 1619 Project says, so why is he fighting them? If Cotton had that strong an opposition to a clear-eyed look at the legacy of slavery in America, the Daily Show had just the solution: a faux-lesson plan called the ‘Tom Cotton Lesson Plan for Slavery – the only lesson plan that teaches slavery without mentioning race’.” —Trevor Noah
http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-hulse-collected-poems-1985-2015.html
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