Sen. Tom Cotton has 1619 problems and revision ain't one

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Tom Cotton wants to tax 'liberal' universities for teaching history accurately

May 11, 2021

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) once referred to slavery as 'the necessary evil upon which the union was built.'

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) appeared on Fox News on Monday night to give the right-wing network an exclusive on his proposal to tax the endowments of "liberal" colleges and universities.

On "Fox News Primetime," Cotton told host Brian Kilmeade, "I'm going to introduce legislation tomorrow, that I'm introducing to the American people tonight on your show, that's going to tax endowments of the biggest, richest, and frankly most liberal universities in America."

Cotton said that money in university endowments, charitable donations to the institutions held in funds that generate income used for capital investment, research, scholarships, teachers' salaries, and other purposes, amounts to "tens of billions of dollars sitting in their endowment. They pay almost nothing in federal taxes, and they charge full freight to kids to take Zoom classes, and Brian, this is at a time when they are also actively indoctrinating students to hate America, to believe it's an oppressive, racist nation

 

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We Found the Textbooks of Senators Who Oppose The 1619 Project and Suddenly Everything Makes Sense

Tom Cotton, a 1995 graduate of Dardanelle High School, likely learned his American History from The American Pageant. While Cengage is a relative newcomer in the textbook industry, its high school history book, The American Pageant was used across the country for many years. The text is nuanced and thorough, even in how it presents slavery...most of the time.

One of the realities of the textbook industry is, because of the UDC’s influence over school districts and boards of education in the South, publishers must choose between telling the truth or bowing out of the textbook market in one-quarter of the country. Cotton’s text never explicitly says the Civil War was about slavery or even refers to it as a “Civil War.” Instead, it carefully couches the “War for Southern Independence” as a clash that had to do with tariffs, Northern overreach, blah, blah, blah. The book also doesn’t quote any of the actual declarations of secession, only noting that the “rebel” Jefferson Davis told the despotic “King” Abraham Lincoln: “All we ask is to be let alone.”

And, of course, the textbook describes the period after the Civil War:

Unbending loyalty to “ole Massa” prompted many slaves to help their owners resist the Union Armies. Blacks blocked the door of the “big house” with their bodies or stashed the plantation silverware under mattresses in their own humble huts, where it would be safe from the plundering “bluebellies”...Newly emancipated slaves sometimes eagerly accepted the invitation of Union troops to join in the pillaging of their master’s possessions.

 

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The 1619 project, as a historian, provides a strong basis into understanding racial capitalism, racial inequality, and the foundation for reparations.

It bothers them that their beloved country NEEDED black people to sustain itself. It bothers them that without us, they fail.

 

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We Found the Textbooks of Senators Who Oppose The 1619 Project and Suddenly Everything Makes Sense

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"Unbending loyalty to ol Massa" was actually in American History textbooks.
WOW!
And Tom Cotton is in his 40s, so it wasn't that long ago.

 

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The 1619 project, as a historian, provides a strong basis into understanding racial capitalism, racial inequality, and the foundation for reparations.

It bothers them that their beloved country NEEDED black people to sustain itself. It bothers them that without us, they fail.

There was talk of a series of public debates. I would have liked to see it. Especially the main point of contention, the reasons why the 13 colonies declared independence.

 

[jwinfield]

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"Unbending loyalty to ol Massa" was actually in American History textbooks.
WOW!
And Tom Cotton is in his 40s, so it wasn't that long ago.

Some of the politicians the article says graduated a year or two before integration.

Imagine going to school before black people could be your classmate and thinking race isn't an issue

 

[Spence]

So we are just going to skip over the fact that the 13 colonies named keeping slavery as one of the reasons they broke off from Britain who were making moves to abolish in the late 18th century huh Tom Cotton?

 

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Some of the politicians the article says graduated a year or two before integration.

Imagine going to school before black people could be your classmate and thinking race isn't an issue

We were discussing Black/African American Studies recently in a different thread. Schomburg and Carter G Woodson were quoted as saying that they'd prefer for African American history to be placed within American History curricula than as stand alone subjects.

“This is the meaning of Negro History Week. It is not so much a Negro History Week as it is a History week. We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has influenced the development of civilization.”

—Carter Godwin Woodson, “The Celebration of Negro History Week, 1927,” Journal of Negro History, April 1927