Tom Cotton Introduces Bill to Prohibit Federal Funding for Schools Using '1619 Project' Curriculum

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) introduced a law on Thursday that would prohibit federal funding for schools that incorporate curriculum from the New York Times‘s “1619 Project.”

The 1619 Project, named after the year when colonists first brought slaves to the U.S., attempts to retell American history by emphasizing the importance of slavery in the country’s earliest years. However, historians have criticized the project for basic “factual errors” and a ” displacement of historical understanding by ideology.” (One example of such an error in the project is the assertion that the colonies revolted from British rule in order to preserve slavery.)

“The New York Times’s 1619 Project is a racially divisive, revisionist account of history that denies the noble principles of freedom and equality on which our nation was founded,” Cotton said in a statement. “Not a single cent of federal funding should go to indoctrinate young Americans with this left-wing garbage.”

According to Cotton, the bill would not affect federal funding allocated to low-income or special-needs students.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tom-cotton-introduces-bill-prohibit-192646324.html

Clearly unconstitutional but Cottonmouth is playing to his knuckle dragging base.

[madaboutharry]

1. What an asshole!

These Confederates need to shut up already.

[mr_lebowski]

2. Is it an error though, Yahoo?

I found this on the interwebz ...

"As early as 1776, the House of Commons debated a motion 'that the slave trade is contrary to the laws of God and the rights of men'."

Granted slave trade wasn't abolished in the UK until some 20 years after the Revolution, but ... is it possible the possible abolition of slavery by England entered into the thinking of some of those that fomented the Revolution?

I don't know either way, but it sure doesn't seem impossible.

[LeftInTX]

3. Sounds like Ted Cruz

[Patterson]

8. He's the Ted Cruz of Arkansas.

[struggle4progress]

4. "Just take them on field trips to Mammy's Cupboard!"

[gratuitous]

5. Does Cotton really have his eye on 2024?

Because he's building an impressive body of dumbass work. Does he not think his letter to ayatollahs will be a liability? Meddling in school curricula? This bobble-throated slapdick (h/t Charlie Pierce) is fooling only himself.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Yes, yes, he does.

[Penn Voter]

6. These Confederates

are not even stopping at the 1950s or 1850s. They want to take us back even further!

[justgamma]

7. "revisionist account of history"

Sort of like the Texans who wanted to change the textbooks to say laborers instead of slaves?