Tom Cotton Wants To Withhold Funds From Schools Using '1619 Project' On Slavery, 'Left Wing Garbage'
'Tom Cotton wants to withhold funds from schools that teach lessons based on NYTs 1619 Project.' By Daniel Villarreal, The New Civil Rights Movement, July 26, 2020.
Tom Cotton, a Republican U.S. Senator representing Arkansas, has filed a bill that would withhold federal funding to any schools that teach The 1619 Project, a Pulitzer-prize winning piece of in-depth journalism from The New York Times published in 2019 that explores the United Statess legacy of slavery.
Cottons so-called Saving American History Act of 2020 would punish schools that teach lessons based on The 1619 Project by making them ineligible for federal professional development grants.
The New York Timess 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 wrote. Not a single cent of federal funding should go to indoctrinate young Americans with this left-wing garbage.
After being lambasted for his June 2020 New York Times opinion piece suggesting that the U.S. military forces should be used against racial justice protesters an article that was later pulled for not meeting the papers editorial standards Cotton wrote, [The New York Times] is a propaganda bullhorna super PAC for the Democratic Party, the 1619 Project, and other revolutionary causes. Perhaps it should rebrand as The New Woke Times....
https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/tom-cotton-wants-to-withhold-funds-from-schools-that-teach-lessons-based-on-nyts-racially-divisive-1619-project/
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(160,527 posts)Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil' in attack on New York Times' 1619 Project
Republican gives interview to Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Senator wants to save US history from New York Times
Bryan Armen Graham
@bryanagraham
Published on Sun 26 Jul 2020 17.54 EDT
The Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton has called the enslavement of millions of African people the necessary evil upon which the union was built.
Cotton, widely seen as a possible presidential candidate in 2024, made the comment in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published on Sunday.
He was speaking in support of legislation he introduced on Thursday that aims to prohibit use of federal funds to teach the 1619 Project, an initiative from the New York Times that reframes US history around August 1619 and the arrival of slave ships on American shores for the first time.
Cottons Saving American History Act of 2020 and would prohibit the use of federal funds to teach the 1619 Project by K-12 schools or school districts, according to a statement from the senators office.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/26/tom-cotton-slavery-necessary-evil-1619-project-new-york-times
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(43,049 posts)miserable life wanking under a life-sized picture of Bill and Hillary.
And then we expel Arkansas from the union for electing this brain dead bottomfish.