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Tom Cotton was doing his usual cow-towing to Herr
Trump and he lied or was grossly mistaken when he said the
founding fathers uttered such a heinous remark.
For the record, there is no such remark by any of the
founding fathers as Tom Cotton tries to furiously walk back
such racist drivel.
For an unrepentant historical revisionist, such as
Senator Cotton, his view of Black people is harmful, vile
and clearly shows that Tom Cotton is woefully ignorant of
American history.
Imagine even trying to get your mouth and lips to
utter such doggerel and you, at the same time, are trying to
sound like an intellectual. It just goes to show you that
being a Harvard law grad is no guarantee of having any
common sense or racial sensibilities.
For Tom Cotton, this is what slavery being, “a
necessary evil” can easily connote:
(1) human trafficking for the good of the nascent US of A
was acceptable because it was referring to black people,
whom as we know, were not equal in humanity to white people.
(2) rape of the female slave was permitted since a
“necessary evil” covers a host of wrongs including white
slavers raping black women and disregarding the progeny
thereof. That means, white rapist slavers were enslaving
their own sons and daughters…but mind you, it was for the
good of the country!
(3) it was perfectly permissible under the doctrine of “a
necessary evil” that renumeration or wages for millions of
black people and over hundreds of years was denied because
due to that free slave labor, the US of A was able to amass
a critical amount of capital by which to become a world
superpower.
(4) the implementation of Jim Crow laws and the thousands of
lynchings, plantation tortures and the selling of family
members was also covered under this “necessary evil” that
Senator Cotton speaks of.
(5) the rise of the domestic terrorist groups, The KKK and
the White Citizens Council, was needed in order to ensure
that this “necessary evil” continued
in order to fear those who were deemed as mere chattel and
not people.
(6) the ongoing legacy of slavery resulting in segregation,
discrimination and outright voter suppression was merely
inconvenient collateral damage as a result of this
“necessary evil”.
(7) the word, “necessary,” bespeaks of being required for a
cause or a purpose and for Senator Cotton, that stained and
ugly purpose was to elevate white people as superior over
black people and thereby to give them cover for racism, both
blatant and subtle.
(8) the word “evil” bespeaks of a malignant heart and
accompanying putrid thoughts that were not reined in by
either the white slavers and the early colonial states that
explicitly made laws that tamped down any dissent from the
oppressed.
(9) Senator Cotton, like so many delusional white people who
are intentionally clueless about their history, wants to
sound civil and rational about his words but when confronted
with their abusive intents, he tries to retract those words
by saying, “I did not say that”!
(10) When Tom Cotton goes on to wax about the beautiful
language in the Declaration of Independence, he, like so
many ignorant white people, simply glosses over the stated
words of “Liberty and Freedom for all” and curiously denies
how those words cannot apply to people in bondage.
The writers of the Declaration of Independence (all
white) never intended for Native Americans or people of
color to be deemed as being the equal benefactors of those
words of liberty and freedom.
There was never a time that White America purposely set
the early American democratic dinner table with placemats,
chairs and forks and knives for black people or for them to
drink out of the same water jug.
Never.
It has always been a constant struggle to make White
America strive to even attempt to live up to those
liberating words in that empowering document.
So now we have another senator issuing a lot of blather
and gibberish about a subject that he knows not of and
pretending to sound as if he is some fount of wisdom.
Slavery…a necessary evil. Think on that for five
minutes.
Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com
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