Not when there are living children of slaves who remember the stories.
The article's an interesting one.
Meanwhile, Tom Cotton continues his quest to push the history of slavery into a corner. Much of this country was built on slavery. Following the fall of that vile institution, the freed slaves and their descendants suffered discrimination of all kinds, much of which continues to this day. If people are going to pretend, as Cotton seems to, that the 13th Amendment fixed everything, then there will never be a fair reckoning of it.
An easy example that the 15th Amendment was ignored throughout much of the country for almost a century, until Congress, over vociferous opposition, passed the Voting Rights Act, among other legislation. The opposition to voting rights continues to this day.
Pretending that the past is the past and should be shoved away is foolish.
(And this)
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If Tom Cotton really believes slavery was a "necessary evil" then perhaps he and his entire family might want to field test that theory by putting on some chains and picking some vegetables for free for a few generations.
It would seem that he actually believes that it was necessary for others but not for him and his, and that his political fortune would benefit from others not hearing much about how it really was.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Faulkner: The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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