“As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction.”
In other words, he himself said that it was the necessary evil. He didn’t say that the Founding Fathers believed it, he said that it was, he stated this as a bald faced fact.
I don’t know what his beliefs are.
On this specific subject, I’m talking about idiomatic English, where using “as” in that way means agreement with the quote. I’m sure you’ll get to it at some point in your class.
Yes. I hear him saying slavery was necessary for the nation.
If you asked a black person or even someone with basic human values, it’s just inconceivable to get an answer like that back. It’s a white privilege to say it by definition.
His use of “as” here is an agreement with that which follows. He agrees that it was necessary, and that it wouldn’t last. He sounds like a real douche-fucking-canoe. I’m glad he’s not my representative.
Oh, hell. Let’s leave it to future generations.
Good idea. It’ll make them feel more involved.
Cotton and Trump would buy slaves tomorrow if someone were selling.
Hell, if it came out tomorrow that those two had a few slaves hidden away right now, how shocked would you really be?
With Trump, I’d be shocked he managed to keep it a secret and not mention it in one of his tweets.
Why was it a necessary evil? Large parts of the country were settled and developed without slavery. So it seems to me like it was an evil of choice. The southern states could have chosen to abolish slavery if they had wanted to; other parts of the country did. They chose to keep slavery not because it was necessary but because it was convenient for the slave owners.
The junior senator from Kentucky weighs in with his thoughts on the matter.
I have no disagreement with you I don’t believe it was a necessary evil although it was convenient at a very racist period in America. I simply disagree that he was personally endorsing this view and not attributing it to the founding fathers.
As Snowboarder_Bo said, take an English class.
Sorry I’m like school in Summer.
That makes no sense either: “school in Summer” isn’t “a moronic troll”.
Does Snowboarder Bottom have a hardon for me?
@discobot fortune
It is decidedly so
Game, set, match, Discobot only gets it wrong 1/1,000,000!!! WOOT!!!
Why the fuck is this jackass running unopposed? (Is there anyone from Arkansas on the board? What the hell happened?)
Is there any grassroots anything for him to be voted out in November?
For those who don’t know Mr. Cotton very well:
NOTE: I added Miss Butts first name at the beginning of the quote. Helpful bolding also mine.
Not sure the founders thought of
Slavery as “evil” per se.
As Dr Johnson famously pointed out How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Washington did actually free his slaves in his will, and at least in private expressed uneasiness about the morality of slavery in light of the ideals of the Revolution. Jefferson was undoubtedly a racist, who believed the “black race” to be inferior to the “white race” and who owned and exploited people in various ways (perhaps most infamously Sally Hemings). But he also did seem to pretty consistently claim that slavery was a moral wrong (even though he did not believe the Africans who were enslaved to be equal to Europeans), and made at least some attempts at trying to end slavery. In general, the founding generation (or at least its most prominent leaders) were hypocritical, and unable or unwilling to bring themselves to end slavery, even as many of them hoped (privately or even publicly) that somehow, eventually, slavery would be ended.
The notion that slavery was a “positive good” was more associated with a later generation–the term is usually associated with John C. Calhoun’s speech in 1837–and attitudes about slavery went from condemnation (however halfhearted and mealy-mouthed and ineffectual) at the dawn of the republic, to more radically unapologetic defenses of slavery as something “beneficial” (allegedly even to the slaves) that should exist “in all future time” and as an institution which ought to serve as the “cornerstone” of a government.