Trevor Noah wasn’t exactly surprised that Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) had a problem teaching “Project 1619” in schools.
“There is a US senator who opposes in the strongest and possibly the most stupid terms,” Daily program The host said before diving into Cotton’s recent comments in which he seemed to agree with the Founding Fathers that slavery was a “necessary evil upon which the union was built.” The senator also called the proposed curriculum “racially divisive.”
“Wait, wait,” said Noah. “So Senator Cotton thinks this curriculum is racially divisive? Do you know what is really racially divisive? Slavery.”
The host continued to criticize Cotton for “thinking that racial division does not exist until slavery is taught at school.” But even if he chooses to believe that Cotton wasn’t actually “advocating slavery,” that “it’s not something a United States senator should do, even if his name is Cotton,” Noah joked, he still doesn’t understand why he opposes. “The Project 1619” with great vehemence.
“If you go deep and take Cotton’s word, he believes the United States could not have become the country without slavery,” Noah explained. “Well that’s the same thing as ‘The 1619 Project’ says, so why is he fighting them?”
The host ended his segment by introducing a new ad for “Tom Cotton’s Lesson Plan for Slavery, the only lesson plan that teaches slavery without mentioning race.”
“With Senator Cotton, your students will learn that in 1619, some Americans were slaves to other Americans, that over time, more slaves were brought from one of the seven continents at random, and that the Civil War ended slavery of black and white. ” “The narrator of the ad said.” Students will also learn that all of this happened a long time ago, which means that it has no relevance at all to what is happening today. ”
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