Stacey Abrams Schools Tom Cotton: 'Evil Is Evil'

I've been watching all of the different ways people are pushing back on Senator Tom Cotton's absurd remarks that slavery was a necessary evil, but none have resonated as deeply as Stacey Abrams' response on The Reid Report.

To refresh our memories, Tom Cotton came up with a lot of argle-bargle when confronted with the reaction to his claim that slavery was a "necessary evil."

What I said is that many founders believed that only with the union and the constitution could we put slavery on the path to its ultimate extinction.

Which is not at all what he said. Here is what he said:

As the founding fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction.

I should note that he is adamant about trying to ban the 1619 Project from being taught in schools, which flies in the face of what he is saying. As the descendant of slaveholders, Cotton is simply justifying that which he believes.

Joy Reid asked Stacey Abrams to respond to this word hackery, and she did not hold back. Read or watch every word.

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