Michelle Bachmann Signs Pledge that Says Black Children Better Off During Slavery

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Michelle Bachmann Signs Pledge that Says Black Children Better Off During Slavery
8 Jul 2011 Author: Cheryl Contee (Jill Tubman)

In Iowa, there’s a social conservative pledge called “The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family” that is anti-abortion, anti-same sex marriage, anti-divorce etc etc that GOP candidates are being urged to sign. It’s got some pretty rigid-sounding stuff, but there’s also this extra-special piece:

Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.

Given that families were broken up regularly for sales during slavery and that rape by masters was pretty common, this could not be more offensive. I mean, putting aside the statistics on this, which are likely off-base, I could not be more angry. When will Republicans inquire with actual Black people whether or not we’re ok with invoking slavery to score cheap political points? It has to stop. It is the opposite of persuasive and is another reason Republicans repel us...

http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2011/07/michelle-bachmann-signs-pledge-that-says-black-children-better-off-during-slavery/

[lynne]

1. The devil is in the details. Its the year - 1860 - that makes this statement -

- regarding how many slave children were raised in mother/father families borderline realistic. The Civil War began the next year and emancipation was in 1863. Mothers and father were then able to reconnect and raise their children together. A review of the 1870 census would be needed to prove the point, though.

This statement couldn't be made using the year 1790 or 1800 or probably any other year before 1860 or so due to the fact that families were constantly being sold and split up.

[MH1]

3. what also makes it 'realistic' is the current vastly disproportionate prosecution of AA men

which raises huge barriers to healthy family structures when compared with whites, who are arrested and prosecuted far less for even the same behaviors.

a book recommended to me, that I haven't had a chance to read yet, that describes this problem is called The New Jim Crow.

[indepat]

2. Michelle, my belle, are you plagued with an incurable hoof-in-mouth diarrhea-of-the-mouth-like

malady? :patriot:

[rpannier]

4. Maybe Bachman's campaign hasn't derailed Palin's afterall

Somewhere Sarah is probably smiling...
...and winking at news crews because she doesn't know the answer to "What did you have for breakfast this morning?

[sakabatou]

5. *facepalm*

Now, will the Dems use this gift or fuck it up... again?

[krispos42]

6. I'm pretty sure that a white child born into freedom in 1860...

...was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was a white baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American president, too.


Yay, unregulated capitalism. Thanks for making the economy such that people need 2 workers (with 3 jobs) to attempt to live a middle-class lifestyle.

[ashling]

7. My stolen daughters - poem by John Greenleaf Whittier

By John Greenleaf Whittier


GONE, gone,—sold and gone,
To the rice-swamp dank and lone.
Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings,
Where the noisome insect stings,
Where the fever demon strews 5
Poison with the falling dews,
Where the sickly sunbeams glare
Through the hot and misty air;
Gone, gone,—sold and gone,
To the rice-swamp dank and lone, 10
From Virginia’s hills and waters;
Woe is me, my stolen daughters!

Gone, gone,—sold and gone,
To the rice-swamp dank and lone.
There no mother’s eye is near them, 15
There no mother’s ear can hear them;
Never, when the torturing lash
Seams their back with many a gash,
Shall a mother’s kindness bless them,
Or a mother’s arms caress them. 20
Gone, gone,—sold and gone,
To the rice-swamp dank and lone,
From Virginia’s hills and waters;
Woe is me, my stolen daughters!

Gone, gone,—sold and gone, 25
To the rice-swamp dank and lone.
O, when weary, sad, and slow,
From the fields at night they go,
Faint with toil, and racked with pain,
To their cheerless homes again, 30
There no brother’s voice shall greet them;
There no father’s welcome meet them.
Gone, gone,—sold and gone,
To the rice-swamp dank and lone,
From Virginia’s hills and waters; 35
Woe is me, my stolen daughters!

Gone, gone,—sold and gone,
To the rice-swamp dank and lone.
From the tree whose shadow lay
On their childhood’s place of play; 40
From the cool spring where they drank;
Rock, and hill, and rivulet bank;
From the solemn house of prayer,
And the holy counsels there;
Gone, gone,—sold and gone, 45
To the rice-swamp dank and lone,
From Virginia’s hills and waters;
Woe is me, my stolen daughters!

Gone, gone,—sold and gone,
To the rice-swamp dank and lone; 50
Toiling through the weary day,
And at night the spoiler’s prey.
Oh, that they had earlier died,
Sleeping calmly, side by side,
Where the tyrant’s power is o’er, 55
And the fetter galls no more!
Gone, gone,—sold and gone,
To the rice-swamp dank and lone,
From Virginia’s hills and waters;
Woe is me, my stolen daughters! 60

Gone, gone,—sold and gone,
To the rice-swamp dank and lone.
By the holy love He beareth;
By the bruisëd reed He spareth;
Oh, may He, to whom alone 65
All their cruel wrongs are known,
Still their hope and refuge prove,
With a more than mother’s love.
Gone, gone,—sold and gone,
To the rice-swamp dank and lone, 70
From Virginia’s hills and waters;
Woe is me, my stolen daughters!

[FourScore]

11. That is so sad!

:cry:

[66 dmhlt]

8. MB buys the lie: "Yeah, slavery maybe bad. But black kids had TWO parents."

[rpannier]

9. and they weren't homeless

It was a two-fer.
:sarcasm:

People who follow her with admiration are pathetic

[lunatica]

10. Pat Buchanan tried to justify slavery by saying "they're here now aren't they?"

Or some such. It's one way of spotting a racist. They claim the people they've historically wronged are better off because of what's been done to them.

It's like Ike claiming he made Tina Turner famous because he created her by beating her up.

[Maru Kitteh]

12. K and freakin' R.

[me b zola]

13. Sweet Jesus

Beyond focusing on the ugliness of Bachman, is the fact that more and more conservative minded people are saying these things out loud and instilling it in their kids. These people live in our neighborhoods and their kids go to school with ours. What have we become--or reverted back to?

[Quantess]

14. Good grief!