“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”
If you didn’t know this was in the preamble to the Marriage Vow statement signed by a couple of the republican candidates for the presidency of these fine United States of America. I said was because the social conservative Iowa group, Family Leader, has since retracted it from the opening of the pledge.
I don’t really know what to say. I am sure someone could look up the statistics and find out whether this is true or not. I don’t think I care to though. This is perhaps one of the nastiest, disgusting and naive things to come out of the camp of crazy in about a week.
The suggestion that black children born into slavery were better off in terms of family life than today’s black children is at best stupid. Apparent the authors of this don’t consider the rapes, the murders, the starvation, the forced separation from your family very important. Nor do they consider the century old adverse effects it has on a culture and the nation itself worth noting. It was more than “disastrous” it was pretty much close to genocide.
Even worse the statement tries to tie the “USA’s first African-American president” to the plight in that community. It’s as if it is President Obama’s fault somehow. Even worse than that Next Gingrinch didn't sign it making him almost look like a decent human.
I'm sure that had something to do with the word marriage though.
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