Bachmann signs pledge saying black kids better off in 1860
Rep. Bachmann signed a Republican social policy pledge that says African-American children born into slavery had stronger families than during the Obama administration...
Behold the constituencies Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is willing to sell out to court the far-right Christian vote in Iowa: Muslims, feminists, the LGBT community, anyone irked by the idea that homosexuality is “a public health risk,” and the porn industry.
These attributes of the far-right social policy pledge Bachmann signed yesterday have been widely reported, but Jack & Jill Politics points out that the document may alienate the black community as well. 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.
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