Of course, Bachmann is not known as a scholar on this particular topic. She proved that with her statements about the founding fathers working tirelessly to end slavery. Um, not so much.
As to her recent statement, I read it directly as a slap at Obama, somehow blaming him for the tragic state of traditional nuclear families in the African American community (and through all communities in fact), and a typical "a little loose on the facts" statement more about her base's feelings and truthiness than truth. On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:13 PM, G Money <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Thanks. >> >> The porn reference is to protect our children from porn. That's already a >> law. >> >> > Bachmann's intent was probably to draw on the emotional appeal that slavery > has on people to make them think "wow, if something was better during > slavery than it is now for African Ameicans, how it is now must REALLY > suck". > > But that won't be how the comment ultimately plays out. People like Gel, who > can't read, come up with their predictable reactions...and it just snowballs > from there. It's also quite likely that Jerry is right and her basic > contention isn't even correct to begin with. (luckily for her, it's > impossible to prove one way or the other). > > Anyway......she's not running on a pro-slavery platform....but she probably > wasn't wise for bringing it up. And she's certainly not wise for supporting > the teaching of Creationism in a biology classroom :) > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340104 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
