It's not her words. She was just the first to sign it and anyone wanting funds will need to sign it.
The slavery part is linked to this: http://www.americanvalues.org/pdfs/consequences_of_marriage.pdf Ultimately, these problems likely have deep roots in the unique, sometimes traumatic, historical experience of the African American community. Orlando Patterson has eloquently argued that slavery and Jim Crow scarred male-female relations among African Americans in ways that continue to shape current marriages particularly in the ways that slavery denuded Black men of their proper role as husbands and fathers, fostered promiscuity, and wove violence and domination into the fabric of male-female sexual relations among Blacks (and interracial relationships).202 This cultural legacy, and the unique sex ratio of African Americans, may help explain why studies suggest that infidelity, domestic violence, and mistrust of the opposite sex are particularly salient problems in the African American world, even after taking into account the effects of economic factors.203 In Pattersons words, The nation as a whole, and Afro-Americans in particular, are still paying the ethnocidal price of slavery and the neo-dulotic Jim Crow system.204 . 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:340105 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
