BTW that Family Values group removed that section of their pledge over the weekend. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conservative-marriage-pledge-group-apologizes-for-slavery-reference/2011/07/09/gIQANT3C6H_story.html?tid=wp_ipad
>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 > >. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:340296 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
