Comedy | July 10, 2011 | 20 comments

Michele Bachmann is Nostalgic for Slavery Days

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So Michele Bachmann has signed a pledge to support families that’s got some very creepy stuff in it. In particular, there’s this:
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  • nobsartist
  • Warren_Merrill
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      Warren_Merrill  
    • The person who wrote the headlines should never criticize Fox. It's incredibly misleading. We could say Joeeddy Lies! Bachmann said children from the slavery era were more likely to grow up with two parents than the social welfare system we have today. It's a condemnation on the rules behind social welfare today.

    • 11 months ago
  • Toughth
  • savvy7
  • alovejoy
  • Joeydee44
  • bike10
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  
    • Hate to tell you but in reading the link it supports just what Bachman said.

      ' “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.”

      Others have noted just how brain-curdlingly offensive this is, and I agree 100% with what they’ve written. But I want to pause for a second and look at the numbers behind the claim.

      The pledge cites an invalid source – the 1880 census doesn’t have great data on slave family structures, it turns out — but the standard estimate for the number of slave families broken up by the sale of children away from one or both parents is about one in three. With life expectancy so much lower in the 19th century than it is today, I’d guess that about half of all slave families in the antebellum US were ones in which children were living with both of their parents.

      And yes, the percentage of two-parent households in the black community today is a little lower than that.'

      Nothing supports the claim that she is "Nostalgic for Slavery Days". She merely stated that a child born as a slave in 1860 was more likely to be raised in a 2 parent home than now. The article agrees in the last sentence I copied and pasted as seen above. joeedy is wrong in his/her conclusion which leads me to wonder why it was posted. I would suggest it is an another lying hit piece done by those wanting to discredit Bachman in any manner at all. A continuation of the character assassination efforts so enjoyed by the left. Pretty sorry you must admit but that is the statist movement.

    • 11 months ago
  • of10rot10
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      of10rot10  
    • Paratus:

      Are you serious? "... than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President.” Somehow or another I don't think it really has anything to do with an "1880's census".

      With the part of the statement I quoted it IS without a doubt implying that the election of an African-American President is not only the direct cause of single parent households in the AA community but that it was such a rare occurrence pre-Obama.

      Do we get to blame Nixon for single parent households in the white community?

      Whether or not they long to return to the days of slavery or not is not important really. We already know just how very racist the teabaggers are, this was just more proof of their racism to include something so incredibly STUPID! There is practically ZERO data on black households pre-1860 from the South and not very much more pre-1860 from the North. And come on, 1860? Really? Care to REALLY think that one through as to just *WHY* that census is problematic when it comes to establishing just what was or was not two parent households for blacks???

    • 11 months ago
  • tverdell
  • Simone_Castillo
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      Simone_Castillo  
    • Paratus:

      Children that were born into slavery and subject to be sold and snatched away from their mothers and fathers were hardly more likely to be raised in a two parent household. No amount of psychobabble can justify that statement.

    • 11 months ago
  • Joeydee44
  • GRC54
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      GRC54  
    • Why doesn't this demonic bimbo just shut up and stay in Minn where she belongs.
      If stupid needed a dictionary photo use hers as it would be the best one next to the moose lady.

    • 11 months ago
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  
    • Excellent post. Just proves once again that Bachmann doesn't know history and doesn't care who she insults to make political points.

    • 11 months ago
  • GENERALNATTY
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      GENERALNATTY  
    • i would've liked to know that the video has nothing to do with the story before a wasted 10 minutes of my life on it.

      Other than that good post.

    • 11 months ago
  • letsliveinpeace
  • Misti
  • letsliveinpeace
  • northernexpat
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      northernexpat  
    • Misti:

      I agree that she needs a full psych evaluation and that she is a racist. I've thought that since she started claiming that there were traitors in the Congress (referring to Democrats) and that the Obama Administration is a Gangsta Government, being too cute by half using rap lingo.

    • 11 months ago
  • grammabet
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      grammabet  
    • Misti:

      And this thing is a lawyer. Again some more of her ill created information.The male slaves were taken from their original families,usually sold like cattle.The females cared for the children by their husbands and the ones they had by their slave masters,these children were not by the choice of the female slaves,they had no choice.The slaves didn't have a hustle with children like Bachman does,pulling in big bucks for providing a roof over her 23 fosters and poisoning these kids mids with her and her husbands racist and hate mongering rhetoric,This is christ driven,sounds more like governor Christy driven,and her followers are waiting with open arms and wallets for the next vile remark.

    • 11 months ago
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