Michele Bachmann signed marriage pact suggesting black families were better off during slavery

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agnes_therese said:
I’m not adding something that isn’t there. You have every right to believe that being a “whole family” while owned by someone else is better than being in a single-parent family that is recognized as human. But I don’t have to agree.
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Could you please show where I or anyone else stated or even implied that?
 
agnes_therese said:
I’m not adding something that isn’t there. You have every right to believe that being a “whole family” while owned by someone else is better than being in a single-parent family that is recognized as human. But I don’t have to agree.
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I don’t think he said that, any more than Bachmann said slavery was a good thing. I think all that anybody said was that more black children were raised in intact families during at least some part of the slavery years than is the case now. That is the only thing being compared. I notice that nobody has disproved it, at least not yet.

I realize the left wants to defame every possible opponent to Obama, whether it involves the truth or not, and stuff like this might do it. If so, I guess it’s time to go on to another potential Obama opponent and find a way to twist something he or she said or did sometime or other, to make it seem like something it wasn’t.
 
agnes_therese said:
I’m not adding something that isn’t there. You have every right to believe that being a “whole family” while owned by someone else is better than being in a single-parent family that is recognized as human. But I don’t have to agree.
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Nobody said that.
 
Gift_from_God said:
Conservatives in MLK’s time were supporters of segregation. MLK would have been considered a liberal by many, but I don’t think he would like being given any label.
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And the conservatives during that time were found mostly in the Democrat Party.
 
Beau_Ouiville said:
From what I’ve seen you post, not really at all.
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What I have posted from LifeNews today: Canadian Pregnancy Center Hit by Pro-Abortion Vandals Again

GOP Poll: Bachmann Now Leads Romney in Iowa, Pawlenty Gains

Both are acurate.
 
_Abyssinia said:
What I have posted from LifeNews today: Canadian Pregnancy Center Hit by Pro-Abortion Vandals Again

GOP Poll: Bachmann Now Leads Romney in Iowa, Pawlenty Gains

Both are acurate.
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Having a headline does not make a news story accurate
 
So much for Republicans trying to get the African-American vote! Way to go Bachmann and Santorum! I wonder why they are the only two republicans who signed it?
 
MSGirl said:
So much for Republicans trying to get the African-American vote! Way to go Bachmann and Santorum! I wonder why they are the only two republicans who signed it?
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Right, the way to get the african american vote is to give them handfuls of cash and government checks and stuff…:rolleyes:

The black conservatives are one of the fastest growing political segments of society. They see through the clutter and don’t buy the MSM’s sensationalism of the news anymore.
 
MSGirl said:
So much for Republicans trying to get the African-American vote! Way to go Bachmann and Santorum! I wonder why they are the only two republicans who signed it?
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Well, since neither has a chance of winning…why not!?
 
Ahimsa said:
Right, and the footnote (footnote 3) is to this document. And I didn’t see anything in the “Consequences” article comparing marriage rates in 1860 and in 2000s.
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Thank you, I had misunderstood your point.

The think tank which produced that paper has disavowed the pledge’s initial claim:
The footnotes for the slavery passage of the preamble cite a study by the Institute for American Values.
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But the think tank’s president, David Blankenhorn, said in a telephone interview with the Register that the report, written by three black authors and two white authors, makes no such claim.
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“It’s too stupid a thing to say. I don’t think a serious scholar would ever say anything like that,” said Blankenhorn, who wrote a book arguing against same-sex marriage, a belief shared by Family Leader organizers. “It’s mystifying to me as to why they would’ve cited our report as evidence of that.”
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caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/07/11/iowa-marriage-pledge-continues-to-stir-controversy/
MSGirl said:
I wonder why they are the only two republicans who signed it?
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I suspect that more candidates will sign it, now that the controversial statement has been removed. However, they may wait until media attention is on other matters.
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
Right, the way to get the african american vote is to give them handfuls of cash and government checks and stuff…:rolleyes:

The black conservatives are one of the fastest growing political segments of society. They see through the clutter and don’t buy the MSM’s sensationalism of the news anymore.
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Republicans should not try to convince blacks to vote for them. But if conservatives vote against their interests by voting Democrat of abstaining, Republicans need to find out what it is goiing to take to win the allegiance of conservative forces in America.

I suspect that greater percentages of immigrants and blacks are fiscally and socially more conservative than many caucasians are.
 
Zhenia said:
I know…in fact, the slave trade in Africa was largely run by North African Arab Muslims. Black, subSaharan African tribes would war with each other, and the winning tribe got to pick the “best” of the losers for their own personal slaves, and they sold the rest into slavery to the North Africans. They in turn sold them to Europeans, who in turn sold them to North Americans.

The North (you know, the ones who went to war with the South, supposedly to free slaves?) had a very lucrative business going with slavery. They convinced Southern plantation owners that African slaves would be better than the white indentured servants they had been using, because the indentured servants would be free after a set period, but slaves would never be.

The South was on the receiving end of the slavery issue; many, many others made a very big profit on slavery, everyone from the winning black African tribes to the North African slave traders to the Europeans to the Northerners in America.
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Indeed.So close was the relationship between New England and Charleston that linguists seem close similarities between the speech of New England and that of South Carolina. Incidentally, it is seldom mentioned that the number of Indians enslaved by the English was quite large, with the bulk of them being exported to the West Indies where they were unlikely to run away.
 
They look so happy! They are also working! And look at that nice home their owners have! Just think! They may actually live near it in some barn or shack!
Anyway, I think this whole thing just shows some true feelings and thoughts some of these people have. Sadly, most people here will not realize that because it is critical of the republican party. Glad I don’t follow that church.
 
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