Baratunde: Michelle Bachmann is running for president on a pro-slavery, anti-porn platform?
This pledge is titled, “THE MARRIAGE VOW: A Declaration of Dependence Upon MARRIAGE and FAMiLY.” … To their partial credit, their pledge opens by acknowledging that one cannot claim to defend marriage without focusing on the high divorce rate, broken families, infidelity and other challenges (besides THE GAYS) “threatening” traditional marriage. … To their discredit, the first bullet point is:
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.
This is the point at which my brain started to bleed from the anger + incredulousness + assault by batshittery.
Why stop at two-parent households? Let’s celebrate the free housing, healthcare and meal plan offered to every black slave! You know what else slavery did for black people? Exercise! Oh it was just great! We even got to work outside. Speaking of work, today, African-American unemployment is over 16 percent. In Milwauke, Wisc., over one-third of black men are unemployed. But during slavery times, every black man had a job! See, things were better in the past, and now things are bad. Ah, the good old days…
Scope whole thing over at Baratunde Thurston’s blog.
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The people who wrote that up that “Marriage Vow”, do they not care that it’s offensive or do they not know? At least they get bonus points for not going exclusively after gays.
Also: The second quoted text isn’t Bachmann right? Just someone else making an ass of themselves?
John, Baratunde wrote that second quote as part of his article. He’s being sarcastic.
I just heard about her signing onto this pledge yesterday. I’m not surprised. She and others like her are blatant racists and discriminate against all who they consider not to be one of them without blanking an eye. I’m sure there will be more to come as the months go by.