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.
The fact that his is an excerpt from a DOMA pledge flies in the face that solidly half of marriages don't work out (just look at all the failed marriages and infidelity issues among politicians), but trying to square their logic by bringing slavery into the issue while taking a snipe at the president (and ignorantly insulting African Americans) all in one salvo... Just. No.
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.
Bag me all you want- my country was established from penal colonies...but it was truly a day to remember when we broke free from the wretched grasp of those evil French aristocrats
FellOnEarth
Temecula, CA
April 2006
JUL 08, 2011 11:39 AM