xssve -> RE: Bachmann Signs Pledge that Says Black Children Better Off During Slavery (7/11/2011 7:02:35 AM)
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That's a Bob Jones University meme, they have a long history as slavery apologists and defenders. The fact is that the institution of American slavery was predicated on preventing the formation of African American families, which continued even after the civil war - welfare was originally a way to prevent hunger riots by agricultural workers who couldn't find work in the off season - at harvest times, welfare would be revoked via "man-in-the-house" rules, i.e., a family could not receive assistance if there was a man living in the house, see Piven and Cloward, Regulating the Poor. Blacks have been continually fucked with, as a community, in ways that no other immigrant group ever was, save perhaps the indigenous Native Americans. AEI is another influential right wing institution with a history of supporting racist policies, thinly disguised as something else.
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