When I wrote the other day that I thought it might be a distraction for the General Assembly to pass a resolution apologizing for Delaware’s role in the horrid disgusting dehumanizing bigoted evil institution of slavery, I did say the undeniable racism of certain leading conservative and Republican Party officials and of certain elements of the conservative base was almost enough of a motivation to pass such a resolution anyway, if only to expose their racism, sort of like spitting in their evil faces, if you will.
And boy, a full 48 hours did not pass to move the dial on my “almost enough of a motivation” to a “passionate and complete motivation:”
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks told blogger Mike Stark that African Americans were much better off under slavery.
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FRANKS: In this country, we had slavery for God knows how long. And now we look back on it and we say “How brave were they? What was the matter with them? You know, I can’t believe, you know, four million slaves. This is incredible.” And we’re right, we’re right. We should look back on that with criticism. It is a crushing mark on America’s soul. And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by the policies of slavery. And I think, What does it take to get us to wake up?
Wake us up to what, Bigot Franks? To the realization that we should return to the institution of slavery? You are the only telling us that the choice is between the policies of today (which by the way include the policies of equality and civil rights for our African American brethren if not complete freedom from the stain of discrimination) and the institution of slavery? You presented this as a black and white (no pun intended) choice between then and now, did you not?
Yes, abortion rates among African American women are much too high, but the solution is not to put them back in chains! And what about abortion rates among white women, or hispanic women, or Asian women? To people like Franks, who believes reproductive freedom is akin to a holocaust worse than the actual holocaust, one abortion is too much. So why is the Bigot Franks focusing his ire upon African American women or African American society?
Simple.
He is a dirty racist. And he thinks things were much better under slavery. Blacks knew their place then, at least. Unlike now, when one of them is President.
I suspect Franks is a dirty sexist too, for placing all women in chains has been the social conservative solution to the problem of women exercising their reproductive freedom, if not their complete freedom. I am sure if asked Bigot Franks would say things were much better back when women as a whole did not have a right to vote.
The solution, Bigot Franks, in case you even care, to higher abortion rates among African Americans, and in the American population as a whole, is better education. Awareness of safe sex protection and birth control. Awareness of adoption services.
So when faced with fuckin bullshit bigotry like this, were a prominent Republican Congressman yearns for a return to slavery, I say pass that slavery apology resolution everywhere. If only to spit in their faces.