We cats love Gone With The Wind and all, but it's time for America to stop pretending that slavery either didn't exist or was kind of benign.
Latest case in point: A "Marriage Vow" issued by a group of fools called the Family Leader, which has pressed Republican Presidential candidates to sign it. Unsurprisingly, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum have done so.
The document's main purpose appears to be a broadside attack on marriage equality, but it also avers that a black American slave baby 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.”
Ridiculous. The very idea that there were such things as "two-parent households" under American slavery is absurd. Slave parents could not even marry. They were property, folks. So slave families were constantly split apart by being, um, sold. (And here's an extra added bonus: Slave women were constantly subjected to rape by their masters. If they resisted, they were beaten or killed.)
Yep, a real fun life. But don'tcha know, so much better than under President Obama. Now this silly group has issued one of those lame "we're sorry if anyone was offended" apologies.
We cats are tired of the right wing planting monstrous lies into the mainstream political discourse, and then feebly walking them back when they assume no one is looking. It's corrupting, dishonest and evil. As for this latest outrage, didn't we all see Roots, or are we dating ourselves?
The ignorance and/or rewriting of history that the Republican Party fosters and institutionalizes is one of the gravest threats to the future of our nation. How can we govern ourselves if we don't even know how we got here?
We cats SNARL.
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