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Funniest thing is that the group blamed Think Progrss for saying they were racists, scapegoating them essentially for the whole storm.
TP merely pointed out, with some relish, that the people who advocate a child raised under legally married couples used, as an example, children being raised by people (slaves) who could not legally marry, as being more preferable than today's single mom raised populations.
The Family people missed the point of the article entirely. Other people ran with it as being just a touch stupid and seemingly racist.
The funny thing is that if you actually listen to the interview the presumedly friendly host re-phrases what the group says "the welfare state has done to African American families what not even slavery could do"
So again, I am left with
"We're not saying slavery was good, but we are saying that African Americans are worse off than they were then."
Directly implying the inverse, i.e. modern African Americans were better off under slavery.
It isn't the fact that they said something stupid that bothers me, its that they don't even see that it *is* stupid.
