> “Still, it’s a point that is NOT worth making [about some good being found in an evil] .”
Perhaps not, at least for a politician in some contexts (though Bachmann didn’t make it quite as bluntly as I did — her emphasis was on things being even worse now in one particular aspect than they were under slavery, which she emphasized was bad). I would hope that by continually defying the demand for politically correct speech we’d eventually be able to weaken it. In the meantime those who defy it — and are in sensitive positions — may have to pay a price. A good politician needs to know when to be bold and when to be prudent.
This is not about political correctness. It really isn’t. It’s about accuracy and meaningless statistics.
Saying that more children are raised in a 2 parent home during slavery contrasted with now is like saying that if you have your feet in a freezer and your head in a hot oven, your average body temp is 98.6. It’s MEANINGLESS.
You are contrasting the voluntarily broken black households of today with shacks not in the possession of a trapped “family” that could be sold or split apart ANY DAY. These people were PROPERTY. You can’t compare that to any choice of a free person.
A better comparison for today’s situation would be the very segregated situation of black families in the difficult 1930s. Real racism was all around, yet black Americans in that day, against all odds, were mostly raised in 2-parent families.