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.
> “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.”
Yes. I moved toward that position later, after making my initial comment about political correctness (but not referring specifically to Bachmann). I didn’t take any kind of pledge, so I was free to wiggle in whichever direction I wished. :-)
I agree.
It's an absurd meaningless comparison.
Let's try another one.
One could go kidnap a young family and hold them in a dungeon for 20 years and at the end of those 20 years you will still have both parents together with their kids.
Compare that to the rest of the population where you will have a lower percentage of two parent families.
So what's the point of that comparison?
There is none really, it's absurd.
And so is the comparison on the pledge.