Like it or not, friend, it is overtly racist to look a black man in the eye and say that the days of slavery, when black families were torn to pieces by being sold and separated, were when America was "great" because families were stronger.
If one cares one whit about black families, then one doesn't make comments like this.
Either that, or he is dumber than a box of rocks, and twice as ignorant.
You don't have to be a bleeding heart liberal to know the ravages that slavery inflicted on black families.
You just have to be a decent, caring, educated person.
The fact that the accusation of racism has been abused doesn't mean the reality of it doesn't exist.
(It was stated earlier, that if Moore were a true conservative, he would have taken the opportunity to rant against LBJ's "Great Society," and how it destroyed black families. But no. Moore made a fool of himself with his ignorance).
I must note that those days preceded LBJ's "Great Society".
Consider:
First off, not all black (slave) families were torn apart in the days of slavery. (Not the Free blacks at all.) Often the families remained intact or the children as they grew with the children of the owners went with those children of the owners or stayed with the farm.
The families were tied together more than history will ever write, especially the revisionist stuff of today which is sixth generation abolitionist agitprop perpetrated to justify waging total warfare on the South, looting, burning farms and crops that were not 'conscripted', and hanging any male who had stayed behind to work the farm as a spy. That's how Custer made his name in the Carolinas.
But imagine full employment, housing, food, clothing, medical care, all taken care of (and they even ate organic food--no GMO!).
Oh sh*t! Wait! That isn't welfare, it's
slavery! They
worked!
They weren't cruising the 'hood and dealing/taking drugs, hooking, and getting their asses dead by 30 from a drive by shooting or in a robbery or a gang fight. There were no crack whores, no crack babies, nobody's kid waking up dead in the morning with a spike in their arm because the dealer burned them. Instead, their children went on to do things like found Tuskegee Institute and other universities. They didn't have the social services coming in and taking the kids and sending them off to some foster care.
Open your mind just that much to see the difference and maybe someone had a point. They just weren't free, but then neither are many of the welfare blacks today--they just don't recognize their chains.
There may have been cases where there was abuse, after the 3% of those captured and sold to slave traders in Africa came to America, where those families captured intact were sold in different directions. There may have been cases where the level of abuse found in abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe's NOVEL actually happened.
But the degradation of the Black family in times of supposed freedom at the hands of the Liberals in this country in the last 50 years eclipses that in scope and intensity, despite the illusion of freedom the welfare and social services and the housing people give.
As for the rest of us, this didn't exist, either. It is the other set of chains, imposed on us by those who are 'free', or at least living that way.
