GOP Rep: Blacks Worse Off Now Than Under Slavery (video)

[devilgrrl]

It's one right after another with these assholes! :puke:

Rep. Trent Franks, a Republican from Arizona, said on Friday that because of U.S. abortion policy, "far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by the policies of slavery."

Franks made the comments in an interview with video blogger Mike Stark of StarkReports.com.

Slavery, said Franks, "is a crushing mark on America's soul, yet today half of all black children are aborted. Half of all black children are aborted. Far more black children, far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by the policies of slavery."

Putting aside whether it's appropriate to define slavery as a "policy," Franks is correct, according to a Guttmacher Institute study on the rate of abortions in the African-American community, but the same report found that the higher rate was directly related to lack of access to contraceptives.

One hundred percent of African Americans born into slavery, however, were born into slavery.

video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/gop-rep-blacks-worse-off_n_478744.html

[joeybee12]

1. Ok, so I rec'ed and it only brought it back up to "0"

Jesus Christ people...you unreccer better be a troll and not a regular poster.

[Codeine]

3. Some people unrecc as a way of disagreeing with the

statements or actions of the people in the story. They're not really clear on the concept.

[rocktivity]

2. You're about year off the mark, Congressman

when comes to condemning presidential policies that hurt blacks.

In a related story, the aborted black children could neither confirm nor deny Franks' accusations.

:crazy:
rocktivity

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. He must own stock in the private prison business.

Any Republican politician with the first name of Trent is not going to get much credence talking about
black issues, I can tell ya that.

[damntexdem]

13. Well, at least not a Lott of credence.

;-)

[skypilot]

5. I despise the GOP but...

...I find it especially repulsive when they pretend to care about all the little black children to push their anti-choice agenda.

[Fumesucker]

6. So, how is his voting record to help out children once they are no longer fetuses?

Be willing to bet he thinks that once you have the kid it's strictly your problem.

[Brewman_Jax]

7. When will they quit?

They don't care about black people, never have, couldn't be bothered. Why do they act like they care? :grr:

Where did those stats come from, thin air? :crazy:

[Better Today]

8. Except, as any mother knows, having children IS a form of slavery.

So they're damned if they do and damned if they don't. :::putting on flame suit::::

Really I'm just being snarky. Can you tell I've recently had an issue with one of my kiddos?

[Arkana]

9. And being a black person in America, you would know, Mr. Franks?

[CurtEastPoint]

10. He's using the same words as the billboards in ATL about black children and extinction due to AB

F'ing idiots.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. Crazy is

As crazy does.

[gratuitous]

12. I'm sure the GOP has done its best

And they're only now making slavery look good again to black people. Let's all join hands with Mr. Franks and sing a chorus of "We Shall Undercome."

[Number23]

14. Wow! Half of black babies are aborted in America??

:wow: What?? Where?? How???

For some reason, that makes me absolutely incredibly sad.

Edit: I didn't believe that so I looked in the accompanying PDF file. It says:

"The lowest abortion rate of all the racial and ethnic groups
examined was among white women (13 per 1,000), while
the highest rate was among black women (49 per 1,000)." (page 6 of the document)

How in the world is 49 per 1000 50 damn percent???

[NOLALady]

15. I get it.

Abortion reduces the number of poverty stricken youth who may resort to crime and fill the jails. We can't have that. Legalized slavery in the form of incarceration is quite profitable.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_8_15/ai_54007898/

[Tailormyst]

16. These people are out of their fucking minds.

[Posteritatis]

17. As the youth say in their current verncular, "...wat." (nt)

[Starry Messenger]

18. (facebludgeon)