GOP Lawmaker Says America Was Better Off During Slavery
The conservative yearning for the days of the Confederacy has no end.
Speaking on a conference call for the ’40 Days to Save America” plan, Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert decided to inject slavery into the conversation:
We strayed away at different times, Andrew Jackson’s time was not a great time, at different times slavery was a blot on our existence, but the trouble is we have never as an entire nation overall been so far away from God’s teaching and so openly rebelling, even from the top, against God’s teachings in the Bible.”
Gohmert believes that America is morally worse off today than during slavery. Although some white conservatives sincerely believe that, it is doubtful that slaves, who were sold, beaten, and ripped away from their families, would have agreed.
Before you write this off as an isolated incident, remember that in 2011, Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann signed “The Marriage Vow”, which suggested that black families were better off during slavery.
“Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President,” read the pledge.
The Iowa group which circulated the pledge eventually deleted the offending passage and apologized.
And just two weeks ago, Arkansas lawmaker Jon Hubbard defended slavery in his book, “Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative”, calling it a “blessing in disguise” for blacks.
More and more it seems that conservatives desire to convince everyone that slavery was not that bad, and blacks should just shut up and be more appreciative. They’re rewriting history at a furious speed to cover up what can’t be hidden – the utter immorality of taking away the freedom of another human being.
unless we forget is not just a slogan nov 6 what are u gonna do I AREADY DID VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First off black folks need to get the language correct (Dr. King) Africans were enslaved by their so called masters. Our ancestors were not slaves but enslaved, remember the middle passage African women would throw their children overboard rather than let them grow up in slavery. Second there was over 200 slave revolts during our enslavement so our ancestors just did not lay down and take this.
Now for these crackers that say things like we were better off in slavery and wants the good old days back. FORGET ABOUT IT!!!
If black folks will punish these cracker for the wrong they did to our ancestors they will stop taliking crazy to ya’ll. Native Americans, Japanese American and even the jews in n**i Germany all received reparations for the wrongs done to them but Black folks in America? Obama put reparations on the table for your people. Teach these crackers when they mess up they pay up!
to all of u people that got youre little pink panties in a bunch……u r retarded upon reading both articles i realized no body but the person who wrote the headline said anything degrading to blacks that just shows how ignorant u people really are all
@ carlos carr….the term cracker that you use is racist dont throw stones when you live in a glass house……in case you forgot real americans are native indians we had nothing to do with european people or nazis as you call them bringing blacks here…..and in case all of you ignorant people forget who was it that brought slavery to a end……oh yea a f*****g WHITE guy or cracker as you so ignorantly call him……u people should eat a bullet for lunch
The GOP is so good at throwing stones and hiding their hands I say to all of them slavery still exist for Black America just hidden behind a bunch of lies that is suppose to be giving Blacks Americans equal rights. If thing are so equal now why has the president had to endure so much disrespect? Right about now they will stop at absolutely nothing to win back the white house.
he is absolutely right. all that free labor and free black p***y.
@t-mic read history ok the 13th amendment freed the slaves not the so called Emancipation Proclamation, and by the way Abraham Lincoln hated blacks, and was literally forced to do what he did, read the book titled Forced Into Glory, but not everyone knows this and the majority of the so called founding fathers and most of the first 15 presidents were slave owners, bet you didn’t know that.
I can understand why some mindless Whites would be very nostalgic about Slavery, and the days of Slavery. All they had to do then was sit and give orders, and what they said was carried out. Who wont salivate for the possible return of such days, if you are in the master, or order-dishing position?
Well, sorry for you people that think like that: time, events and other issues of history are never stagnant. Here we are now with a Black President. I know how you feel. I know how Congress feels, I know how Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Senators Mitch McConnell and De- Mint feel. This is comparable to the way Pharoah felt when the people of Israel were exiting Egypt: No more slaves to continue doing what slaves are meant for in the land of Egypt. But one is clear: They cannot do anything about it even inspite of McConnell’s visceral outburt of doing everything in his power to see that Obama is one – term President.
May the Chastisment of America be Swift Allah for old & New Sins for they have Reached unto Heaven! These are a Click of Devils/Satanic Forces Groups of White Demons & a few Chocolate Chips StoolpigeonAssNegroes these types of Negroes must Die! Before you Sell-out Get the h**l out! This Type of talk & Actions Don’t Surprise Me only when Crackers Do Good is when they surprise me lol OH Really! The Messenger of Allah already taught you who these Beasts were The Devil! Stop Smiling in Whitefolks faces Sambo & Sambolina Smile at our own found doing Something Positive! The Italians have a Hardtime Selling out because when they Do their Name is Mud! Blacks sellout over envy Drinkin’ HaterAid & the Knowledge that we are a Powerless Group so these n****s think they can sell-out & Nothing will Happen especially if it’s for some Money! We need to Organize Men without fear & Love of self & Kind to Reach out & touch a SamboSelloutsucka! Also Devils l*****g after our Women Kill these Crackers been tired of u all!
What’s up with this Peckerwoods Head lol He looks like the Cranium lol He looks like ironhead only he a Cracker lol BigAssHead Big GrabBagHeadCracker lol
Some white People are so smugged, and arrogrant. But it just let everyone knows how bad you are now and how bad it was then with all of the screwed up comment they post…They are the first ones that always have some racist to say , but then cant take the backlash, after affect of being put in their place…All the bad comments in the post, but their own people started the mess in the first place…Tell your people to get a life…and leave Black people alone with your racist comments, stories, and post.
A blessing to not no your roots and where your family began. A blessing to watch who you think is your wife raped by master, a blessing to watch master take your son and daughters and rape them because they can, thats right rape your son also and you can do nothing but die if you speak. Yea those sound like the good old days.
A blessing to have so many people of your race dumped overboard of each slave ship so many that the number could not be recorded. Many times more than the Holocost deaths.
Yea black Americans really were better off in the good old days. I wouldn’t wish what happened to African Americans on the Jews that died by Hitlers hands, so truely they must have been better off.
The sad thing is white people world wide do not feel an appology is warranted or as the US Constitution reads should give African Amricans thier due payment for these attrocities.
He is German. They want to enslave the world and rule it with an iron fist. Take him seriously.