Bring Back Slavery!

US Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has called for "the good old days" when blacks were slaves. Here is a post by Andrew Malcolm in his LA Times blog:

Michele Bachmann signs anti-gay pact that says times were better for black kids during slavery

Michele Bachmann signed a controversial pact Thursday that is anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-pornography, and floats the curious notion that African American children were better off during slavery than they are under the Obama administration.

The pledge was drawn up by Bob Vander Plaats, a man who ran for governor of Iowa in 2010 and lost in the Republican primary despite the benefit of an endorsement from Internet legend Chuck Norris. Vander Plaats also sought the high office in Iowa in 2002 and 2006 (as Jim Nussle's running mate) but voters gave him the thumbs down.

Somehow he fancies himself a kingmaker and is hoping that other GOP politicians, desperate to appear so-conservative-it-hurts will sign his pledge [.pdf] titled "The Marriage Vow: A Declaration of Dependence upon MARRIAGE and FAMILY."

The manifesto is ripe with anti-gay paranoia written by the man who once said, "If we’re teaching the kids, 'don’t smoke, because that’s a risky health style,' the same can be true of the homosexual lifestyle."

But the strangest nugget in the pact that the Republican congresswoman from Minnesota signed was one that hearkens back to the good old days when slavery was legal, meaning that black kids had the priceless benefit of having a traditional home.
"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," the vow states in a bullet-point.

Ever since Nixon got the Republicans to adopt a "Southern strategy", this day has been coming. Bring out the chains and whips. The times of massa and the plantations is back!

I can't imagine that bombing churches and killing little kids can be too far off. The Republican party has put on the Klansman's hood and is ready to ride in the night terrorizing the countryside!