EW Jackson says slavery wasn't as bad for black families ... - Daily Kos

One of the things E.W. Jackson could do to stop people from talking about his crazy-ass statements is, and this is just an idea, to stop saying them.

My grandfather was born there, to a father and a mother who had been slaves. And by the way, their family was more intact than the black family is today and I?m telling you that slavery did not destroy the black family even though it certainly was an attack on the black family. It made it difficult but I?ll tell you that the programs that began in the ?60s, the programs that began to tell women that ?you don?t need a man in the home, the government will take care of you,? that and began to tell men, ?you don?t need to be in the home, the government will take care of this woman and take care of these children.? That?s when the black family began to deteriorate. In 1960 most black children were raised in two parent, monogamous families. By now, by this time, we have only 20% of black children being raised in two parent, monogamous families with a married man and woman raising those children. It wasn?t slavery that did that, it was government that did that, trying to solve problems that only God can solve and that only we as human beings can solve.

This is actually nothing particularly new; the notion that black Americans at least had the benefit of a nice family structure while they were being held as slaves is one of those odd declarations that keeps popping up, among conservatives. The idea that black families were better off in the era of Jim Crow, before the civil rights struggles of the 1960s?that one I haven't heard so much, possibly because it's recent enough history that no non-idiot would say it out loud and expect to get away with it.

What E.W. is arguing here, and I will give him full marks for his social conservatism here, he's really got the spirit of the movement down cold, is that black American families are worse and worse off in proportion to how much freedom we've given them. That is social conservatism in a nutshell, and Jackson is nothing if not a thorough nut.

It's not just black Americans, though. Note that Jackson also ties it to the expanding rights of American women during the same period, neatly covering another social conservative base. The same arguments are made readily about American women in debates ranging from the wage gap to abortion rights; more freedom means more disruption and "deterioration" of entrenched, obviously better societal values. The strength of conservative Christianity is widely declared to be falling as direct result of giving non-Christian Americans more freedom to practice their own religions without persecution. Sen. Ted Cruz even stood on the Senate floor this week to say that efforts to provide more rights to long-time immigrants would be hurting immigrants. The notion that the welfare of Americans decreases in direct proportion to how many rights they have is, sadly, not even a little bit outside the conservative mainstream.

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Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/20/1217548/-E-W-Jackson-says-slavery-wasn-t-as-bad-for-black-families-as-the-post-civil-rights-era-has-been

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