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| Congresswoman Michele Bachmann |
She went on to insist that all Americans are descendants of "risk-takers from their home country, doesn't matter what the country is, but they took a risk, and they came here".
Michele Bachmann has never converted her blatant lies to truths on the campaign trail. And now she is insisting on rewriting the history of African Americans in her own image.
She seems to believe that African slaves voluntarily came to the Americas on cruise ships. She forgot to mention that the captured Africans were jammed together like sardines in the bowels of those "cruise" ships. Bachmann is basically postering that Africans loved the "risk” of getting enslaved by their equals, facing the unfavorable odds of getting killed by their equals if they attempted to escape at sea or on land.
African slaves even loved the “risk” of seeing and hearing their daughters and mothers getting raped by White males who had no regard for their womanhood or humanity. There was nothing these free African women and girls could do to defend themselves against the rape and violence. African fathers and sons were helpless to stop these crimes against their mothers, grand-mothers, sisters and daughters. They did not have the power to defend themselves.
There was a “risk” of women and young girls dying giving birth to their rapists' babies. The chance of them getting sold like cattle was equal among all the slaves and the children they gave birth to.
According to Bachmann's thinking, African men, women and families loved the “risk” of getting torn away from each other and sold on auction blocks. They loved the “risk” of death if they disobeyed their White masters, mistresses, even White children. Anyone White was a master whether they owned slaves or not.
Bachmann implies that "risk" taking Africans were thrilled to work the cotton fields, and other plantation chores from sunup to sundown, in hot and cold weather. Sadistic overseers slapped their backs with skin eating whips. The African "risk takers" were so happy with their "freedom" that they attempted to run away. They preferred the “risk” of gaining independence to dependence on slave masters.
If Bachmann’s evaluation of Africans is correct, then the 13th and 14th Amendments did not apply to them. They were already free “risk-takers” like her European ancestors!
When Martin Luther King, Jr. led civil rights marches and demonstrations in the 1950s, he was merely the leader of a walking marathon to keep “risk’ taking African Americans in good physical condition. They were getting too fat living the good life. Once in a while African Americans liked pretending they were on equal footing with White Americans. The “risk” of pretending kept them grounded.
All of those Jim Crow laws, Black and White water fountains, and lynchings carried out in a carnival atmosphere are historical exaggerations. The murders and rapes committed by White males against African American women and young girls, even after slavery ended, were exaggerated imaginations! If the White criminals were not brought to justice, that’s because “risk" taking African Americans refused to seek justice.
If Michele Bachmann knows nothing else she knows Black history! According to her, if captured Africans did not succeed in America it’s their fault for not taking advantage of the opportunities awaiting them in their new homeland. Apparently they were too lazy, or too scared to act like European “risk-takers.”
African slaves even loved the “risk” of seeing and hearing their daughters and mothers getting raped by White males who had no regard for their womanhood or humanity. There was nothing these free African women and girls could do to defend themselves against the rape and violence. African fathers and sons were helpless to stop these crimes against their mothers, grand-mothers, sisters and daughters. They did not have the power to defend themselves.
There was a “risk” of women and young girls dying giving birth to their rapists' babies. The chance of them getting sold like cattle was equal among all the slaves and the children they gave birth to.
According to Bachmann's thinking, African men, women and families loved the “risk” of getting torn away from each other and sold on auction blocks. They loved the “risk” of death if they disobeyed their White masters, mistresses, even White children. Anyone White was a master whether they owned slaves or not.
Bachmann implies that "risk" taking Africans were thrilled to work the cotton fields, and other plantation chores from sunup to sundown, in hot and cold weather. Sadistic overseers slapped their backs with skin eating whips. The African "risk takers" were so happy with their "freedom" that they attempted to run away. They preferred the “risk” of gaining independence to dependence on slave masters.
If Bachmann’s evaluation of Africans is correct, then the 13th and 14th Amendments did not apply to them. They were already free “risk-takers” like her European ancestors!
When Martin Luther King, Jr. led civil rights marches and demonstrations in the 1950s, he was merely the leader of a walking marathon to keep “risk’ taking African Americans in good physical condition. They were getting too fat living the good life. Once in a while African Americans liked pretending they were on equal footing with White Americans. The “risk” of pretending kept them grounded.
All of those Jim Crow laws, Black and White water fountains, and lynchings carried out in a carnival atmosphere are historical exaggerations. The murders and rapes committed by White males against African American women and young girls, even after slavery ended, were exaggerated imaginations! If the White criminals were not brought to justice, that’s because “risk" taking African Americans refused to seek justice.
If Michele Bachmann knows nothing else she knows Black history! According to her, if captured Africans did not succeed in America it’s their fault for not taking advantage of the opportunities awaiting them in their new homeland. Apparently they were too lazy, or too scared to act like European “risk-takers.”
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