Family Leader Quotes
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.
This is an example of how values in politics can get complex. Family Leader put together The Marriage Vow, a pledge it wanted political candidates to sign. The pledge dealt with marital fidelity and other traditional family values. Two Republican Presidential Nomination Candidates signed the pledge rapidly as many of their competitors had notorious affairs and/or had been divorced. The 2 signers thought that they would obtain a substantial advantage. However, another part of the pledge was dealing with the importance of children being brought up in a 2 parent home, The quotation gives their statement on Black families and illegitimacy. However, they organization was so hung up on the evil of children in single parent households, that they said in the pledge that Blacks were better off under slavery than they are under Barack Obama—the first Black President. As might have been expected, there were no Blacks and even very few racist whites who would claim Black children and families were better off under slavery. They two politicians, Michelle Bachman and Rick Santorum—neither very sensitive to minority issues and perceived by most Blacks as racists—began to back away from their signing, First Leader, then removed the quoted paragraph from all copies of the signed pledges and removed it from their website. However, original copies—including the quoted paragraph—got into the hands of the media and the scandal began. Family Leader, trying to do damage control, wisely apologized. The other Republican Presidential aspirants both monogamous and otherwise, refused to sign but what it is that made them refuse was probably different for each person.
Family Leader, Iowa Family Values Political Organization, The Marriage Vow, 2011
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Louisiana to this day has a different legal system from the rest of the United States as it was originally based on the French Napoleonic Code. Most people did not realize that Louisiana had strictures against breaking up families—even with slaves.
Many historians of higher education to not agree with Wilder’s overall generality. However, it was certainly the case that slavery was a major factor in generating the funds for some early universities in the North, but others were “hotbeds” of abolition from their very inception.
Under the previous Republican administrations, virulent and overt racists were not generally appointed especially as they were generally then Democrats. However, when Woodrow Wilson was elected president, he not only appointed many overt racists but he himself may have been one of the most racist Presidents every to inhabit the white House. He fired almost all the Blacks who held positions in the Federal government.
One reason that this is such a noteworthy quote is that Rubio was in the midst of his campaign for the Republican Presidential Nomination where only the most dedicated and generally conservative members of the party turn out to vote in the primaries. And a very large part of them were Southern racists who switched parties in response to the Civil Rights Act passage in 1964. Since then the very conservative wing of the party has had a de facto veto on Republican presidential candidates. Rubio's statement was the view of the majority of Americans and a significant number of Republicans, but this courageous statement of his true belief's risked his chances in the primary.
Actually Blacks did all three. Some returned to Africa and established the state of Liberia. Others went to South America and most stayed in the United States and continued to help build the nation.
After emancipation of the slaves legislation and the enforcement thereof were needed to produce freedom. Congress passed much legislation but the Southern anti-Negro forces made enforcement difficult and finally impossible. It would be 100 years before civil rights became a reality in the South and many other parts of the nation.
The Act was passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly whose clerk interestingly enough was Tom Paine.
The Family Leader (stylized The FAMiLY LEADER) is an American social conservative in Iowa. The Family Leader is an umbrella group comprising The Family Leader Foundation, Marriage Matters, Iowa Family PAC, and Iowans for Freedom. The Family Leader is loosely affiliated with the national social conservative organization Focus on the Family. According to its website, The Family Leader "provides a consistent, courageous voice in the churches, in the legislature, in the media, in the courtroom, in the public square…always standing for God’s truth."
