via Media Matters:
“[...]America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.”
Yo, Pat B., I am definitely loving the passive voice, effectively taking blame away from the whole slave ship thing. It totally says, “Well, they came over on the slave ships…it’s irrelevant who brought them here in the first place.”
I would post more here, but you really have to read the original to believe it. I’ll post a response later, when I’m not outraged and exhausted.
