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Rep. Santorum Compares Abortion to Slavery

From CNN:

Sen. Rick Santorum compares abortion to slavery in his new book "It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good," which is being promoted as an alternative to the views of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"The African proverb says, 'It takes a village to raise a child,"' Santorum writes. "The American version is 'It takes a village to raise a child -- if the village wants that child."'

In the book, Santorum makes the case that abortion puts the liberty rights of the mother before those of her child, just as the rights of slave owners were put before those of slaves."This was tried once before in America," Santorum writes. "But unlike abortion today, in most states even the slaveholder did not have the unlimited right to kill his slave."

From my post at Daily Kos:

I can tell you how one African American feels. I am sick and tired of slavery being romanticized, used as a political football and equated with something for which it cannot be equated.

Sometimes I just wanna be Black. You got Santorum responded to the African proverb with a retort and you go, I'll bet you couldn't say four other African proverbs. The rhetoric knows no bounds and on most days, as an African American, I need a plastic-lined trash can by my fucking computer to lean over and deposit my breakfast after hearing and reading this crap.

Sometimes I just wanna be capable. You listen to right wingers talking about how Negroes feel when affirmative action is making it seem as if they aren't capable of accomplishing on their own and you go, are you Black? You ain't got a clue as to how I feel?

Sometimes I wanna criticize Black people because they are wrong, because I don't owe any allegiance to any Negro just because we are of the same race. So, when I say something about Condoleeza Rice, it's because she is wrong.

Sometimes I want Black people to be rejected because they aren't the best man for the job. Justice Clarence Thomas, need I say more.

I am one Negro who is tired, tired, tired of the right wing and almost anything they have to say that involves Blacks both past and present.

I will work night and day in order that African Americans are enthusiastic, empowered and represented by the Democratic party and if you want to be a member of the other party and support corporate elitism, a moratorium against the working class and 'separate but equal' voting rights, that's your right.

(wanna know how I really feel?)

posted by niteskolar @ 6:36 PM