Bachmann signs pledge implying blacks would be better off as slaves

[pbrower2a]

I have a feeling she didn't read the thing before signing.

Only a fool signs anything before reading something non-routine. President Barack Obama has a degree from an honest-to- Oliver Wendell Holmes law school, and he would never make that mistake.

[pbrower2a]

A slave childhood was itself abuse -- even if the parents did nothing to contribute to the abuse.

When it comes to white people discussing black-white race relations, there are three obvious categories.

The first is white people who have black people in their families, perhaps even as children. They know the realities as no other white people can.

The second are white people who usually pretend no expertise on the subject, either going mute or resorting to bland or second-hand generalities intended to avoid offense. They recognize their own ignorance.

The third are white people who, although they know little, pretend to great wisdom that usually contradicts the knowledge of the subject that black people know. They are the sorts who believe that being brought up by a single mother is even worse than being brought up to be a slave.

Abraham Lincoln must be turning over in his grave.