Bachmann’s Slavery Flubs and the GOP’s Black Problem

Chris Rock summed up the black experience perfectly when he explained, "I love America, but if you're black you gotta look at America as the uncle that paid your way through college,...but molested you." Modern conservatives are like the relative in that scenario that failed to stop the abuse in order to keep peace in the family. We abhor what happened to blacks before and after the Civil War and we didn't do it ourselves. But fully acknowledging what happened would put a gnawing blight on the honor of a legacy we deeply cherish. We feel guilty and defensive and trapped by something that we think is not our fault.