For Michele Bachmann, the meaning of Black History Month is "February."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Bachmann ignores slavery in African-American history again

By Nathan Diebenow
Friday, February 11th, 2011 -- 9:30 pm



http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/bachmann-ignores-slavery-in-african-american-history-again/

Black History Month was made for people like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN).

However, it increasingly looks as though the tea party heroine not only never paid attention to African-American history but seeks to re-write it in her own image.

"Other than Native Americans who were here, all of us have the same story," Bachmann told the National Press Club at a "Tea Party Express Forum" Tuesday.

She went on to insist that all Americans are descendants of "a risk-taker from their home country, doesn't matter what the country is, but they took a risk, and they came here."

"And they knew when they came here they weren't coming for a welfare state," Bachmann continued. "They were coming here for the thrill of writing their own ticket. Who did we attract? People that wanted a better life and were willing to do what it took to get it."

[WCGreen]

1. Oh boy does she get anything right?

Oh, yea, she is Right so everything has to fit her little narative...

[JoePhilly]

2. Many of the first who came were insane religious zealots who were

pissed that their crazy religious beliefs would not be imposed on everyone else.

And their desire to impose their narrow religious views on all others has yet to die.

[RandySF]

3. What slave ship did her ancestors arrive on?

[prolesunited]

4. I think the ones who were kidnapped

and "lucky" enough to survive the journey over in slave ships and then held in bondage, traded and sold might have a different perspective.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Weren't there a lot of debters that came here also??

Had to work off their debts before they were free??

She lives in bachmann world where she only sees white ....... color blind I think

[dionysus]

7. indentured servitude. they call it. your debt was a ticket to america, and you were basically

a slave for 7 years to pay it off.

[Angry Dragon]

8. Thank you

[bobbolink]

6. She has the same story! She came here in chains! Cool!

:puke:

[peacetalksforall]

9. Wasn't that 4th grade history?

[beyurslf]

10. ld someone ask her who of her ancestors were owned and traded as property please.

[Thor_MN]

11. Funny, they misspelled heroin. She is a drug to the Tea Baggers

Whenever they feel reality closing in, they can shoot up some Bachmann or Palin and continue in their delusional world.

[blogslut]

12. I've said it before and I'll say it again

Xanax is a hell of a drug.

[fishwax]

13. willful ignorance is nothing new from the GOP

but erasing African Americans entirely seems another level entirely ...

[Raine]

14. She KNOWS better than that

but for their own reasons the RWnutz are working as hard as can to scrub history of the real facts and phoney the whole thing up. We must not let them get away with it, none of our history must be scrubbed and sanitized to suit them! :mad: