And the George Felix Allen Award for sensitivity goes to…
Meet Gerald Schoenewolf, member of NARTH, an organization that claims that gays can be cured. He’s a charmer, as you will soon see:
A prominent member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) is under fire for publishing an essay in which he argues that Africans were fortunate to have been sold into slavery, and the civil rights movement was “irrational.”
There is another way, or other ways, to look at the race issue in America,” writes Gerald Schoenewolf, a member of NARTH’s Science Advisory Committee. “Africa at the time of slavery was still primarily a jungle… Life there was savage … and those brought to America, and other countries, were in many ways better off.”
Cripes, another Aryan clinician with a wealthfare grant from yet another fascist kracker “think” tank.
Now common:
“Gerald Schoenewolf, a member of NARTH’s Science Advisory Committee”
They’re only advising not stating facts!
One way to conclude that “things were not so bad, really” is to avoid interviewing the victims of those “things that were not so bad, really”. In this case, made easier by the fact that none of them are still around.
Slavery is by its very nature an abomination — the buying and selling of other human beings as chattel? Years ago, Time on the Cross made an argument similar to Schoenewolf’s — and was promptly discredited by battalions of historians, sociologists, etc., who questioned not only its conclusions but the methodology by which they were reached. Still, as Thomas Weiss points out in his essay review at http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/weiss.shtml, the book continues to have a following. Apparently among the members of NARTH, at least.
Barbara Bush must be a dues-paying member of NARTH…