Racism in the Marriage Vow

      I will admit that I did not read the whole vow completely, because after the first few lines it sounded like the same Gaurantors of Poverty talking points.  However, there is a snippet at the end that is outrageous yet not completely surprising since most racists are Republicans.  I am going to explain this.  There is a possbility of confusing the claim All racists are Republicans with All Republicans are racists.  They are not the same.  Some people are Republican's because believe they like small government, or because they believe abortion is murder.  However, the GOP has dabbled in racism, with their attacks on undocumented workers being a drain on the system and being "other".  A lot of attacks on Obama have been racist, such as Republicans running around demanding to see the birth certificate.  And Ronald Reagan talked about his famous "welfare" queen who drove a Cadillac and lived the good life while on welfare, conjuring up an image of a black woman taking advantage of the system because she is lazy.  These are all appeals to the racist wing of the Republican party.  And recently, the tea party decided to show up not while Bush was around, but when the first black man took office.  And now, here is what the end of the pledge says "Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President."

     Now, this is why it is not surprising that Bob Vamder Plaats, a very conservative Republican, would include something like this in a pledge.  He is either harboring racist feelings himself, or he is playing to the racists in the Republican party in order to garner support.  John McCain, during the 2008 Presidential debate, stood up to a woman who called Obama an arab, and said Obama was a good man personally who he happened to disagree with.  Good people don't cut education, food assistance to the poor, or health care funding that people desperately need, but I digress.  That was an example of moral courage by John McCain, but I don't think any of the current GOP candidates would have the cajones to do such a thing today.