As we noted earlier, the AFA had changed Bryan Fischer’s blog post from yesterday in which he claimed that welfare had destroyed the African American community because it just gave money to “people who rut like rabbits.” Here is the original paragraph:
Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. Welfare has subsidized illegitimacy by offering financial rewards to women who have more children out of wedlock. We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it’s no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.
The AFA subsequently changed it to remove that line:
Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. Welfare has subsidized illegitimacy by offering financial rewards to women who have more children out of wedlock. We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it’s no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of those who engage in random and reckless promiscuity, whether they are Caucasian, Hispanic, or African-American.
And now Fischer has written a new post accusing the left of leveling “wildly fasle accusations of racism”:
My column of yesterday has lit up the blogosphere with false accusations that I am some kind of virulent racist.
This was in response to my statement that our welfare policies – in which we subsidize and reward sex outside of marriage – is incentivizing people of all ethnic groups to “rut like rabbits.” This is a simple and unmistakable fact. You get more of whatever you subsidize, and we are clearly getting more sex outside of marriage and more children born out of wedlock than ever before. (I have since made changes in my original column to clarify any confusion and misinterpretation of my comments.)
I was commenting on the effect of our misguided welfare policies across the board, and was not singling out the African-American community in particular, although the consequences of our disastrous welfare policies are felt most acutely there. I was speaking generally to the fact that fallen human nature is going to gravitate to whatever behavior government rewards, even if the behavior itself is self-destructive.
Because we are subsidizing fornication and illegitimacy – every illegitimate baby means more taxpayer money for the mother – we now have 40% of all babies being born out of wedlock overall. In the Hispanic community, the number is over 50% and in the African-American community, the number is now catastrophically over 70%.
This is actually typical for Fischer. Every time he says something bigoted and people seek to hold him and the AFA accountable for it, his response is to claim that everyone else is deliberately misrepresenting his statement when, in fact, they are just quoting him directly.
