8 Political Myths About African Americans

I am so glad that some one is addressing these ideals that others seem to have about people of color; specifically about African Americans. It seems like every year a part of our history and culture is misrepresented and misinterpreted.

Now that the myth that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States has been debunked, we can go on to dispel some other prominent urban legends.

The Atlanta Post points to eight political myths that continue to dog the African-American community. The first and most preposterous of these fallacies was in the Family Leader Pledge that was signed by conservative presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, a Tea Party favorite.

The pledge, which was later rewritten after a much-deserved political backlash, initially stated that a "black 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."

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