MSNBC needs to trade names with CNN so we can call them what they are, Communist News Network..... Well said Comrade Melissa Harris-Perry.
It's hard for me to believe people actually watch that channel. But then again some here actually read the NYT's.
Critics slam MSNBC host’s claim that kids belong to community, not parents
By Hollie McKay
Published April 09, 2013
FoxNews.com
LOS ANGELES – Parents and media critics were aghast after a host for MSNBC called for collective care of a community's children instead of parents taking care of their kids themselves.
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry recorded a commercial for the network in which she stated that children do not belong to their parents, but are instead the responsibility of the members of their community.
“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children,” she says in a spot for the network’s “Lean Forward” campaign. “So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”
Harris-Perry’s views ignited a firestorm of anger and disbelief.
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