There are some things in this world that you don’t lightly compare to other things. There are some things that set a new standard in good or in evil to where most comparisons fall flat on their face. Slavery is definitely one of those evil things. It doesn’t mean that you can’t make a comparison to them. It does mean that if you use them you had better be a damn fine orrator. Congressman Trent Franks is clearly not a fine orrator (or at least a good interviewee).
And before anybody jumps on me I know exactly what he was trying to say. I didn’t agree with it (after all, if 4,000 babies are being aborted each day that means 4,000 are being born and that seems like a low level). But I digress. Okay, state that “x amount of African Americans were killed during slavery a horrible time, and now x more are being killed right now”. Taht is the right way to do that. The wrong way to do it is to suggest that slavery was good or that African Americans had it good under slavery. That won’t work no matter how well you couch it.