‘Our Children Are Not Our Private Property’ VIDEO
Melissa Harris Perry dove headfirst on Saturday to the weeklong controversy about her MSNBC promo.
Harris Perry took over as target of relentless conservative attacks to the ad, in which she said society needed to think in a collective manner about its children and that "we have to break through our form of private idea that [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] kids belong to their parents or kids are part [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] of their families, and observe [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] that kids belong to their communities." On his MSNBC show, Chris Hayes estimated that this 30 second promo had, when you added it up, been covered for more than an [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] hour on Fox News throughout the week even though it was aired for only a total of four minutes on MSNBC.
"I believe our youngsters are not our private property," she said. "They are not just extensions of ourselves."
Then, Harris Perry explained why she thought she had caused such a ruckus. She said the battle over the ad was, [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] at its core, exactly the same argument the left along with the right have been having for centuries.
"This isn’t about me wanting to take your kids," she said. "This is approximately whether we like a society, expressing our collective will through our public institutions, including our government, use a right to impinge on individual freedoms as a way to advance a common good. That is certainly exactly the fight we have been having a couple of hundred years."
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