MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, responding to a backlash for a promo she recently appeared in, doubled down Monday on her claims that children do not belong solely to their parents.
“This isn’t about me wanting to take your kids, and this isn’t even about whether children are property,” she said. “This is about whether we as a society, expressing our collective will through our public institutions, including our government, have a right to impinge on individual freedoms in order to advance a common good. And that is exactly the fight that we have been having for a couple hundred years.”
The MSNBC host has been thrust into the spotlight lately for a network promotion she appeared in, claiming that kids belong to whole communities.
“We’ve always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours, and your responsibility,” she says in the ad. “We haven’t had a very collective notion of ’These are our children.’ 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.”
Ms. Harris-Perry has been the target of several outspoken conservatives, such as Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, who say her beliefs are similar to Karl Marx’s.
• Jessica Chasmar can be reached at jchasmar@washingtontimes.com.
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