The New Lynching

Although African-Americans account for around twelve percent of the national population, African-Americans account for nearly thirty-five percent of abortions. The Black leadership is often quoting national population percentages versus incarceration percentages to assert that the judicial system is racially biased. I agree; working in the urban African-American setting, attending court with some of my parishioners, and interviewing officers of the court--attorneys, judges, and others, I wholeheartedly believe the judicial system carries within its institutionalized veins the virus of prejudice. Why, then, does the Black leadership not decry abortion as an affront to the African-American community, especially when three-fourths of abortion clinics are strategically placed next to minority communities and the founder of Planned Parenthood advocated abortions for Blacks to completely stop their procreation? Because they'd lose their position with the Democratic leadership, that's why. The Democratic Party has made it clear that only a passion for unlimited, publicly funded abortions will punch the ticket upwards for aspiring Democrats. While such pandering is an obvious part of American politics, it is dismaying in general and downright sickening in the specific, when the specific in this case is the cost of many million tikes who haven't had a shot at eating a Happy Meal, wearing Osh Kosh B'Gosh, or annoying the hell out of their parents in the Wal-Mart toy aisle. Another tragic dynamic here is that the Black leadership is quiet on abortion in order to maintain their position within the Democratic Party, even though the platform of the Party is deadly to the community the Black leadership espouses to represent. Which is an irony too bitter for even me to chuckle. The Democratic Party is eroding away partially because it is killing off in the present those who would support it in the future.