The mission of Black Americans for life is to encourage African Americans to break the silence with regard to the tragedy of abortion in our community. We believe that if we equip Black people with the facts of this modern day genocide, they will respond and surely work to end the killing of black children.
Last Thursday I attended an awards luncheon for Black Americans For Life at the U.S. Capitol (See this post). Several people were given awards for their contributions to the pro-life movement, particularly for their work in the black community. I’d never seen so many black people in one place uncompromisingly condemning child killing, not even in the church I attended while growing up.
I was in a room full of outspoken people gathered together to honor those with the courage and audacity to declare child killing genocidal evil. They believe life begins at conception, just as I do. Pictured with me above is Day Gardner, National Director of Black Americans for Life, founder and President of the National Black Pro Life Union, and member on several state boards in Maryland. (A commenter asked about joining the organization, which I also plan to do. Day can reached at DGardner@nrlc.org.)
I sat next to a woman who works for an organization called the Right to Life of Montgomery County Educational Foundation. She sets up tables outside child slaughterhouses to give women facts about the development of their babies and alternatives to abortion they won’t get inside. Another table companion was a man who works for the American Life League. Others worked for organizations like The Gabriel Project and the Catherine Foundation Pregnancy Care Center.
I also ran into an old friend from undergrad. Alvin Williams is the president of the Black American’s Political Action Committee. He was a black Republican at a historically black college. Brave. One day he invited a local Republican candidate to the school, and a group of us showed up to heckle them both. Eons later, Alvin and I are on the same side. He was pleasantly surprised.
A President Bush appointee to the Domestic Policy Council, Claude A. Allen, gave the keynote address. He talked about his commitment to protecting unborn life and his role in advocating a United Nations declaration against human cloning.
Alveda King (on the right), the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., was a special guest, and she lead us in prayer and song. She knows firsthand the mental and physical pain of abortion, and the forgiveness or Christ. The mother of six had two abortions; one was involuntary.
The first award recipient was Dr. Kay Coles James, former director of the Office of Personnel Management. She is a pro-life commentator and travels the country speaking on behalf of the pro-life movement. Dr. James told us a very interesting story. Years ago she wanted to debate Faye Wattleton, a black woman who was president of Planned Parenthood at the time. Wattleton didn’t want to debate her because she wasn’t important enough, i.e., the president of an organization. The National Right to Life Committee formed Blacks Americans for Life and made Dr. James the president. 
Wattleton still wouldn’t debate her.
The second recipient was Dr. Johnny Hunter, a pastor and National Director of the Life Education and Resource Network. The organization develops pro-life projects, including the Sanctity of Life Curriculum, the African-American Community Outreach, and the Study of Genocide and Eugenics. Dr. Hunter is an outspoken advocate for the unborn, and he talked about his arrests for preaching the Gospel outside abortion clinics. He described himself as an activist who recognizes the need to pass the torch to the next generation. He literally passed the torch that day.
Introduced by a young black college student, Dr. Hunter asked the young man to stand at the podium with him as he gave his short speech. The student didn’t look like the typical pro-life conservative. He wore a suit, but he also wore his hair in braids. He broke all “black Republican” stereotypes. Throughout his speech, Dr. Hunter would turn to him, stressing the need to be active in the movement. He ended with a bang. Dr. Hunter picked up the award and said although he’d love to take it home and put it on his mantle, he wanted the young man to have it.
That symbolic gesture was touching, packed with so much wisdom, passion, and hope. The young man couldn’t hold back his tears, and neither could some of us. It was a moment the student will never forget.
The third award recipient was Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson (in retro black and white), the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School in 1951 (scroll down to second set of photos), and she did it under legal segregation and without skin color preferences. The Texas native has had a career-long interest in medical jurisprudence and ethics, and she spoke out against the decision to starve Terri Schiavo. She’s also on a crusade to support a ban on embryonic stem cell research.
I was introduced to Clenard Childress of BlackGenocide.org, but our conversation was much too brief. I’ve linked to his site several times, especially this page (Warning: graphic photos). I encourage you to visit his web site and read the articles about Margaret Sanger, creator of the “Negro Project.”
You’ve read the statistics. Black women are three times as likely to kill their babies through abortion. Only 12 percent of the population, blacks account for 35 percent of the abortions in the U.S. And to think that blacks are still whining about the genocide of the African slave trade.
Since Roe v. Wade, over 43 million babies have been killed. Over 14 million of those babies were black. It’s a shame when any child is slaughtered, no matter the color, but the people I met at the luncheon were focused on black babies for a reason. They’re killed at higher rates, and Planned Parenthood clinics are concentrated in inner cities, which have majority black populations.
Planned Parenthood is under the gun for failing to report the sex abuse of minors. The organization “counsels” girls under 14 who’ve said they’ve had sex. Such activity is presumed to be statutory rape if a child is under the age of 14. For all the organization knows or cares, the girls’ partners could be and probably are grown men. A judge in Indiana just ordered the local “clinic” to turn over records of patients under 14. Will the organization be fined and/or shut down for protecting child molesters? The southern border would be closed down before that happened.
What did I learn that day? That blogging about the evils of abortion and protecting the unborn isn’t nearly enough, only a good beginning. I need to be involved, hands-on, with the pro-life movement, if only to encourage others to speak out against child killing. The black pro-life movement doesn’t have a strong online presence, and I may be able to help change that. I’m a political blogger with a fair amount of name recognition, and I need to use whatever influence I have to get the message out.
I was in good company that day, surrounded by praying, pro-life conservative Christians.
Related posts:
- Irreverent Reverends II
- Black Women and Child Killing
- Incompatible Kerry’s Immaculate Deception
- The Enemy’s Influence
Sources: Planned Parenthood Perversity, African American Prolife Alliance, LifeNews.com, The Alan Guttmacher Institute…
