Ga. Senate endorses bizarre anti-black conspiracy plot
Last week, the Georgia Senate gave sanction to a bizarre, destructive and racially condescending conspiracy theory. By a 33-14 vote, it approved a bill that purports to outlaw the attempted genocide of black Americans through abortion.
Under the bill’s language, a health care provider could be convicted of a felony and sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for performing an abortion “with the intent to prevent an unborn child from being born based upon the race, color, or gender of the unborn child or the race or color of either parent of that unborn child.”
The bill is inspired by a claim that abortion providers are engaged in a conspiracy to reduce the number of black children born in this country. As Georgia Right to Life has argued in billboards and other outlets, “black children are an endangered species” that need the protection of law against a campaign to eradicate them.
As proof of that campaign’s existence, Georgia Right to Life cites the fact that more than twice as many black women sought abortions in Georgia in 2008 as did white women, even though the state’s population is just 30 percent black.
They do not mention, however, that black women in Georgia also have a pregnancy rate almost twice as high as white women, according to statistics compiled by the Guttmacher Institute. Nor do they point out that the black birth rate in Georgia is about 60 percent higher than for white women.
Those numbers are hardly surprising. The high rate of out-of-wedlock births among black American teenagers represents a continuing cultural, social and economic challenge. Furthermore, liberals and conservatives alike can agree that abortion is not an acceptable solution to that problem.
The best approach is suggested by the fact that in societies around the world, pregnancy rates fall as levels of education and affluence in a community increase.
Until approval of SB 529, the dumbest legislation to pass the House or Senate this year had been a bill to outlaw forced implantation of microchips in human beings, which also passed the Senate. However, while it may rival the genocide-by-abortion bill in terms of weirdness, the microchip bill was at least largely harmless.
The abortion bill, on the other hand, puts the state Senate on record as endorsing the claim that black Americans are being targeted for elimination by health care providers. That’s absurd and flat-out wrong.
Debate over the measure reflected that absurdity. One Republican senator said it was a good thing that Barack Obama’s white mother didn’t choose to abort her pregnancy to avoid the shame of giving birth to a black baby. Sen. Tommie Williams (R-Lyons) argued that without the bill’s provisions criminalizing “coerced abortions,” we could find ourselves following the path of China, where abortions are mandated by government.
Sen. Vincent Fort, an Atlanta Democrat, detected “a whiff of mendacity if not hypocrisy” in conservative concern for black Georgians. Perhaps the most telling observation came from Sen. Hardie Davis, a black pro-life Democrat from Augusta.
“Some things,” he said, “cannot be legislated.”
(Davis was among nine senators who did not cast a vote on the final measure.)
There was a time in recent memory when the Senate was considered the more sane of the two chambers. Strange legislation usually emanated from the House and was allowed to die untouched in the more sober-minded Senate. That has clearly changed.
This year, versions of both the microchip and genocide-by-abortions bills were introduced in the House as well as Senate, but House leadership was wise enough to allow both measures to fade away unnoticed.
In the Senate, lunacy reigns.
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GoingBroke
March 30th, 2010
11:13 am
Who Dat.. its all good.. didn’t you know that ALL liberals and Obama think that America stinks and we should God d*mn America?
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:14 am
“If it is “not your problem” then you are just pontificating.”
Because I can.
“When you are ready to be part of the solution rather than part of the noise level you might get taken a bit more seriously.”
What’s the solution?
” NEWS FLASH you don’t get to set the rules for everyone just yourself.”
Never said I did. Just informed the readers about what works and what doesn’t work. Thanks.
HDB
March 30th, 2010
11:15 am
Who dat: It’s not TOTALLY a parent’s fault if they CAN’T (notice the meaning…rather than DON’T) teach sexual functions. Many that don’t know the REALITY of sex got their education from the streets…and that is passed to their children…and the domino effect commences. In order for some children to get the comprehensive sex education that is not given at home, it is done in the schools….for some, in Biology classes….in others, a full Sex Education Curriculum.
I disagree that Appalachia ISN’T on every street corner; generational dependence does not care where it is….just THAT it is!! What is evident in Atlanta, LA, DC…..is also evident in the hills of KY, TN, WVA…… Where it’s cocaine and weed in the cities, it’s meth in the hills. The problems are similar AND different…but moreso similar!!
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:15 am
“Who Dat.. its all good.. didn’t you know that ALL liberals and Obama think that America stinks and we should God d*mn America?”
Yeah, I’m reminded of it every time I read a Cynthia Tucker article. It’s all whiteys fault.
USinUK
March 30th, 2010
11:16 am
who – “To 10 year olds who are still playing with barbie dolls”
yep – and those 10-year olds aren’t far from starting to develop and menstruate. those 10-year olds are exposed to song lyrics, TV shows, magazines and older kids that encourage them to be more sexual before they even know what that means. making sure they understand what the heck they’re getting into – and encouraging them to keep themselves SAFE – is a GOOD THING. it’s not “wooing” – it’s telling all young people to take responsibility, to know the consequences of their actions.
age-appropriate sex ed
Southern Comfort
March 30th, 2010
11:16 am
GoingBroke
Have you spent any time patrolling the border?
Doggone/GA
March 30th, 2010
11:17 am
“Shouldn’t they have been all adopted by now?”
Once they get past the “cute baby” stage it gets harder and harder for them to get adopted. If they aren’t conventionally attractive to look at, or are handicapped or disfigured…it’s much, much harder.
AmVet
March 30th, 2010
11:17 am
who dat, glad you got to see the Arizona memorial, etc.
And I noted your completely avoiding the salient point of my assertion, your libelous claim of me as a poser and not a veteran.
Remember the five rules of dodge ball, who dat – dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge.
USinUK
March 30th, 2010
11:18 am
“It’s all whiteys fault.”
good gravy, if that’s true, I’m in a world of trouble … you don’t get much pastier than me …
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:19 am
“It’s not TOTALLY a parent’s fault if they CAN’T (notice the meaning…rather than DON’T) teach sexual functions.”
Are these supposed parents deaf and blind? Of course if their parents are Helen Keller and Ray Charles sure, if not………
“for some, in Biology classes….in others, a full Sex Education Curriculum.”
I learned Biology in Biology class. Not sex ed. I learned how to dissect frogs and pigs, not how to put on a condom. Something must have been seriously wrong in your biology class.
“I disagree that Appalachia ISN’T on every street corner; generational dependence does not care where it is….just THAT it is!!”
Not sure about you, but I don’t see Cletus and Bobbie Jean sitting in NY or Chicago breeding like rabbits.
“Where it’s cocaine and weed in the cities, it’s meth in the hills.”
Not sure what that has to do with inbreeding.
“The problems are similar AND different…but moreso similar!!”
not so.
JDW
March 30th, 2010
11:19 am
Dogone
“Maybe, but that situation is a bit too much like “adoptable” dogs…puppies are easy to place, but the older ones are not.”
Agreed that is an issue that needs better solutions. I bet if you took a poll of those kids they would still choose to have been born.
“And there’s still a 9 month gap between conception and birth. Are those “willing adopters” willing to pay BEFORE the baby is born to help ensure that it IS born?”
Many are and there should most certainly be health care available if not. Maybe we made some steps in the right direction there last week
“ And, regardless, it’s still the pregnant woman’s choice.”
That is the real issue, should it be hers alone or should the unborn child have rights that are protected? Thorny issue that will take a long time to solve, in the meantime it would be best to try and minimize the cases through education and support.
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:20 am
“And I noted your completely avoiding the salient point of my assertion, your libelous claim of me as a poser and not a veteran.”
You threw me off yesterday and I apologize for that.
Bruno
March 30th, 2010
11:20 am
“Remember the five rules of dodge ball, who dat – dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iXP9yoc4VY
Any other questions?
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:20 am
“good gravy, if that’s true, I’m in a world of trouble … you don’t get much pastier than me …”
Well, the UK isn’t the sunniest place on earth.
USinUK
March 30th, 2010
11:21 am
RJ – “Tell that to Bristol Palin”
well, evidently the rule is: if you’re quoted on CNN, whatever you say doesn’t count since their ratings are low.
or something like that.
JDW
March 30th, 2010
11:22 am
USinUK
“good gravy, if that’s true, I’m in a world of trouble … you don’t get much pastier than me …”
Have faith…summer is coming even in London. Get yourself one of those green striped chairs down at Hyde Park and watch the world go by!
GoingBroke
March 30th, 2010
11:22 am
SoCo.. Yes.. but for a VERY short time and not as a private citizen.
HDB
March 30th, 2010
11:23 am
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:15 am
“Who Dat.. its all good.. didn’t you know that ALL liberals and Obama think that America stinks and we should God d*mn America?”
Yeah, I’m reminded of it every time I read a Cynthia Tucker article. It’s all whiteys fault.
C’MON, MAN!! I’m liberal in many issues..but I couldn’t been the success that I am anywhere else BUT here!! If I hated America, why did I enlist to DEFEND it?? ALL liberals do NOT hate America!! In fact, we DO try to make it better for EVRYONE…..the methodology differs…but the desire is the same!!
In SOME cases, racism is the cause…and it must be called out and addressed; in others, it’s personal responsibility…and that needs to be emphasized!!
Let’s be real……OK??
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:23 am
USinUK
Ever see that Jonas Brothers episode of South Park. Sums up that problem pretty well. Subliminal sexual messages that Miley and Britney send out to kids.
FultonRighty
March 30th, 2010
11:23 am
Southern Comfort,
The foster care system is not the alternative to abortion. Single parenting is. Adoption should be.
Of the large number of kids in foster care, most are not currently adoptable because they are going through the process of their parents’s parental rights being terminated by the government for neglect and abuse, or they are shuttling back and forth to the bio parents to see if things will work out.
When almost ANY mother chooses at birth to entrust her baby in adoption, even if it has major medical need, Down syndrome, other issues, there are parents available to adopt. There are definitely families ready to adopt those who would be aborted or single-parented, if their bio mothers would make the decision to choose adoption.
USinUK
March 30th, 2010
11:23 am
who dat – 11:20 – you got that right. (rode the train this morning sitting next to my husband and across from 2 men as white as we both are … I swear, if we wore shorts and a tank top and you dropped us in the Afghan desert in front of the Taliban on a bright sunny day, the reflection off our pasty skin would permanently blind them … )
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:24 am
HDB
I don’t know you from anyone else on this blog. I never said you hated America.
“Let’s be real……OK??”
Fo shizzle.
Bruno
March 30th, 2010
11:25 am
BTW, USinUK, you never “revealed” (pun intended) what your beach attire was when you snagged your Brit hubby down in SoBe.
I guess what happens in SoBe STAYS in SoBe…..
Matilda
March 30th, 2010
11:25 am
“Single moms are glamorized by society.”
BULL*bleepl*!!! Sorry, BMPD, and others who want to make this a blog ride packed with fun-filled put-downs of women who enjoyed sex with someone other than y’all, but that’s BS. I *bleeping* CHOSE to keep and raise my baby instead of aborting, and it was the anti-choice woman-haters like the ones on this blog who gave me the most grief for doing so. FYI (not that it’s any of your business), I never took a dime of public assistance, never fleeced Daddy (though he did willingly participate in supporting his child, guess I’m “lucky,” huh?), and never coerced a man into a marriage neither of us wanted where I might have put his nads in a jar under the sink where so many of your wives keep yours. BTW, said “love” child is doing GREAT — good grades, no trouble, and just accepted into one of the best public universities in the country.
But it hasn’t been easy, and it hasn’t been glamorous, and women who made the tough choices and did the hard work like I did really don’t need or want your married-azz opinion about it. Thanks for listening.
USinUK
March 30th, 2010
11:26 am
who dat – 11:23 – can’t stand South Park … like Jonas Brothers / Miley / Britney even less … but totally agree with you about the “stealth message”
jdw – 11:22 – forecasters are saying it’s going to be a record-breaking summer this year … which a nice thought except most houses don’t have A/C since we don’t need it.
GoingBroke
March 30th, 2010
11:26 am
HDB
March 30th, 2010
11:23 am
That was stated with SARCASM.. what’s different between me saying something like that and another poster bringing up whats her name.. Sarah Palins daughter as a reference for PP.
I may be conservative in nature.. but I don’t follow blindly as so many of the Obama supporters do.
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:27 am
“ALL liberals do NOT hate America!!”
Let me revise that statement. All LEFTEST hate America. The Sean Penns, Michael Moores etc.. I’ll even throw in a Rahm Emanuel and a Noam Chomsky as extra bonuses.
USinUK
March 30th, 2010
11:27 am
Bruno – 11:25 – kneepads, baby!! and a helmet and wristguards … and loads of sunscreen!! we were there for the Great EsSkate weekend the SoBe skaters host every Feb.
FultonRighty
March 30th, 2010
11:28 am
Families are traveling to Ethiopia, China, Guatemala, etc. to adopt orphans, so it isn’t a racial issue, except that African American and many Hispanic women do not choose to entrust their babies to non-family members in adoption. They have a strong bias for keeping the baby in the birth family.
This was compounded by African American social workers who fought the placement of black children with Caucasian parents. That has relaxed hugely, especially for placements out of foster care.
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:28 am
“can’t stand South Park ”
My point is that episode basically pointed out how Disney exploits kiddy porn. For instance, when you see a Jonas Brothers concert poster, the little girls are reaching for their “junk.” It was one of the funniest episodes I’ve ever seen. Mickey Mouse was head of Disney and he beat up the Jonas Brothers for not wearing an abstinent band on their arm.
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:32 am
There should be a program called “The Blind Side Program” where black kids get adopted by super rich Taco Bell owning white parents who then turn the black kids into powerhouse defensive linemen.
Southern Comfort
March 30th, 2010
11:32 am
GoingBroke
You should know that the gun problem at the border is the movement of guns from the US to Mexico. I don’t think anybody has called ranchers protecting their property part of the gun problem. Some have called them crazy, but not the problem. I have friends down there popping vehicles loaded with guns/cash heading to the cartels there. It doesn’t help that we’re a gun-loving society. A few straw purchases here and there and the cartels pretty much begin to look like a militia. The one good thing is, they’re not getting fully automatic military weapons from here. I think there’s more control over the import/export of those.
Justice 4 Juan
March 30th, 2010
11:33 am
Strange that anti-abortion Bible thumpers are pro-Israel, where the firstborn son is murdered by the father.
Southern Comfort
March 30th, 2010
11:34 am
UnU
Does that mean that I have to hate you and blame you for all my problems?
HDB
March 30th, 2010
11:34 am
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:19 am
“It’s not TOTALLY a parent’s fault if they CAN’T (notice the meaning…rather than DON’T) teach sexual functions.”
Are these supposed parents deaf and blind? Of course if their parents are Helen Keller and Ray Charles sure, if not………
“for some, in Biology classes….in others, a full Sex Education Curriculum.”
I learned Biology in Biology class. Not sex ed. I learned how to dissect frogs and pigs, not how to put on a condom. Something must have been seriously wrong in your biology class.
“I disagree that Appalachia ISN’T on every street corner; generational dependence does not care where it is….just THAT it is!!”
Not sure about you, but I don’t see Cletus and Bobbie Jean sitting in NY or Chicago breeding like rabbits.
“Where it’s cocaine and weed in the cities, it’s meth in the hills.”
Not sure what that has to do with inbreeding.
“The problems are similar AND different…but moreso similar!!”
not so.
Let’s address this one-by-one:
1) “It’s not TOTALLY a parent’s fault if they CAN’T (notice the meaning…rather than DON’T) teach sexual functions.”
As I stated, the only sex education some parents receive is from the streets; for some, it was evident on the farm…but in the cities, that evidence is not available. Because the parent wasn’t given the knowledge, the child receives that same incorrect knowledge..and the domino effect continues.
2) for some, in Biology classes….in others, a full Sex Education Curriculum.”
Biology classes also included ASEXUAL and SEXUAL reproduction; that’s the beginning of sex education for some. The aspect of HUMAN sexual reproduction is begun in Biology…and continued in Sex Education. As I stated, I was blessed to have a BIOLOGY teacher as a parent!!
3) Not sure about you, but I don’t see Cletus and Bobbie Jean sitting in NY or Chicago breeding like rabbits.
Just because you don’t see it…doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. The circumstances ARE similar!
4) Where it’s cocaine and weed in the cities, it’s meth in the hills.”
Not sure what that has to do with inbreeding.
“The problems are similar AND different…but moreso similar!!”
not so.
These, I’m combining. Drug abuse is a large cause in the unmarried birth rate; many unwanted pregnancies occur due to drug usage and unprotected sex. As it is with cocaine and weed in the cities, it’s meth in the farmlands. Note the explosion of meth labs in rural America. THAT’s where the similarities exist!!
Bruno
March 30th, 2010
11:35 am
“Bruno – 11:25 – kneepads, baby!! and a helmet and wristguards”
That probably would have done it for me as well.
Of course, a good stiff wind still does the trick on most days….
Drain The Swamp (NIF)
March 30th, 2010
11:36 am
Just once I would like to see an affluent family of Blacks adopt a homeless white kid and that become a big movie.
USinUK
March 30th, 2010
11:38 am
SoCo – “Does that mean that I have to hate you and blame you for all my problems?”
yep. I’m the (wo)man. you know – the one that’s keeping you down.
sorry ’bout that.
Drain The Swamp (NIF)
March 30th, 2010
11:39 am
Justice for Juan
**Strange that anti-abortion Bible thumpers are pro-Israel, where the firstborn son is murdered by the father.**
So that happens in Israel? Really. The Israel that is on this planet? Not the Martian Israel.
I think you have your planets confused. You must have strayed for the National Socialist Workers Party Planet.
Beaves
March 30th, 2010
11:39 am
JDW, the GA. legislature is dimacrat, just because we have a GOP governor does not mean local government is republican. Please go back to school and get an education…
Dusty
March 30th, 2010
11:40 am
SoCo,
Seems to me the GEORGIA legislature saw the statics indicating that more black women than white were having abortions. Then came the accusation that this statistic showed genocide of blacks when there is already a law on the books which says that WOMEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE ABORTION. If more black women choose to have abortions, that is their right. Is that prejudice to state that?
Seems to me the GEORGIA legislature was trying to prove that they did not allow genocide in any form in GEORGIA. I think the liegialture did not need to go that far. But I imagine if you brought up Jewish abortions in Germany the citizens there would make an overall effort to show that they do not tolerate genocide for Jews.. .There is no genocide in Georgia, only the accusation.
Another thing..I do not think that everything done in GEORGIA is evil! Bookman subtly tries in every way he can to make our conservative state look bad. It is fairly easy with slanted journalism because you can find human mistakes in every population and capitalize on it..
But Bookman IS doing his job. He makes Democrats look good and Republicans look bad. That is what he was hired to do and that is what he does. But do keep that in mind when you read his “journalism”.
jefferson
March 30th, 2010
11:40 am
Is the GA Senate bored or what? Less gov’t, right.
Southern Comfort
March 30th, 2010
11:41 am
NIF
I’m waiting on that movie too. Hell, I’d just like to see an affluent Black family that isn’t affluent because of criminal enterprise.
UnU
So that’s your foot I’m always feeling on my neck holding me down…
Curseeeessss!!!
USinUK
March 30th, 2010
11:41 am
who – like I said, I’m with you about the “stealth message” – I thought that the Miley Cyrus quasi-pole dance on top of the ice cream truck for the Nick Awards pretty much summed it all up …
which is why – again – the best way to combat all these messages is knowledge-knowledge-knowledge. teaching kids to wait is ideal, but they WILL have sex one day – maybe when they’re teens, maybe when they’re in college – maybe after they’re married. one way or another, though, they need to know how to keep themselves safe and they need to know the FACTS, not old-wives-tales.
Bruno
March 30th, 2010
11:42 am
“yep. I’m the (wo)man. you know – the one that’s keeping you down.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2lNf2WHxeI
Mary wants to be a superwoman
And try to boss the bull around
GoingBroke
March 30th, 2010
11:43 am
On a lighter note.. to ease hearts and minds for a second.. even if you don’t like SouthPark.. you might enjoy this little clip.. safe for work.. no bad words..
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/222624
HDB
March 30th, 2010
11:43 am
FultonRighty
March 30th, 2010
11:28 am
Families are traveling to Ethiopia, China, Guatemala, etc. to adopt orphans, so it isn’t a racial issue, except that African American and many Hispanic women do not choose to entrust their babies to non-family members in adoption. They have a strong bias for keeping the baby in the birth family.
This was compounded by African American social workers who fought the placement of black children with Caucasian parents. That has relaxed hugely, especially for placements out of foster care.
To a point, you’re right…but what is also part of this is the FEAR that a child raised by out-of culture parents would NOT be able to teach the child about ITS culture…and totally submerge the child into another culture!! Caucasian parents can not TOTALLY (note the emphasis) teach a non-white child about that particular culture…and that child suffers culture SHOCK when placed in situations outside of the home that were not addressed!!
USinUK
March 30th, 2010
11:44 am
SoCo – 11:41 – yep – it’s easy to tell it’s me – I pronate.
Drain The Swamp (NIF)
March 30th, 2010
11:44 am
Dusty
I would be willing to bet that the Republicans were approached by Black leaders to pass this. It is common knowledge in the Black Communities (Yes, inaccurate, but common) so this was obviously a straw in somebody’s hat.
But of course since the Republicans have the majority, it’s their fault.
Someday, the democrats will hold their own leaders to task when they have a majority.
Well, no, not someday. I think the term is never.
Bruno
March 30th, 2010
11:44 am
“Hell, I’d just like to see an affluent Black family that isn’t affluent because of criminal enterprise.”
How about ‘Coming To America’??
Doggone/GA
March 30th, 2010
11:45 am
“should it be hers alone or should the unborn child have rights that are protected? Thorny issue that will take a long time to solve,”
It’s not thorny to me. No, the foetus does not have rights that need to be protected. As long as it is completely, and totally dependent on the woman it is not a separate being. It is a part of her body, and it’s her choice.
Southern Comfort
March 30th, 2010
11:45 am
Dusty
I can’t see genocide being a problem anywhere in the US, but that may be because I’m wearing my rose-colored shades today. It wasn’t considered genocide when crack cocaine was introduced to the black community, and I don’t think it’s genocide because one race decides to terminate their pregnacies more than the others.
What we need to do is get rid of the stigma of being a single mother. If I were female, I’d be worried about being labeled as a welfare mother if I decided to have a child. I know we can’t do away with all prejudices, but at some point and time, we have to quit trying to label everything just to fit our views of the world. If we do that, then the mindless partisans will have less fuel for their fires.
HDB
March 30th, 2010
11:46 am
Bruno…I think he meant a black AMERICAN family!! The Cosbys were only on TV!!
Southern Comfort
March 30th, 2010
11:47 am
How in the hell could I forget about that one Bruno?
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:47 am
“Just once I would like to see an affluent family of Blacks adopt a homeless white kid and that become a big movie.”
The Jerk with Steve Martin.
Drain The Swamp (NIF)
March 30th, 2010
11:48 am
HDB
** and that child suffers culture SHOCK when placed in situations outside of the home that were not addressed!!**
That might be true in 1955. But this cultural education is BS. What are they losing out on by not absorbing black culture. especially if they are not living in the middle of it?
Southern Comfort
March 30th, 2010
11:48 am
HDB
I was trying to remember any in movies at all. The only time you see any semblance of affluence is from movies made for and produced by blacks. I was trying to remember familes from any major movies from the major production companies.
FultonRighty
March 30th, 2010
11:49 am
Right, HDB. things changed some because everyone would agree that some cultural difficulty is hard, but not having a “forever family” and being raised in foster care until the teen ages out of the system is far worse. There is a lot of emphasis in many of these interracial families on teaching the best of the culture of origin, but also how to cope with the worst of it. I am watching it from the inside. One of my closest friends has two bio kids and two Afr-Am adopted-from-foster kids.
Southern Comfort
March 30th, 2010
11:50 am
I don’t think the black family in The Jerk was affluent.
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:50 am
“But Bookman IS doing his job. He makes Democrats look good and Republicans look bad. That is what he was hired to do and that is what he does. But do keep that in mind when you read his “journalism”.”
Cynthia Tucker admitted on her own blog that she doesn’t provide facts, just opinion. THAT is a huge factor in why newspapers and the media in general are failing. It’s why the Democrats need to start referring to themselves as the Democrat Socialist Party. That’s what they are. They are no longer the JFK Democrats. They are European style big government people.
HDB
March 30th, 2010
11:50 am
SoCo…I remember when it WAS stigmatized for a black woman to have a child out-of-wedlock!! Wasn’t that long ago!! Like I said before….welfare rules changing allowing the MALE to be taken out of the home accelerated the rate of single parenthood!! As you know, most black parents would raise the grandchild and assist the daughter with education. Now, education and SUCCESS AREN’T desired as it is easier for some to receive assistance!!
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:50 am
“I don’t think the black family in The Jerk was affluent.”
They were affluent in funny.
JDW
March 30th, 2010
11:51 am
Swampy,
“Just once I would like to see an affluent family of Blacks adopt a homeless white kid and that become a big movie”
In Newsweek just for you!
http://www.newsweek.com/id/194886
Bruno
March 30th, 2010
11:52 am
“What we need to do is get rid of the stigma of being a single mother.”
Have to disagree with you, SC. The stigma is there for a reason. Children from single-parent homes are at a disadvantage:
http://family.jrank.org/pages/1577/Single-Parent-Families-Effects-on-Children.html
From the link:
“In mother-only families, children tend to experience short-and long-term economic and psychological disadvantages; higher absentee rates at school, lower levels of education, and higher dropout rates (with boys more negatively affected than girls); and more delinquent activity, including alcohol and drug addiction…..Children in single-mother homes are also more likely to experience health-related problems as a result of the decline in their living standard, including the lack of health insurance (Mauldin 1990). Later, as children from single-parent families become adults, they are more likely to marry early, have children early, and divorce. Girls are at greater risk of becoming single mothers as a result of nonmarital childbearing or divorce”
stands for decibels
March 30th, 2010
11:52 am
I don’t know if these black folks come close to qualifying as “affluent” but it’s an interesting story, nevertheless.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/194886
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:53 am
JDW
According to the brothers Sharpton and Jackson, those people were not black enough.
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
11:55 am
This show brings back fond memories of a rich white guy who adopted his housekeepers boys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQMfN0UFqms&feature=related
Southern Comfort
March 30th, 2010
11:55 am
Bruno
We’ll have to agree to disagree on that. Those issues happen in single parent homes because there’s no support system or help for the single parent. Long gone are the days when people believed “It takes a village to raise a child”. Now, you can’t offer advice without the possibility of being sued or something. I think it’s a failure of our society to even have those disparages between single and two parent homes.
GoingBroke
March 30th, 2010
11:55 am
You don’t need a movie.. look at real life.. and the people we idolize.. every week you read about some rap person getting shot.. getting arrested.. etc.. that cannot help..
Bruno
March 30th, 2010
11:57 am
“How in the hell could I forget about that one Bruno?”
One of the funniest ever. And how about the scene in the beginning where Eddie Murphy is in the bath with the bevy of hot Nubian chicks??? James Earl Jones’s best role, IMO.
Loved “48 Hours” also, though EM had to take a lot of abuse from Nick Nolte before it was over.
HDB
March 30th, 2010
11:58 am
NIF – Understanding one’s heritage adds to one’s personal self-worth! Knowing where you come from motivates one towards making things better!! That’s what knowing about my heritage did for me…and others like me!! It also allowed me to see the best AND worst of ALL cultures…and I learned how to embrace the best…and avoid the worst!!
Assimilation into a society is also made easier by knowing where you started from!! Another reason that Black History Month is SORELY needed!!
FultonRighty: no argument with me on that point!!
SoCo: The black family in ‘The Jerk” was NOT affluent….and only through black production companies will you see films with affluent black families. Major production companies don’t see the value in portraying black people as successful…only in the criminal or comedic element!!
RB from Gwinnett
March 30th, 2010
11:58 am
Hey Jay, how’s the retraction of the rest of that Michael Steele story coming? You still thinking you can get away with laying all the hotel bills and limo’s on him personally? Man up and admit that’ s not the case and you failed in your “journalistic” duty to verify the story before you printed it. That would be the right thing to do, you know. That would be what a true professional journalist would do anyway.
Doggone/GA
March 30th, 2010
12:00 pm
“The stigma is there for a reason. Children from single-parent homes are at a disadvantage: ”
That is not a “stigma” – a stigma, in this context, is nothing more than a form of bigotry…based on the viewers perception of the Mother’s status as unwed. In other words, it is placing the blame on the child for something the Mother did.
jewcowboy
March 30th, 2010
12:00 pm
So how is this government not inteferring with freedom and liberty?
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
12:02 pm
“Another reason that Black History Month is SORELY needed!!”
Yeah, we need an entire year of black history month instead of the 6 months dedicated to it. We also need more black only churches, black only tv shows, black only movies, black only schools, black only food, black only clothing stores and black only hair salons. Oh, and we also need black only car companies now that Hummer has been discontinued.
USinUK
March 30th, 2010
12:02 pm
Bruno – “James Earl Jones’s best role, IMO”
helloooooo!!! Field of Dreams!!! “The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. Its been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But, baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and could be again.”
Jay
March 30th, 2010
12:02 pm
Fresh sheets, clean towels upstairs…
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
12:02 pm
“The black family in ‘The Jerk” was NOT affluent….and only through black production companies will you see films with affluent black families.”
Oh yeah, we need more black production companies too. We don’t have enough black only entities right now.
JDW
March 30th, 2010
12:03 pm
Beaves
“ the GA. legislature is dimacrat, just because we have a GOP governor does not mean local government is republican. Please go back to school and get an education…”
OMG thank you for pointing that out! All this time I have been laboring under the delusion that the Georgia Legislature has a large Republican majority. I think it has something to do with the fact that the Senate has 34 Republicans vs 22 Democrats and the House has 101 Republicans vs 79 Democrats.
But I see now that that was a well disguised plot by those damnable dimacrat’s to bring dishonor to our glorious Republication Governor and support that damn socialist in White House.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
For setting the record straight. Please do continue to share your keen insight with those of us that so need perspective.
Who dat?
March 30th, 2010
12:03 pm
“James Earl Jones’s best role, IMO”
WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!!!!!!!!
Darth Vader is James Earl Jones best role. Ever.
Dusty
March 30th, 2010
12:04 pm
SoCo,
As much as I would advocate for married parents for happy children, I still believe that we have a law that gives women of any skin color the right to decide about abortions. As long as that is available, I do not believe that marriage will stop abortions. It might lower the rate but not make it disappear.
You mentioned crack cocaine being introduced to the black community. Was it not introduced to anyone who would buy it? I can’t quite see that as genocide for the black community. It worked against all people who used it.
Yep, there will always be prujudice. It bounces back and forth between those who give it and those who receive it. Race, religion, nationality, habits…still hot items for prejudice.
Fortunately we live in America and have ethical people like you protecting us even if we get some things wrong and mess around trying to fix ‘em.
Gotta run. Always a pleasure to exchange ideas with you.
Southern Comfort
March 30th, 2010
12:07 pm
dB
That’s an interesting story. I’ve got multi-ethnic cousins on both sides of my family. I’ve never asked them anything dealing with race. When I see them again, we’ll have to talk so I can get their opinions on things like that.
The government will save me right?
March 30th, 2010
12:08 pm
can’t argue with Jay here…and that never happens. Amazing how the general assembly lets viable bills die and gets thus stuff thru.
AmVet
March 30th, 2010
12:12 pm
“You threw me off yesterday…”
I’m “evil” that way! (j/k)
“…and I apologize for that.”
And I gratefully accept it. Thank you.
The trick here it seems (and it is hard as hell to do sometimes) is NOT take this stuff personally.
Bro B and other friends, last night NiF, SoCo, Hillbilly and I were talking about the value of the gold reserves in Fort Knox.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=389bH5e2_2k
BMDPD
March 30th, 2010
12:20 pm
I am sad for so many. I am definitely not without sin, but we see the ramifications for disobeying the 10 commandments and glorifying those who do!
Matilda
March 30th, 2010
12:29 pm
BMDPD,
Once again, I never felt that my difficult choices were glorified. Quite the contrary, despite “choosing life,” I’ve gotten a lot of crap for it, especially from the “choose life” crowd, especially in the beginning. Now that I’ve proven myself (YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUIT), there are plenty of people who express their amazement that my love child did not wind up on crack, but rather, a parent’s dream child with a resume of accomplishments longer than most children of married parents I know.
But feel free do keep looking down your nose and judging others, though you know NOTHING about them personally.
BMDPD
March 30th, 2010
12:39 pm
Matilda, there are exceptions. So you are one. I don’t judge you.
Social engineering
March 30th, 2010
1:08 pm
Liberals don’t like to say it although it has slipped a few times in comments over the years. Liberals love the idea of social engineering. And part of controlling and engineering a society is to limit the number of disadvantaged children. Hence to them abortion limits the number of children, more specifically black children, with the idea being that less poor black children born to single mothers means less drug dealers, less criminals, less of a toll or economic drag on society in general. That’s why periodically you see studies done every few years, usually by liberal thinkers, showing a fall in crime rates that coincides with a rise in abortion rates. I don’t remember the study but there was a study done that supposedly showed 20 years after Roe v Wade in 1973 that the crime rates dropped. Why? Because there were fewer young black men raised in single parent households that were around to commit crime. Not saying I agree with any of this. I will say though that part of the alarming criminality rate of black men between 18-24 has a lot to do with most of them being raised in single parent households since nearly 70% of black babies today are born out of wedlock. The only people who will disagree with that are people who don’t like what I’m saying. They would rather shoot the messenger than read the message and understand it for what it is.
Obamanomics
March 30th, 2010
1:14 pm
On a side note Deklab county school board approves laying off 430 employees today. Obamanomics at work. You asked for change. You got it! Change you can believe in!
Anonymous
March 30th, 2010
1:32 pm
I fine your comments especially interesting that you are white and cannot comprehend how racism can affect every business, culture, etc – but poof – when it comes to targeting African Americans for abortion – racism is never there ! That is NONSENSE. Seems that if we want to solve racism in this nation, all we need do is get a panel of abortion providers like Planned Parenthood together and they can tell us how to make America a non racist society. BUT WAIT ! Wasn’t it Planned Parenthood’s very own founder, Margaret Sanger, who was a racist featured guest speaker for the KLAN ? Sanger received 12 invitations to give these rousing KLAN Speeches, by her own admission, guess she was discussing the pregnancy and STD rates among black to the KKK, right? …And – isn’t it – Planned Parenthood who now uses Margaret Sanger’s name, (remember – the former KLAN speaker) to extinguish their top award to mainly WHITE people who work for code word: “Reproductive Rights”? No, that couldn’t be true or surely, you and the rest of the ELITIST media would report it, right? And – I suppose that it wasn’t the progressive, pro-choice, Black Civil Rights Leader, Jesse Jackson who warned that birth control facilities in black neighborhoods were targeted genocide – NO – Surely no black leader never said that? YES THEY DID AND A LOT MORE. Find out what the elitist media is hiding and why they want these clinics to continue to “help” black women kill their children by getting the fully documented film: Maafa21 here: http://www.maafa21.com
shazzzzee
March 30th, 2010
2:12 pm
Lunacy? I’m not so sure… I went to Alaska last year, and spotted quite a few Planned Parenthood posters. Why the heck were most of the pictures of BLACK PEOPLE in the middle of almost lily-white Alaska?? Kind of put me on the spot, since I was one of only two blacks in the district — the friend I was with was the other one.
Have you guys looked at Margaret Sanger’s writings? She definitely wouldn’t be showing up for Hosea Feed the Homeless. And it explains why Hitler liked her writings so much.
(Check your history if you think I’m making it up…)
stands for decibels
March 30th, 2010
2:58 pm
From the wiki:
In 1930, Sanger opened a family planning clinic in Harlem that sought to enlist support for contraceptive use and to bring the benefits of family planning to women who were denied access to their city’s health and social services. Staffed by a black physician and black social worker, the clinic was endorsed by The Amsterdam News (the powerful local newspaper), the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Urban League, and the black community’s elder statesman, W. E. B. Du Bois.
Buncha Nazis, all of ‘em!
Anonymous
March 30th, 2010
3:09 pm
Sanger wrote to Clarence Gamble heir to the Proctor and Gamble fortune and an avoid member of the Eugenics Society that, ” We do not want word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro…” Sanger was also a member of the American Eugenics Society and Gamble funded her projects. Gamble also funded the North Carolina Eugenics Society through his Human Betterment Foundation ( Sounds so sweet, doesn’t it?) – According to recent newspaper reports on the NC Eugenics Society, in the 1930s and ’40s, African-Americans represented 23 percent of North Carolina sterilizations. That grew to 59 percent between 1958 and 1960 and finally to 64 percent between 1964 and 1966. So , we see that Sanger’s words to Gamble who funded that Eugenics Board came true. You can listen to the testimony of one of the African American Victims of that eugenics board in the film: Maafa21. You will also see proof that Planned Parenthood took and gave referrals to state eugenics boards and that the Arkansas Eugenics Society under the leadership of Hilda Cornish, was later renamed: Planned Parenthood under the same woman: Hilda Cornish. Is this just coincidence? Get Maafa21 for more of these “Coincidences” – http://www.maafa21.com
Patton999
March 30th, 2010
3:16 pm
Jay, your a fool, should I say Margaret Sanger and the Negro Project. I guess people forgot about that. How about blacks making up 12% of the population but having 30% of the abortions. Around 15 million have been killed since Roe v Wade. Now that’s some explaining to do and who promotes abortion in the black community, White Democrats and liberals that promote freedom of choice, and Planned parenthood.
Patton999
March 30th, 2010
3:18 pm
And if you don’t believe this, Sanger has a book and even used the Negro preacher to promote abortion, like a poster said earlier, it started in Harlem, and planned parenthood even gave MLK an award.
Psychdoc
March 30th, 2010
3:38 pm
As a grandmother of 3 bi-racial children, I saw first hand the racism that occured directed at my daughter and son-in-law and the pressure that some of the white members of the family tried to exert upon our daughter to “get rid of” the first since she wasn’t married to the dad at that time. If this law saves one family from going through that, it is worth it. Finally, my granddaughter has had comprehensive sex education and she is pregnant: youth, alcohol, and no family supervision = baby. Besides, statistics show that comprehensive sex education has not raised the use of contraception nor lowered the abortion rate. Show me your data. There is data to back up SB 529.
Eugenics and such
March 30th, 2010
4:00 pm
I don’t think there is any question that white liberals have the mindset that the black population needs to be controlled and they view abortion as a tool for that. White liberals are very paternalistic in their thinking. They believe that black people can’t think for themselves, can’t raise their kids to not be criminals or baby factories and so white liberals have to take the initiative and keep the masses of poor blacks under some kind of control such as population control.
Otherwise they feel that too many young blacks means a skyrocketing crime rate and a tremendous burden on the social services system. Too many of them means too much of an economic strain on the welfare system. Its a sick way of thinking but it seems pretty obvious to me that this is the way a lot of these white, elite liberals tend to think.
Atlantajan
March 30th, 2010
4:20 pm
86 percent of violent black Americans’ deaths are because of guns, but I sure don’t see the bozos at the State Capitol worrying about the effect that guns have on the African-American community. This is so blatantly dishonest, it’s ridiculous.
Matilda
March 30th, 2010
4:32 pm
Jeepers, this isn’t about what Y’ALL think for feel! And it’s not about anyone’s agenda or historical conspiracies. It’s about women, as individuals, having (a) determination over their own bodies and destinies, and (b) access to health care — preventive and otherwise. Some feel that women should be empowered by these, and some, like the Ga. Senate, think women should not. A woman in trouble, regardless of her color or background, really does not give a damn what you think. She has something to deal with, and it’s her business. Y’all need to get a friggin’ life of your own.
Atlantajan, excellent point!
John Birch
March 30th, 2010
4:40 pm
SoCo – We don’t need tolerance for single mothers, we need baby daddys to do the right thing for their children. As J jackson said, “any blank can make a baby, it takes a man to raise a baby”