MSM Scoffs At 'Black Children Are an Endangered Species' Campaign

On January 25 a whopping 62 billboard signs sprang up in African-American neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia, all with the same message: “Black Children are an Endangered Species.” The two groups sponsoring the billboard campaign, Georgia Right to Life and the Radiance Foundation, intended the signage to be provocative. Black genocide demands attention — but not, apparently, from the MSM.

Nationally blacks comprise only 12.8 percent of the population but account for 36.4 percent of all abortions. Forty-three percent of all black pregnancies end in abortion. Put another way, “In the United States, the abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white women,” according to the Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s research arm.

Why? If you build it, they will come. According to Guttmacher, 97 percent of all U.S. abortion clinics are located in metropolitan counties, where minorities and the poor are most concentrated.

In Georgia the toll is worse. According to the CDC, 57.4 percent of all abortions committed there in 2008 were African-American. Georgia ranked first of all reporting states for the number of black abortions. All 14 Atlanta abortion clinics are ghoulishly nestled in minority neighborhoods.

The MSM, led by the New York Times on February 5, was quick to notice the billboard campaign, if only to disparage it as “contrary [to] federal data” showing “little evidence that abortions had made black children unusually endangered.”

This because the Times noted the fertility rate of black women “remains higher than the national average and has inched up in recent years, according to CDC data.” It just so happens the national average sucks, but so what?

Yes, the fertility rate of black women has crept back up to 2.15, while the fertility rate of whites is 2.1 and the U.S. fertility rate overall is 2.1. To maintain replacement levels, women must have 2.1 children each. So America would be barely sustaining its population, if not for immigration.

As the aforementioned statistics show, black children surviving their prenatal period is not for lack of trying to kill them. Abortion stats indeed demonstrate the lives of black children are most “endangered” before they are ever born. The Times purposefully missed the point.

While Times reporter Shaila Dewan went to a great deal of trouble looking up statistics, she did not verify even one outrageous pro-abort claim, such as:

[toomanyaborted.com] also says that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, wanted to reduce the population of blacks, an assertion that Planned Parenthood has disputed.

Yes, and? No need to check who’s right? Merely scratch the surface of Margaret Sanger’s history to find out, as even liberal Alternet admits, “There was a Negro Project instigated by Margaret Sanger. It was about birth control and family planning and was not about abortion.” Whether or not the last clause is true, the fact is Sanger sought to control black fertility. She was a racist eugenicist.

Dewan also quoted and then walked away from this false claim:

Loretta Ross, the executive director of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective in Atlanta, said… “The reason we have so many Planned Parenthoods in the black community is because leaders in the black community in the ’20s and ’30s went to Margaret Sanger and asked for them…”

Wrong.

Blacks were understandably suspicious of Sanger’s American Birth Control League for its focus on them. Sanger established her first experimental clinic in 1929 — in Harlem. Sanger spent the next ten years trying to make inroads with influential blacks. In 1939 Sanger launched “The Negro Project,” enlisting the help of prominent black religious leaders, leading her to famously write:

We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

Bottom line: Ross’s contention that blacks approached Sanger for help regulating their population is backward, and Sanger really didn’t get off the ground until the ’40s anyway. Dewan also quoted Ross as stating:

Controlling our fertility was part of our uplift out of poverty strategy, and it still works.

Abortion is certainly not “controlling fertility.” It’s murdering children. And it’s a sad day when a community embraces killing its own progeny to better itself. Pamela Merritt at RH Reality Check complained the real black genocide problems were:

• Black women are more likely to be diagnosed with cervical cancer at a later stage and are more likely to die of cervical cancer.
• Black people make up 13 percent of the population in the United States yet account for more than 49 percent of AIDS cases. AIDS is the leading cause of death for Black women between the ages 25 to 34, and the second leading cause of death for Black men between the ages 35 to 44.
• Black and Hispanic women have the highest teen pregnancy rates….
• Black women continue to die from breast cancer at alarming rates and a recent study found that half of Black teenage women reported having had one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases.

Every single one of those maladies would be stopped cold by greater sexual restraint and, ideally, monogamy. (Cervical cancer is caused by the human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually transmitted disease, and two known causes of breast cancer. one of them particularly virulent in the black community, are the birth control pill and abortion.)

To demonstrate how unreliable a source SisterSong is, one of its members blogged:

Anyone with eyes knows this is not true. In fact, the “Black Children are an Endangered Species signs” will eventually be posted in 80 spots before their two-month run is up the end of March.