{"id":13141,"date":"2012-03-15T01:23:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T05:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/?p=13141"},"modified":"2013-04-02T20:35:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T00:35:59","slug":"washington-post-racist-to-defend-black-babies-from-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-post-racist-to-defend-black-babies-from-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post columnist: it’s racist to defend black babies from abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Lately, the mainstream media\u2019s been doing a pretty good job<\/a> of reminding pro-lifers that we hate women, but surely our malice isn\u2019t limited just<\/em> to women, is it? Of course not. Fortunately, dear readers, we have Washington Post<\/em> columnist Courtland Milloy to remind us that we’re racist, too<\/a>. Milloy claims the real intent of the pictured billboard, sponsored by Life Always’ “That’s Abortion” campaign<\/a>, is to \u201cshame the black woman, single her out by race and cast her body as the personification of sin and death\u201d:<\/p>\n

[T]he conservative effort now underway to overturn the court\u2019s decision is not just being waged on women\u2019s reproductive rights, but on the black woman as a person.<\/em><\/p>\n

Do white women recognize the difference?
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\u201cWhen you add racism to sexism, oppression manifests itself differently,\u201d said Paris Hatcher, executive director of an Atlanta-based women\u2019s advocacy group called SPARK Reproductive Justice Now. \u201cIn this country, it\u2019s okay to shame and blame the black woman, to pathologize and criminalize her behavior. Black women become the nannies, the mammies, the Jezebels.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That must<\/em> be it! Why didn\u2019t anybody see it before? Apparently the rest of us were taken in by Life Always\u2019 clever ruse of staffing its four-person Board of Directors<\/a> with two black men and one white woman, leading us to naively infer that the billboards were motivated by compassion for the innocent black girls killed by abortion. How foolish of us!<\/p>\n

Even worse, the \u201ccriminalization of the black woman serves to legitimize a sharp increase in the numbers of black women being incarcerated and the indignities they face behind bars,\u201d such as poor Ashley McCray, who was shackled and forced to have a C-section in prison:<\/p>\n

Testifying in February before the Georgia legislature, Ashley McCray, who is black, described what it was like being pregnant in the Cobb County jail \u2014 and giving birth while shackled.<\/em><\/p>\n

After removing the chains that had been tightly wrapped around her swollen ankles and stomach\u2014 and leaving one wrist shackled to her bed \u2014 McCray was pressured to give birth. \u201cGiving birth is painful enough on its own, but to tie me down to do it is torture,\u201d said McCray, who spent seven years in jail after being convicted of embezzling from an employer.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe this is just my ethnocentric ignorance talking, but I\u2019m having a bit of trouble discerning the racism here. There are circumstances under which men are shackled as well, and Milloy gives no reason to believe white inmates wouldn\u2019t be shackled during deliveries. The experience certainly sounds harrowing, but Ashley McCray\u2019s race was no more a factor in it than her middle name.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we say \u2018pro-life,\u2019 we mean the whole life, where conditions underlying the abortion rate are addressed,\u201d said Jasmine Burnett, lead organizer for Sister Song, an activist group in New York, as well as chairman of the mobilizing committee for Trust Black Women, a national coalition of black women\u2019s rights organizations. \u201cThose other pro-life groups ought to change their name because as soon as a black child is born, they stop caring about the life of the child.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, because nothing says \u201cI Heart Kids\u201d like advocating for their legally sanctioned dismemberment in the womb. Real compassion is defined by unconditional support for specific government social programs, regardless of concerns about cost, effectiveness, or implementation.<\/p>\n

In this battle over women\u2019s rights, the black woman and white woman have much in common. But race cannot be brushed off as a distinction without a difference.<\/em><\/p>\n

All anger is not equal.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s fitting that Malloy ends with the vaguest of insinuations. Smugly asserting the prevalence of racism among one\u2019s opponents is so much easier than refuting their arguments<\/a> and evidence<\/a> for the humanity of the unborn, accounting for disproportionate abortion rate<\/a> of black babies, or explaining why so many black men and women\u2014Dr. Alveda King<\/a>, Star Parker<\/a>, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson<\/a>, Ryan Bomberger<\/a>, and Pastor Clenard H. Childress, Jr.<\/a>, just to name a few\u2014stand up to abortion.<\/p>\n

Apparently if you\u2019re a black pro-lifer, then your race can<\/em> \u201cbe brushed off as a distinction without a difference,\u201d and white pro-lifers\u2019 motives are to be distrusted because of their skin color. Who are the racists again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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