Posted on 08/28/2008 2:38:35 PM PDT by Mount Athos
On today's 45th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Dr. Alveda King - a pastoral associate for Priests For Life and niece of the late civil rights leader - released this statement: "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a man of God, a man of great compassion, and a man of non-violence, once said, 'The Negro cannot win as long as he is willing to sacrifice the lives of his children for comfort and safety.' I know in my heart that if Uncle Martin were alive today, he would join with me in the greatest civil rights struggle of this generation - the recognition of the unborn child's basic right to life.
"My uncle Martin would agree that we cannot end poverty, hunger, or suffering by killing those who might suffer. We cannot claim to guarantee equal rights if we deny the rights of the helpless. And we cannot feign ignorance of the fact that those who are torn apart, crushed, or left to die on an abortionist's table are just as human as we are.
"My uncle said that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. There is injustice in our land. We have turned being unwanted into a crime penalized by death. Today, I echo the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - let freedom ring. From every mountain top, let freedom ring for all Americans, wanted and unwanted, born and unborn."
One more slap to the Obamessiah who will try to claim King’s legacy tonight.
Very powerful statement she made and one that takes away many of the liberals' arguments for killing babies.
Ouch! That’s going to leave a mark.
Iirc, other King family members disagree. It's risky attributing positions to the dead, if they didn't make a clear statement while living.
Iirc, other King family members disagree. It's risky attributing positions to the dead, if they didn't make a clear statement while living.
Does anyone truly think Dr. King would be cheering and applauding all the blacks who have aborted literally MILLIONS of their own children? You really believe he’d be for Obama - the guy who has no problems killing kids AFTER they have been born?
Tell BLACK Obama to stop killing fellow BLACKS:
Planned Parenthood targets blacks
Washington times ^ | 082508 | Editorial
Planned Parenthood, a self-styled “health care provider” and “informed educator” on women’s sexual health, has been promoting abortion since its inception in 1916. This has had a devastating affect on America.
Since the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which overturned most state and federal laws outlawing or restricting abortion, an estimated 48,6 million babies have been aborted, according to the National Right to Life Committee. In particular, blacks are disproportionately impacted by abortion. Is Planned Parenthood deliberately acting to reduce the black population? Is it practicing a form of eugenics?
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, 13 percent of the U.S. population is black, but 37 percent of all abortions are performed on black women. More than 10 million black babies have been aborted since 1973. Black women are 4.8 times as likely as white women to have an abortion. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also indicates that one out of every five white pregnancies ends in abortion, whereas one out of every two black pregnancies ends in abortion.
In a July op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, former Bush speechwriter and current Journal columnist William McGurn, rightly called upon the NAACP to be more active in providing alternative organizations for pregnant black women - institutions that will support them rather than speedily eliminate the unborn. He cites the moving words of Alveda King, a niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King, who had two abortions and subsequently changed her perspective: “I remember when I was pregnant and considering a third abortion. I went to Daddy King [her grandfather]. He told me, ‘that’s a baby, not a blob of tissue.’ Unfortunately, 14 million African-Americans are not here today because of legalized abortion. It’s as if a
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/25/planned-parenthood-targets-blacks/
Not only does the Obomination want abortions - he advocates INFANCIDE! Blacks are the targets!
Is BHO black on the left or white on the left?
Bad Karma...
I know in my heart that if Uncle Martin were alive today, he would join with me in the greatest civil rights struggle of this generation - the recognition of the unborn child's basic right to life.
Iirc, other King family members disagree. It's risky attributing positions to the dead, if they didn't make a clear statement while living.
Indeed.
I appreciaet what Ms. King is doing, but she surely knows her uncle was not an orthodox chr*stian at all but a liberal "social gospel" advocate. The fact that she still has to use him to justify a pro-life position is a powerful illustration of how great a hold her slain uncle has on the Fundamentalist Black masses, who are as ignorant of his theology (or lack thereof) as the Fundamentalist white masses are of the theology (or lack thereof) of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln.
I take it she has not been invited to be on the stage with Barack tonight.
Amen and preach on sister,
but will you vote for obamunism because it is historic?
Well, a person doesn’t have to an orthodox (in any sense) Christian to be pro-life. Doesn’t have to be religious at all, as Ramesh Ponnuru so ably demonstrated in his book, “The Party of Death.”
I’m not aware of any writings or recorded speeches of Washington, Jefferson, or Lincoln relevant to this point, although public support for abortion really didn’t exist in their times. (Jefferson, as a pointy-headed “rationalist,” seems the most likely to have taken that position, if it ever came up, but that’s just a random thought.)
I think that the adoption of Martin Luther King, Jr., as a messiah-figure is at least a spiritual factor in the decline of personal morality among black Americans. If he slept around - a lifestyle associated with support for legal abortion, btw - what’s wrong with every other man’s doing it?
This is from WikiAnswers.
Was the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Pro-Life’?
Direct quotations answering this subject are rather scanty. With such a provocative subject, it is necessary to be quite precise.
Without citing his sources, the African American Reverend Clenard Childress, New Jersey Director of the Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN), at the West Coast Walk for Life, San Francisco California, January 19, 2008, made this statement:
“So St. Telemachus, and those that joined with him, Martin Luther King talked about, when he was fighting his cause. He said, ‘infanticide, or infant killing, was stopped by the early Church, that was willing to risk their lives, to go out into the public square, and scoop up children that were destined to die’.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh-vsqitYIs&feature=related
Some commentators have noted that Dr. King supported Planned Parenthood. However, it should be noted that as recently as 1963 Planned Parenthood proclaimed itself against abortion - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185302/posts .
(In her seminal, 1963 feminist manifesto The Feminist Mystique , Betty Freidan didn’t even mention the word ‘abortion’ - see http://www.bgmh.org/Seeking_a_Sociologically_Correct_Name_for_Abortion_Opponents.htm .)
We have a show here in Detroit on 1400 Saturday Mornings called “Joshua’s Trail” hosted by Pastor Levon Yuielle
http://joshuastrail.org/about.htm
It has been discussed whether any of that Great Black Leaders would have been Pro-Life if it had been revealed to him the Black Genocide planned. Of course, the answer is “No Way”
Leaders = Leader
It's easy to say that after they're dead, though. What percentage of blacks are going to vote for Barack Obama, who's pro-infanticide? Even people like Armstrong Williams and J.C. Watts are talking about voting for him, although I hope their consciences will stop them before they really do it. There's some kind of major cognitive disjunction that has black people voting for black people who support killing black people.
>>There’s some kind of major cognitive disjunction that has black people voting for black people who support killing black people.<<
No there isn’t. That is a broad generalization. My black sister told ME about Margaret Sanger. Those that are educated learn.
Perhaps these two African-Americans who knew the Right Reverend will bring the focus on abortion for what it is. How much have we, any of us, heard of Sanger’s Eugenic quotes? Nothing in the MSM. How to we expect this info to get to the run of the mill black voter unless someone tells them?
And yes, my sister is NOT voting for Obama, nor her girls, their husbands or my hubby’s niece who just turned 18. All but the last are 100% Black and know the truth.
That's an excellent point. I'm pleased to be informed of a different set of facts!
90% of you blacks don't judge anyone on their characters, but on his skin color. MLK would be angry with you!!
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