Posted on 06/08/2007 5:42:39 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The nation's largest organization representing black Americans is cutting staff and closing down some of its regional locations in the face of declining donations. The moves come on the heels of a flip-flop on abortion and some black leaders saying abortion is distracting from civil rights issues.
The NAACP took an official position in favor of abortion in early 2004, a stance it quietly rescinded months later after significant backlash.
A poll conducted by Black Enterprise Magazine found that 60% of African Americans disapproved of the decision.
Then, last year, the Revs. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Joseph Lowery kicked off a three day event in Dallas and said abortion has been used too much to block discussion of issues like voting rights and affirmative action.
Now, the NAACP is cutting its staff of 119 down to 70 and with close some of the offices around the nation that it operates.
"We are right-sizing our organization to meet present circumstances," interim President and CEO Dennis Hayes told The Baltimore Sun.
NAACP communications director Richard McIntyre told the newspaper that "All our bills are paid, and there's money in the bank" but said the organization has used about $10 million in reserve funds to pay bills and debts because of a downturn in donations.
"It's the same type of situation where if you find yourself going to your savings more than you would like to, you're going to make changes," McIntyre said.
Mychal Massie, chairman of the black conservative group Project 21, told the Cybercast News Service that the NAACP's financial woes are no surprise because it ignores the real plight of black Americans on issues such as abortion.
"[T]hey're not addressing the very real ills in the black community" such as "out-of-control abortion, which amounts to nothing more than black genocide."
In fact, abortion has adversely affected the African-American community and Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., notes that abortion has disproportionately affected black Americans.
While black women constitute about 13% of the childbearing population, they have over one-third of the abortions. The abortion rate of black women is three times higher than that of white women and 60% of African-American women who become pregnant will have an abortion.
More than 14 million abortions have been done on black women and abortion businesses are frequently located in minority communities.
"I join the voices of thousands across America who can no longer sit idly by and allow this horrible spirit of murder to cut down," King says. "If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is to live, our babies must live."
Meanwhile, polls show black Americans are pro-life and supporting pro-life candidates in greater margins than before.
In an August 2004 survey sponsored by Pace University and Rock the Vote, 54 percent of all Americans declared themselves pro-life while just 44 percent said they supported legal abortion. However, African-American voters took a pro-life position by a larger 59 to 42 percent margin.
Now they will only represent negros. Other coloreds are out after the cut backs.
“Can anyone tell me where the NAAWP holds its meetings?”
IIRC David Duke headed up an organization called that. I hope you’re not of that mold.
The NAACP has outlived it’s mission. It no longer advancing it’s only whining.
The idea that te NAACP would back abortion has got to have had Marget Sanger rising out of her grave and cheering. It was her main purpose for founding Planned Parenthood.
100 years from now, our great grandchildren will look back at the late 20th and early 21st century and be completely revolted. They’ll look upon our practice of infanticide in much the same way as we today look at slavery during the 19th century; as an utterly amoral practice and a serious crime against humanity.
The irony here is that insomuch as slavery was practiced largely against our black bretheren, the scourge of infanticide falls disproportionately on our black bretheren as well.
My great-grandchildren will at least be able to say that their great-granddaddy was an Abolitionist.
“I think within 20 years, the GOP has a very good chance of changing the black political allegiance from Dem to conservative GOP.”
If the GOP were actually a conservative political party, it could happen. But since the GOP isn’t, I don’t see it in the cards.
I see a better chance for a conservative second party emerging from the ashes of the GOP, and then *that* party attracting a significant portion of the black population. I think there are enough black Americans who are tired of the rehashed socialism that imitates civil rights advocacy.
Actually it has disproportionately affected infant-Americans.
Seriously, one wonders how a group can claim to be disproportionately affected by something called "the right to choose." The disconnects are staggering.
As a mental exercise, try to imagine what would happen if someone proposed a law that provided taxpayer funded abortion on demand for black women. It would be amazing to watch the liberals turn themselves inside out trying to decide which side they need to be on. They would be stuck having to support genocide, or admitting that it is infanticide.
Just to clarify, I don't support that kind of legislation.
I have a great deal of respect for Dr. Peterson and none for Margaret Sanger but a large part of what is written about her is simply not true and comes from ONE source, Tanya L. Green. She picked a few quotes and purposely took them out of context to build a racial case against Planned Parenthood.
Instead of reading what people with obvious agendas write about her, read her writings yourself. I have. It won’t take you long to realize she was just a foolish, misguided liberal. She was no more, and probably less, racist than anyone else in her day. Planned Parenthood did come about because of her and that’s plenty to hold her in disdain. Lies are wrong, even when spoken about someone as destructive as Sanger.
I was wondering what ever happened to “Afro-American”?
I believe most politically correct colleges teach “African-American Literature” in “Black Studies” programs. So it looks as if both terms are politically correct.
Actually, African-American is preferred to Afro-American, I suspect because the term has been overtaken by the prominence of the word “afro.”
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