My Thoughts on Loss of Black Lives
To the Editor:
It is clear to any thinking person that George Floyd was murdered by lawless law enforcers. Our country has rightly responded (the protests were fitting, the riots were not) with a desperate desire to display the truth that no person … man, woman, or child … black, white, or other should ever have their lives snuffed out like George’s.
What made George’s murder so horrific was that he bore the image of God and was given certain inalienable rights by that God. Rights which were stolen by Derek Chauvin. This has prompted our country to look at the systemic racism that is still with us.
For my part I want to “yes and amen” all my black brothers and sisters, fellow sons of Adam and Eve and fellow recipients of the free grace found only in Jesus Christ, as they cry out to have things changed. I want to see change as well … but I want them changed all the way down. Let’s not apply a band-aid to cancer. Let’s root the cancer out. I would like to add to the list of things to be changed the most systematic racial inequality in American history. The most devastating race based evil, that today is legally killing more black Americans than all police killings, HIV, homicide, diabetes, accident, cancer, and heart disease combined, is abortion. (https://www.grrtl.org/genocide/).
In 2011, the CDC released numbers which suggest that, since it has been legal to murder unborn babies in the U.S., 19 million black babies have been slaughtered. Today 28% of all black pregnancies end in abortion … would you hear this: over a quarter of future black men and women are being legally put to death in our day. Would you think about this quote from a black journalist from Arizona: “White women are five times less likely to have an abortion than black women. Perhaps this is a matter of availability. A study by Protecting Black Lives, in 2012, found that 79% of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities are located within walking distance of minority communities” (https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2020/02/25/abortion-the-overlooked-tragedy-for-black-americans/).
See these hate-filled racist words from Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger: “In a letter to Clarence Gable in 1939, Sanger wrote: “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” (Margaret Sanger commenting on the ‘Negro Project’ in a letter to Gamble, Dec. 10, 1939). This is an institution founded upon racist genocidal aspirations which continues to be the darling of feminist and liberal left politics … both of which claim to be the safe home for black Americans.
These statistics and quotes demonstrate without a doubt that, while I think abortion is evil in any and all cases, I think it is an evil aimed at black Americans like crosshairs. When will we reject the
When will we reject the claim of feminism that children are an inconvenience to be avoided at all costs and embrace the truth that they are gifts of God, they bear His image, and they will master the future if allowed to live? Planned parenthood, feminist thinkers, and mothers fall prey to their logic.
When will our men stand up and father the children they produce and husband the wives that they produce them with. It seems like a terribly simple solution but it is true nonetheless, that a resurrection of Christ-centered fatherhood is the only hope for our current situation. Remember that God began the judgement upon racist Egypt when He put it in the hearts of Jewish women to not kill their own future men. They didn’t obtain freedom by fighting the Egyptians but by protecting their own babies. How many would-be Moseses have been aborted before they could lead black Americans to freedom and equality? We will never know because they, like George Floyd, are gone.
We should all denounce as loudly and as unequivocally as we possible can, the murder of George Floyd and live so that such things cannot happen in a just society. But let us not neglect to denounce at least as loudly and unequivocally that when babies of any race are murdered in the womb it is a moral evil that must be stopped.
I will gladly take to the streets as soon as I hear the chant “All Black Lives Matter.” May God make it so.
Will Martin
La Grange