Booker Rising provides a quote from Harry Jackson, Jr.:
"I want to call on all African Americans of faith to go the polls in two weeks and vote their values and their faith. Your vote will determine the moral direction of the nation for the next few years. We cannot sit back and wait for others to do the right thing or make the right move. It is time for blacks to take a leadership role in the nation. We must recognize the unique position to which we have been called by God. We can no longer be guilty of following blind men. Instead, we must cut a new path. With God on our side, we are not a minority; we are a majority! If men like Martin Luther King, Jr. had not dared to speak out as prophets of God against an evil and corrupt system, life for many of us would be unbearable today. The evils of pre-civil rights America would still be in full force. The courage needed today is a little different than the courage it took to stand up to dogs and fire hoses. Our civil rights heroes needed the courage to die for the cause. Today we must have the boldness to endure being misunderstood while we rebuild America’s moral core. We all know the issues that are of concern to the black community in this election. First of all, we are concerned about the war simply because so many of our family and friends are in the military. Yet, I cannot vote out one party because they 'started the war,' while condoning the genocidal murder of black babies within our borders. A little more than 2,000 people have died in Iraq and we don’t take that lightly. But what about the millions of black babies sacrificed on the altar of personal convenience? The most recent statistics say that 36% of the babies aborted in the U.S. are black babies---that amounts to 12 to 14 million casualties in America’s war on life since Roe versus Wade. Second, immigration reform is important to African Americans. The current liberal amnesty and porous borders approach to immigration is a part of what I call, 'The New Slavery.' Hispanic workers are taken advantage of by corporate employers and subjected to unsafe work environments and poor wages because of their current illegal status. This has directly affected black employment opportunities at the lower end of the employment spectrum. The result is a black unemployment level of over 10% versus a national unemployment level which is under 5%. We should advocate closing the borders, encouraging immigrants to obey the laws of the land, and refuse blanket amnesty. In addition, wealth creation (home and business ownership), education reform, criminal justice reform, health care access, protection of marriage, and promoting a culture of life are all hot buttons for thinking African Americans who embrace a biblical worldview."
Here is a point I think I have to make.
Immigration, employment, wealth creation, education reform, etc, are political stances not religious stances. So, what is the point of bringing those issues to the table? I'm not saying they should not be addressed, but why use the cloak of religious values, when they are not?
Here is something to think about: since "we" are having more abortions, proportionately, than others, than how does anyone expect the appeal to "pro-life" values to hold sway, unless the disproportionate number of abortions is done by a very small minority within the Black community?
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the genocide angle being any good. Now, if people showed a growing baby...
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