I'm Not Really Black

Because I don't smoke crack, nor do I think and act like a victim of the oppressive white man, nor do I wear chains.

"Black is a skin color, not a disposition."

Lies in July, Exposed

Has anyone ever told you that the founding fathers of our nation were rich, white, racist slave-owning bigots? That is something like what I remember being taught in our public school system. Besides having history teachers (all of whom were white, by the way) who painted our nation's history as something boring, full of dates and facts I couldn't remember, and numerous videos of war after war - history was never really appealing. Why would I want to remember a bunch of white guys who enslaved my ancestors and continued to push "us" down? The American Black population were victims of the oppressive white elite.

This is a humungous lie! There are black founding fathers! Yes, I'm telling the truth! The founding fathers of the U. S. were not only mixed with black and white intelligent, hard-working, home- or self-schooled, courageous men, but they worked together! Our white founding fathers worked toward ending the slave trade! Many of them almost went broke freeing the slaves they inherited! It was one of the main grievances against Britain (besides religious freedom) as a reason for seceding. Don't believe me? See this video. Just a few of the featured men are:

James Armistead (LaFayette), a double spy

Oliver Cromwell

Prince Whipple

Frederick Douglass

Wentworth Cheswill, rode with Paul Revere

Peter Salem, war hero

Read the transcript HERE.

Creation Seminar in Garland, TX

A couple of weeks ago, Jeramy went to a church in TX to give a creation vs. evolution seminar. The pastor had been advertising for weeks and there was a great turn out, considering the size of the church. There were also some un-believing atheists in attendance! There was one particularly, extremely foolish man to come and try to steal the show - a real heckler. Jeramy kept his cool and even some of the little old ladies in the church yelled at him saying something like, "Sir, this is not your seminar! Sit down!"

Anyway, Jeramy recorded his seminars and was able to edit out that crazed heckler for our benefit. I am excited to hear it soon. Check it out. There are four sessions with the notes and audio on his blog. His talks cover a lot of ground from worldview positions, intelligent design, the Flood and dating methods up to racism. There is also a link to it in my top left sidebar.

Blacks an Endangered Species?: Digging For Truth

A Not-So-Silent Situation

An American Holocaust is occurring. It's happening right under our noses and with our full knowledge. It's going on behind closed doors and in open streets. We can see it in large cities and small cities all over the country. Mass murder is taking place by the millions each year. An unprotected group of people are being removed from the population.

Many refuse to believe that it's happening. They shield their eyes and choose to think about other things. Some know full well but decide that this is not a battle worth fighting. Others vehemently fight to allow it to continue based on some romantic ideal. And others, in an attempt to remain neutral, say it's not their battle to fight. We pick an excuse or create one of our own.

Only a select few actually see the carnage . . . the millions of dead bodies . . . the ones charged with disposing of them . . . in mass graves. It is covered up, so that the public can remain in ignorant bliss. If the public doesn't see it, then they can deny how widely it happens. They can resort to using philosophical arguments, opinions and personal preferences to advocate it's practice. But regardless of all attempts to stay uneducated and uninformed, the devastating results have already become evident.

While some elevate the democratic ideal above all other forms of government, it is this same form of government that won't give this unprotected group of people a vote. They are not allowed a voice. And in cases like these some take up a voice on their behalf because they have a passion for justice. It is this same passion that drove members of the underground railroad, abolitionists and soldiers - people who not only talked but laid down their lives for such a cause.

No More African Americans?

I'm speaking of abortion. After reading a post on Al Mohler's blog about the correlation between abortion and the population of the black community, specifically in Georgia, I became passionate at first but then I was driven to look closer at the actual data. The internet can be a very helpful place to find free information, but the reliability of said information is uncertain.

Depending on which sites you look it is very easy to allow oneself to be swayed by the bias. From the first reading it would appear that the black community is having so many abortions that we are wiping ourselves out and within a few generations, there would be no African Americans. And it doesn't stop there, most (not all) black people are pro-choice - they willing engage in ethnic suicide, as it's been called. Margaret Sanger has been labeled a racist eugenicist and her organization, Planned Parenthood, have been the objects of all pro-life advocates' hatred.

I was compelled to investigate all of these claims, having my own personal motivation of the status of "my people" (a totally different blog post) and trying to convert my pro-choice family members. I spent several hours of searching for answers and hard facts from what I thought to be respected reliable sources. In the end the statistics I found did not paint such a bleak picture.

The Hairy Numbers

Upon reading Mohler's post, I went to TooManyAborted.com, BlackGenocide.org, and Bound4Life.com besides reading the articles referenced in the post from the NY Times and LA Times. It was my goal to reference primary source data as much as possible. As Bound4Life sited the 2005 CDC statistics, I could not find them from the CDC website, but found them in The 2010 Abstract: US Census Bureau (Births, Deaths, Marriages & Divorces). I assume this is the best place for a thorough grasp of the actual reported numbers. Tables 80, 106, 99, 100, 113 show that white abortions still outnumber black abortions, percentage-wise but black fertility rates across the nation are higher (Table 80: Black 72.1/White 68.0 in 2006) but black infant mortality rates in Georgia are higher (Table 113: Black 12.9/White 5.8 in 2006). However, per 1,000 women, the percentage of black women getting an abortion is higher (Tables 99 & 100: Black 49.3/White 13.6 in 2005). This clearly indicates that black women are more inclined to have an abortion. It also shows that the black community should be growing each year (Table 80: showed 666,000 births and Table 106 showed 290,000 deaths in 2006. That's a 376,000 person growth in 2006 according to this data).

Black women are more than three times as likely to have an abortion than a white woman. The allegation that abortion clinics (specifically Planned Parenthood, PPFA) have been strategically located in low-income communities populated mostly by blacks may be true. I had a difficult time correlating the ethnic demographics with the specific locations of the PPFA clinics in GA. Upon reading about the Negro Project of PPFA, it has been said that the people, represented by black leaders, such as W.E.B. DuBois, actually requested they be placed there.

Margaret Sanger's articles and books are available to read for free online, linked through her biography on Wikipedia. I have read through 3 of her works (hardly a representative sample), and of what I read, there is no mention of the "feebleminded, morons, idiots," etc. being the whole of the black 'race'. There is no doubt she was a eugenicist. She viewed proper birth control through feminine hygiene as the only preventative to conception and abortion. She also urged the medical community to create a "miracle pill" contraceptive now known commonly as the Pill. I encourage you to read her own words for yourself.

And finally, from the Georgia Right to Life (Analysis of 2007 Stats for State and by County) and Planned Parenthood websites, I found that PPFA only has 5 clinics in the entire State of GA and that other facilities, most prominently, Summit Medical Centers, is the largest provider of abortions in Georgia. While PPFA claims to be the nation's largest provider of sexual and reproductive healthcare, that is not the case for GA.

The Assumptions & The Motives

Other sites and statistics may say otherwise, but I do not assume the final burden of proof. Any reader of internet websites make assumptions when they visit that the information is trustworthy, that the numbers represent an accurate accounting barring errors, that the survey is taken thoroughly and is evenly distributed across the survey area (i.e. U.S. or GA), that the majority of the actual numbers are reported, etc.

These billboards are a means of The Radiance Foundation to arouse African Americans to become angered and enraged at the amount of abortions taking place in the black community especially in Atlanta, Georgia. It's a cry for ethnic preservation. The motive is that most of the black community is pro-choice - of course, because they have so many abortions. If it were in my power to convince and change the hearts of my pro-choice family members to value the sanctity of human life at every stage, then I would do it in a heartbeat. But as long as the masses suppress the truth in unrighteousness, nothing short of divine regeneration is going to convince them otherwise. We still preach, we still stand, we still give charitable contributions, we volunteer, we give birth, we teach our children, we counsel, we adopt and do all we can to defend the most dangerous place on earth - the mother's womb - on behalf of those who have no voice.

Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless;

maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

Rescue the weak and needy;

deliver them from the hand of the wicked.

Psalm 82:3-4

Black History in the New Century

Two Sundays ago a cute little girl caught me and my daughter Lily in the bathroom at church.  After walking in she looked at me, then at the baby and asked me, "Are you taking care of someone else's baby or is that your baby?"

I smiled and replied, "That's my baby."

"Oh," she said.  "She doesn't look anything like me, does she?" I said, smiling.

"No." She said, then hesitated to say, "She has a light face and you have a brown face."

"Yeah, maybe she'll get darker later."  I said, still genuinely smiling.

Children can be very real without being malicious.  That's what makes them cute and special. :-)

It's interesting that so many African American things are happening right now, at the beginning of the turn of the century.  The United States National Slavery Museum opened in June 2006 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, not too far from where my Mom grew up.  Then in November 2006 there was a ground-breaking ceremony for a new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall, which hopes to be completed in 2010.  All are familiar with the events of this past election and subsequent January when Obama took the oath for the President of the United States.  Finally, I read yesterday in the NY Times that the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. has contracted a design team for a National Museum of African American History and Culture to be built just across 14th Street from the National Museum of American History.  This new museum is projected to be completed in 2015.  All this makes my head spin.

In light of these current events, one might hope that racism and prejudice in the U. S. have also died out but it is still present.  Jeramy and I had hopes of a leadership position in a church in Garland, Texas (near Dallas), but were rejected because the music minister's wife was racist and made threatening comments to the search committee.  That sin has been dealt with by their pastor and after they had repented and asked us back, it was too late for us to go - the ship had sailed.

Inter-ethnic marriages and families still turn heads in the southern states.  One day after Jeramy and I married, we stopped in Charleston, West Virginia to eat and the looks we got were a little condemning.  My American black friend and his white wife from the Czech Republic live in Alabama and are treated like second-class citizens.  She sent me a few msnbc videos about it.  A white couple I befriended in Seminary adopted a black child and live in DeSoto, Missouri.  They always get comments like, "Why adopt a black child?"  And this precious baby was originally destined for abortion, but the mother couldn't afford it.  Did you know that minority groups, black and latino, have the highest rates for abortions today?

The Bible is very clear that people of all tribes, nations, tongues, peoples and languages descended from two persons created in God's image with all the genetic variability needed to make what we see today.  When the language was confused at the Tower of Babel, environmental stresses brought about the distinct visual characteristics of ethnic groups.  The "Hamitic curse" only applied to his son, Canaan, which was wiped out when Israel took over the Promised Land.  And the Apostle Paul, as he preached on Mars Hill in Acts 17, proclaimed that God "made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation . . ."  Genetically speaking, differences in skin color, eye shape, etc. only amount to 0.012% of genetic variations.  (Ken Ham, et. al. One Blood, The Biblical Answer to Racism. Green Forest: Master Books, Inc., 1999. pp. 54. ISBN: 0-89051-276-0)

Answers in Genesis is an excellent resource ministry that scientifically combats evolutionary worldviews, such as racism, from a Biblical presupposition.  It is worth checking out.