The Genocide of the Black Community
The state legislature of Georgia is considering a bill that would outlaw abortions based on race and gender.
The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act would apply to abortion "the same standards of nondiscrimination" that govern employment, education, government and housing, said Georgia state Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a Republican who introduced the bill. It brings up the question, is there a reason for this bill? Guttmacher Institute figures say that of 1.2 million abortions obtained in 2005, 37 percent were to black women. Blacks make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population. "We are not demonizing black women," said Catherine Davis, director of minority outreach for Georgia Right to Life, to CNN last week. "What we are saying is that the abortion industry has targeted, specifically, the black community.The goal is to alert the community and awaken the community," she said.
This systematic destruction isn’t a phenomenon that just started in the 21st century; this goes back to the first time American sailors set feet on the black continent, Africa. Angela Davis, a noted Black activist and former Black Panther noted, “Judged by the evolving nineteenth-century ideology of femininity, black women were practically anomalies.” From our introduction to this country we as Black women were exiled from the White ideal of womanhood.
Dr. David Pilgrim, and professor of sociology at Ferris State University described the first contacts Europeans had with their African counterparts. “European travelers sailed to Africa and through their ethnocentric eyes viewed the local dress and tribal dances as lewd and proof of the insatiable sexual appetite of the savage natives.” Never did they stop to think that the heat and the lack of wooly animals could have been the reason for the scantily clad natives they found. The African custom of polygamy, which is still practiced by many African tribes, was thought to be another indicator of the savage’s sexual appetite. These views fueled the myth of the Black Jezebel. “Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can’t we just be the sexy American girl next door?” Supermodel Tyra Banks‘ words captured the raging battle that African American women, who are solely defined by their sexual appetites, still face to this day face. Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg, a professor at Northeastern University said, “ White men not only appropriated the children of Black women under slavery, they also appropriated Black women bodies through rape. And, when their offspring bore silent witness to rape, these men profited from the unholy harvest by selling their own children and justified their violent subordination of Black women by labeling them promiscuous seducers.”
Not only were black women blamed for seducing white men into raping them they were blamed for the ills of the black community. Historian Philip A. Bruce in 1889, explicitly tied Black women sexual impurity to our dangerous mothering. He reasoned that Black women promiscuity not only provoked Black men to rape white women but also led the entire Black family into depravity. Professor Howard Odum, at the University of North Carolina attributed Black’s poor home life partly to the sexual and domestic laxity of Black mothers. Decadent Black mothers, are then responsible for the menace to society that the black family poses to the American social order. Something had to be done. North Carolina, in 2003 became the first state to work to rectify its role in the near successful genocide of the Black race. A campaign that took the right to bear children away from an estimated 450,000 black women, according to the United States Government Accounting Office in 1977.
First the United States government tired to rid of the country of the Black menace by targeting black women, when that became illegal the focus was shifted to black children with abortion rates that far outstrip the Black population. Georgia a southern state that fought for the south’s right to keep slaves has become the first state to realize this and they are trying to correct it.
The state legislature of Georgia is considering a bill that would outlaw abortions based on race and gender.
The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act would apply to abortion "the same standards of nondiscrimination" that govern employment, education, government and housing, said Georgia state Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a Republican who introduced the bill. It brings up the question, is there a reason for this bill? Guttmacher Institute figures say that of 1.2 million abortions obtained in 2005, 37 percent were to black women. Blacks make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population. "We are not demonizing black women," said Catherine Davis, director of minority outreach for Georgia Right to Life, to CNN last week. "What we are saying is that the abortion industry has targeted, specifically, the black community.The goal is to alert the community and awaken the community," she said.
This systematic destruction isn’t a phenomenon that just started in the 21st century; this goes back to the first time American sailors set feet on the black continent, Africa. Angela Davis, a noted Black activist and former Black Panther noted, “Judged by the evolving nineteenth-century ideology of femininity, black women were practically anomalies.” From our introduction to this country we as Black women were exiled from the White ideal of womanhood.
Dr. David Pilgrim, and professor of sociology at Ferris State University described the first contacts Europeans had with their African counterparts. “European travelers sailed to Africa and through their ethnocentric eyes viewed the local dress and tribal dances as lewd and proof of the insatiable sexual appetite of the savage natives.” Never did they stop to think that the heat and the lack of wooly animals could have been the reason for the scantily clad natives they found. The African custom of polygamy, which is still practiced by many African tribes, was thought to be another indicator of the savage’s sexual appetite. These views fueled the myth of the Black Jezebel. “Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can’t we just be the sexy American girl next door?” Supermodel Tyra Banks‘ words captured the raging battle that African American women, who are solely defined by their sexual appetites, still face to this day face. Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg, a professor at Northeastern University said, “ White men not only appropriated the children of Black women under slavery, they also appropriated Black women bodies through rape. And, when their offspring bore silent witness to rape, these men profited from the unholy harvest by selling their own children and justified their violent subordination of Black women by labeling them promiscuous seducers.”
Not only were black women blamed for seducing white men into raping them they were blamed for the ills of the black community. Historian Philip A. Bruce in 1889, explicitly tied Black women sexual impurity to our dangerous mothering. He reasoned that Black women promiscuity not only provoked Black men to rape white women but also led the entire Black family into depravity. Professor Howard Odum, at the University of North Carolina attributed Black’s poor home life partly to the sexual and domestic laxity of Black mothers. Decadent Black mothers, are then responsible for the menace to society that the black family poses to the American social order. Something had to be done. North Carolina, in 2003 became the first state to work to rectify its role in the near successful genocide of the Black race. A campaign that took the right to bear children away from an estimated 450,000 black women, according to the United States Government Accounting Office in 1977.
First the United States government tired to rid of the country of the Black menace by targeting black women, when that became illegal the focus was shifted to black children with abortion rates that far outstrip the Black population. Georgia a southern state that fought for the south’s right to keep slaves has become the first state to realize this and they are trying to correct it.
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