Controversial Billboards Say Black Children Are An 'Endangered Species'

[Canuckistanian]

ATLANTA — The message on dozens of billboards across the city is provocative: Black children are an "endangered species."

The eyebrow-raising ads featuring a young black child are an effort by the anti-abortion movement to use race to rally support within the black community. The reaction from black leaders has been mixed, but the "Too Many Aborted" campaign, which so far is unique to only Georgia, is drawing support from other anti-abortion groups across the country.

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Abortion rights advocates are disturbed. Spelman College professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall called the strategy a gimmick.

"To use racist arguments to try to bait black people to get them to be anti-abortion is just disgusting," said Guy-Sheftall, who teaches women's history and feminist thought at the historically black women's college.

"These one-issue approaches that are not about saving the black family or black children, it's just a big distraction," she said. "Many black people don't know who Margaret Sanger is and could care less."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/14/atlanta-anti-abortion-bil_n_461972.html

[sendero]

1. The same people who..

.. are SO concerned about these children would rather cut off their own nose than see one dollar of government money spent to support them.

Fuck these hypocrites.

[theoldman]

2. As long as Blacks have more than two children there is no problem.

Our Black population is increasing, not decreasing. I would bet that a lot more White people have abortions than Black people.

[paulsby]

4. why bet?

who knows the stats on a per capita basis?

i am sure somebody out there knows. anyone? bueller?

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Didn't Bill "the Gambler" Bennett say there was too many Black children?

And that you should abort a bunch more to keep the crime rate down?

Damn these right wing tools can't make up their minds.