The leftist view of black “failure” reeks of liberal bias.  Firstly, they classify failure as not living similarly to themselves.  Secondly, they blame the individual’s “failure” on a third party.  I think the time has come for tiered secondary schools and school vouchers.  The benefits of both could be the subject of another post, but a lengthy explanation is unnecessary for this audience.  If black parents could see the 12k or so before it goes to the school, they might expect more than crosswords in physics class; they also might expect something like a plumbing certification option, i.e. RETURN ON INVESTMENT.  But that would be transparency in government, which would disadvantage the blind, no?

1.3 million babies getting killed each year in America. Think about that for a second…

I’m willing to look over a few things if someone is trying to stop this genocide.

Alveda King is helping wake up African Americans to genocide and you attack her because she doesn’t like racist usury!

I don’t like rap, but what’s wrong with trying to get her message across to urban youths in a way that they understand.

Nick Cannon has done more for the pro life cause than almost anyone else with his song “Can I live.”

And planned parenthood isn’t just racist because of what a few of their operators say.  It was founded by a nazi eugenecist who spoke to the Ku Klux Klan.

http://www.klannedparenthood.com/

http://www.gopcatholics.blogspot.com

For those familiar with history, they could have just said they were finishing Margaret Sanger’s work.  At the KKKinic

If abortion was made illegal again, the legal battle for the right to an abortion would be fought over again. The end result over time would be that abortion would be made legal again. Someones sister,daughter or mother will be ganged raped made pregnant. The raped woman will challenge the constitutionality of making abortio illegal.

I wonder just how serious the anti-abortionist are. If it is first degree murder, does the woman who has the abortion go to jail for life poassibly facing the death penalty?

I don’t like abortion. But other ways must be found to bring the number of abortions down significantly.

Abortion is either murder or it isn’t. If it is the mother goes to jail for life or is executed

By the way, I really could care less if NYS supreme court judge Sol Wachler’s millioniare wife aborted his and her “child”

Do not fret, Nick, even with increased rate of abortion the black population is growing far faster than the white population.  The term genocide is premature until one considers interracial homicide as well as overall population growth rate by race.  Also, blacks in mutiple countries practive partible paternity as a mating mechanism.  Just because this is different from european tendancies does not mean it should be discriminated against or be considered inferior.  Abortion is simply the result of the partible paternity strategy being practiced in a western country.  Leftist advocacy = discrimination and racism.

The problem with partible paternity is that in western society, i.e. non-tribal, it leaves the mother without adequate resources for child rearing.  Thus, the question for conservatives is whether those individuals not practicing partible paternity should subsidize those who do.

Marcus,

You opened up a can of worms with this one my friend.

Abortion is a non-issue in my humble opinion.

It’s the most divisive issue on the left or the right, and for good reason.

One should try and steer clear of this debate if possible.

Mr. Epstein is on target that interjection of the affirmative action issue was completely unnecessary, and that it panders to narrow-minded leftwing and black prejudices which see opposition to affirmative action as indicative and perhaps even equivalent to white racism (when it actually is anti-racist). However, as some of the comments above note, if this is what it takes to win over blacks and leftwingers to the pro-life cause, perhaps one should over these problems.

Excuse me, Mr. Epstein, but leaving aside the early crucial (and highly successful) role promoting abortion had precisely as a means to address perceived black pathologies, or its continuing political manipulations as Mr. Zmirak’s recent piece on Geraldine Ferraro demonstrated, not to say the charming Nazi contributions on this site of not so yore, the suggestion that wanting to off black kids to ease the injustices of affirmative action “could just as easily” be interpreted “as trying to portray opposition to affirmative action as genocidal or eugenic” doesn’t even reach the level of tendentious.  The Advocate’s purpose was simply to reveal that the racist exploitations animating Planned Parenthood from its inception burn no less brightly today. To argue that it follows wanting to kill blacks because of affirmative action is no different than saying opposition to affirmative action is also genocidal isn’t just a non sequitur; it’s simply absurd.
Obviously there are other motivations for murder besides racism; but to pretend that abortion has not been, nor is, a central component of this country’s Aztec assault on the innocent is not merely delusory, it is intellectually contemptible.

Abortion isn’t racist against blacks, if anything those who push abortion most are in general racist toward whites.  It’s just that the ideas of leftism so dominate debate because of their control of the media and schools that people feel compelled to resort to liberal arguments.  We can’t fight a war unless we paint it in terms of political correctness.  Muslim terrorists lard their press releases with the sort of quasi-Marxism that has been flowing from our universities for decades, etc.

Partible Paternity. Another fancy term.

(conservative) Aristotle chastising (proto-Marxist) Plato:
If everybody’s responsible, nobody’s responsible.

Nick Cannon writes:

“I’m willing to look over a few things if someone is trying to stop this genocide.”

David Duke is also pro-life. Will you also overlook his mistakes and work with him on this issue?

Bernie writes;

David Duke is also pro-life. Will you also overlook his mistakes and work with him on this issue?

Yes I will work with David Duke to end abortion.  I would even work with converted abortionists to end abortion.

An old friend of mine (my predecessor as editor of the Yale Free Press, way back in the 80s) once asked a neo-Nazi he’d met his position on abortion. The neo said, “I’m against it--for white gentile women.”

Many years later, the local abortionist at the Baton Rouge charity hospital came to speak at LSU , for the archly titled “Women’s Studies Tea.” Her talk consisted of a long lament on how abortion rates among blacks and Hispanics had fallen after the cut off of Medicaid-funded abortions. I echoed my friend, and asked her: “Is this a question of harming black and Hispanic women, or protecting black and Hispanic babies?”

She insisted that she didn’t understand the question. I’m sure that the poor woman didn’t. Let us pray for her soul and those of all who have waded hip deep in innocent blood. For all my sins, I do not envy them their moment at the “fearsome judgment seat of Christ.”

I’m pro-life but am afraid that adopting the rhetoric of black nationalism will not convert anyone to our cause.

Sam Francis warned that many pro-lifers would fall in bed with black racists like Alveeta King if they thought it could end abortion.

But the reverse is not true. These same people would not support a return to Jim Crow if it meant an end to abortion. Of course, abortion was illegal in the Jim Crow South.

Ah yes, the nameless ‘neo-Nazi’. But really, what is wrong with this statement

“I’m against it--for white gentile women.”

That is not advocating abortion for others, it is merely doing the same thing as Alvina King, saying that abortion is not good for one’s own group.

John, I don’t care if the last European couple aborts its last child, really ought to do mission work in Haiti or some such.

Great article!

I am strongly pro-life, but I can’t get over how the pro-life movement sounds like the Far Left.

This is just not in their obsessive anti-racism, but also in their appeals to human rights and civil disobedience.

I believe it was Tom Fleming who said there is no “right to life,” there’s a duty not to kill.

Jason,

The claim right of one always means the duty of another.  A claim right says “Party A as a right for party B to provide x; which means B has a duty to A.  Rights therefore are not two-term as Hobbes and Locke supposed, but three-term: A’s right, B’s duty, and the thing claimed (x).

Kendall,

They need something wrong to oppose, and abortion fills that need.

With many there doesn’t seem to be any consideration as to whether something else, e.g. saving one’s people, might be more important.

I have noticed for at least a year or two that the language of many in the “pro-life movement” mirrors that of Left, especially regarding all the “rights talk.”

Look at the Constitution Party:  they may well name the Straussian neocon Alan Keyes (who frequently criticizes abortion using civil-rights rhetoric) their presidential nominee because of his “family values credentials.”

Who says that Fleming is right when he says there is no right to live, only a duty not
to kill?  Does he mean that God has arbitrarily established a duty and the only way
to establish the duty not to kill is to invoke God?  Or is there something about being
an innocent human that entitles a human not to be killed?  If the latter, then there
is a right involved.  If the former, then there is some arbitrary commandment from
God.

To be clear, God gave the right to live.

RE Caper:

I hate to disagree with you, since I enjoy so many of your comments, but I think that Catholic theology would teach us that man’s “right to live” was compromised by the Fall. Otherwise God, or nature, or wild beasts, or accidents, r old age, would violating our “right” when they caused our death. I think the “right” to live was one of the Preternatural Gifts, revoked after Original Sin. Nevertheless, we experience death as an evil, since it violates our original nature, and we understand that killing the innocent violates the Natural Law written in our hearts--reinforced for all by the Covenant with Noah, and for Jews (and later Christians) by the Ten Commandments. Still, there is no intrinsic “right” to live--otherwise, you and I would be violating the rights of every impoverished person on earth when we spent a PENNY on the arts, or culture, or leisure, instead of pouring it into famine relief.

That is the important difference between paleo and neo conservatism. We understand the implications of the Fall.