MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry passionately asks: “What is riskier than living poor in America? Seriously! What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America? I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe it will be a good school and maybe it won’t”….
Do you really want to know what’s riskier? Really? Well, you better be well prepared to confront your own ideological race-based paradigms, because I will tell you straight up.
Being an in-utero child to a black woman. That is the most “risky” place in America. Far riskier than being poor, is being a black baby not yet born.
Political correctness and ideological dictates discourage discussion of the culture of some black communities as explanative of violence, ignorance, high rates of abortion and other dysfunctions. But for those communities, culture is described by the growth of a matriarchy, as displayed by the many grandmothers raising their daughters’ children. By the absence of men in child rearing. By men who prey on young women who have never learned what to expect from decent, caring and responsible men. By the collapse of the family and the destruction of men’s and women’s traditional, balanced roles in making children strong enough to resist the challenges of today’s broader culture of irresponsibility, casual sex, substance abuse and other plagues.
Abortion of black babies happen 1452 times a day in black communities. Abortion has taken over 13 million Black lives within the last 30 years (since 1973). At that rate, based on population, abortion has taken 1/3 of the black population.
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided the tragic statistics. According to the CDC, since 1973, the year of the Supreme Court Decision Roe vs. Wade, 13 million (13,000,000) African American lives have been lost to abortion.
The CDC reports that of the approximately 4,000 abortions that are performed daily in the United States, 1452 of them are performed on African American women and their pre-born children. This means that although African Americans represent only 12% of the population of the United States, they account for 35% of the abortions performed in this country.
Being a baby in the uterus of a black woman in the United States is the most “risky”, or dangerous, place on the planet.
Far more risky than living poor, is living in-utero. That is the answer to Melissa Harris-Perry. But she won’t want to address that self-evident truth, will she?