Wednesday 23 January 2013

The Disappearing Blacks of America

This week marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the court decision that legalized abortion throughout the United States of America.
This landmark ruling has seemingly been a weapon  directed  at the poor, the working class and ethnic minorities, particularly African Americans.
Regardless of arguments about the exact moment when human life begins, or whether a woman has ‘a right to choose,’ abortion is also a matter of class, race and power.
Most of those who have  power within the hierarchy, the supervisor class of ‘liberal’ professionals, are in  favour of abortions, whereas the vast majority of abortions are performed on women of the powerless, supervised sections of society.
Blacks in America are 13% of the population, yet  undergo around 36% of the abortions.
A black woman is five times more likely to have an abortion than a white woman.
On average 1876 black women undergo abortions every day in the United States.
Since 1973 approximately 16 million abortions have taken place on black women.
If those potential human beings were still alive today there would be 16 million more blacks in America. Instead of 36 million blacks there would be 52 million blacks.
There would be 36% more African Americans.
Throughout the world abortion is a method of population control aimed mainly at the poor and the powerless.
Whether abortion is back street or legal, abortion will always affect the working classes more. The rational choice for many women, in a world of welfare dependency, medicated despondency, loss of skilled jobs and the mass unemployment of potential fathers, is to have a termination.
Whereas families were once the backbone of working class life, increasingly marriage and family is becoming a middle class luxury.
In a world where the people serve the Economy, instead of the Economy serving the people, the masses of the Powerless are becoming surplus to requirements.
In Arabia the girls are disappearing, in the United States it is the African Americans who are being sucked out and thrown in the incinerator.

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