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Planned Parenthood Accepts Donation to Abort Black Babies
March 27, 2008 at 2:20 am · Filed under Social Issues
A Planned Parenthood staffer excitedly accepted a donation from a caller who wanted his funds earmarked for women aborting black babies. The problem is the caller was an actor and the donation wasn’t real. What is very real was the racist reaction to the donation offer from the PP staffer who took the call.After asking that the donation go to abort black babies in his son’s name, the caller stated, “…we just think, you know, the less black kids out there the better.” To which the PP staffer laughed and said, “Understandable, understandable… Excuse my hesitation, um, um, this is the first time I’ve had a donor call and make this kind of request, so I’m excited, and I wanna make sure I don’t leave anything out.“
Once the the audio and transcripts of the call were made public by The Advocate, a right-to-life student magazine at the University of California-Los Angeles, Planned Parenthood predictably apologized for the bad judgment of its staffer. But there is no indication that the staffer was fired or even disciplined.
Critics have long accused Planned Parenthood of concentrating their efforts in the black community and targeting other minorities.
Read the transcript of the call after the break.
Transcript released by The Advocate
LeBron James Covers Vogue
March 27, 2008 at 2:03 am · Filed under Social Issues
Basketball Super Star Lebron James posed with Supermodel Gisele Bundchen for this month’s cover of Vogue Magazine. Black readers have complained that this image is racist and depicts the athlete as looking a bit like King Kong and Fay Wray. I am personally not offended by this picture and I see no other way they could have posed. He is a very tall and muscular person and I imagine they wanted to keep it classy as not to frighten their “white” readers and decided to throw a popular model in the mix.
I guess as I Muslim I put things in perspective and I never immediately assume everything is a “black and white” issue. I think culturally Black folk are extremely too sensitive. I’m am finding more and more now that an interesting thing is happening in our communities. We are so easy to call someone on seemingly racist behavior, especially White, however, we are closed mouthed when we see our sisters being pimped out in music videos. Why don’t we call these rappers on their depiction of Black women (big booties, big breasted, weaved heads, and babies mamas).
This reader is Not offended and I take issue with Black folk who are. Get a grip!