Post Election Issue: Why I’m Hearing The GOP Is Done …

Post Election Issue

Why I’m Hearing The GOP Is Done …

White House Tape 697/29 — Thursday, March 30th, 1972

“A majority of people in Colorado voted for abortion, I think a majority of people in Michigan are for abortion, I think in both cases, well, certainly in Michigan they will vote for it [ abortion ] because they think that what’s going to be aborted generally are the little Black bastards.” — Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 ¹

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White House Tape 700/10 — Monday, April 3rd, 1972

“…as I told you – we talked about it earlier – that a hell of a lot people want to control the Negro bastards.” — Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 ²

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White House Tape 700/10 — Monday, April 3rd, 1972

“…you know what we are talking about – population control.” — Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 ³

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White House Tape 700/10 — Monday, April 3rd, 1972

“…we’re talking really – and what John Rockefeller really realizes – look, the people in what we call our class control their populations. Sometimes they’ll have a family of six, or seven, or eight, or nine, but it’s exception.” — Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 ⁴

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White House Tape 700/10 — Monday, April 3rd, 1972

“People who don’t control their families are people in – the people that shouldn’t have kids. Now that’s …” — Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 ⁵

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White House Tape 700/10 — Monday, April 3rd, 1972

“What?“ — Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 ⁶

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The Link Between The GOP and The Family–Planners

“Cecile Richards Of Planned Parenthood: Election Shows GOP Should Embrace Family–Planning Roots” (Huff Post Politics)

“Back in the olden days, the Republican Party was the party that supported people’s individual rights and keeping government out of personal health care decisions, so I think there’s a history they can go back to.”  ⁷ — President Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood

“A lot of Republicans used to support family planning, and Richard Nixon signed that first federal planning program into law. There’s a clear pathway to [ win back women's support ], and it’s to listen to the middle of their party instead of the extreme fringe.”  ⁸ — President Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood

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Family–Planning Roots

“Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.” ⁹ — Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood founder and member in good standing with the racist American Eugenics Society (AES).

“The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.” ¹⁰ — Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood founder and member in good standing with the racist American Eugenics Society (AES).

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“I consider that the world and almost our civilization for the next twenty-five years, is going to depend upon a simple, cheap, safe contraceptive to be used in poverty stricken slums, jungles, and among the most ignorant people. Even this will not be sufficient, because I believe that now, immediately, there should be national sterilization for certain dysgenic types of our population who are being encouraged to breed and would die out were the government not feeding them.” ¹¹ — Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood founder and member in good standing with the racist American Eugenics Society (AES).

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Clearly Republican President Richard Milhous Nixon, racist as the day is long during a summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, was greatly influenced by John D. Rockefeller III as documented in the White House taped conversation above. John D. Rockefeller III was both the founder and major supporter of the Population Council.¹² Rooted in the eugenics movement, John D. Rockefeller III appointed Frederick Osborn, a celebrated eugenicist, author of “Preface to Eugenics” (New York, 1940) and one of the founding members of the American Eugenics Society (AES) as the first president of the Population Council.¹³ Osborn served as President of the Population Council until 1959.¹⁴ However, in 1968 Osborn wrote, “Eugenic goals are most likely to be achieved under another name than eugenics.” ¹⁵ Moreover in 1972, right after Roe v. Wade was reargued on October 11th, the American Eugenics Society was reorganized and renamed to “The Society for the Study of Social Biology” and now known as “The Society for Biodemography and Social Biology.” ¹⁶

According to Osborn …

“The name was changed because it became evident that changes of a eugenic nature would be made for reasons other than eugenics, and that tying a eugenic label on them would more often hinder than help their adoption. Birth control and abortion are turning out to be great eugenic advances of our time.” ¹⁷

 

Republican Party Roots

“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.” ¹⁸ — Frederick Douglass

The “Family–Planning Roots” of the Republican Party, purported by Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, is a deliberate disconnect and departure from the real and well-documented roots of the Republican Party. In May of 1854 and in response to the Pro-Slavery Democratic Party, Anti-Slavery members of Congress formed the Republican Party.¹⁹ The original Republican Party Platform in 1856 had nine (9) planks, six (6) of which were dedicated to Ending Slavery and Securing Equal Rights for Black Americans. The Democratic Party Platform of 1856 supported and defended slavery.²⁰ The 1860 Democratic Party Platform not only endorsed the Fugitive Slave Law but also celebrated and promoted the Dred Scott decision.” ²¹

THE BLACK VOTE, THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE LAST STRAW!

From 1870 to 1876 all of us were Republicans. However, since the 1876 Presidential election and “The Compromise of 1877” the Republican Party has cared more about power than people. [See Notes] The last straw came on Wednesday, October 26th, 1960 when Democratic Massachusetts Senator and Presidential candidate John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy telephoned Coretta Scott King from Chicago and expressed his concern about the jail sentence handed down to her husband Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Kennedy’s brother and campaign manager Robert Francis Kennedy called Judge J. Oscar Mitchell from New York the following day, reportedly to inquire into King’s right to bail. Amazingly and later that same day, King was released on a $2,000 appeal bond after nine (9) days imprisonment. In this interview, King concedes that Kennedy “served as a great force in making my release possible.” While King maintained a nonpartisan stance in the presidential race, his father (i.e., Martin Luther King, Sr., “Daddy King”) publicly announced he was switching his support from the Republican Party’s Presidential Candidate of the United States Richard Milhous Nixon to John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy in light of the Democratic candidate’s call to his daughter-in-law Coretta Scott King. When Daddy King switched his vote to the Democratic Party, this marked the end of a ninety (90) year relationship (from 1870 to 1960) between the Republican Party and the Black vote. [See Notes]

There Is No Way To Escape The Implications!

“There is no way to escape the implications. When an organization has a history of racism, when its literature is openly racist, when its goals are self-consciously racial, and when its programs invariably revolve around race, it doesn’t take an expert to realize that the organization is indeed racist.” ²² — William L. Davis, a Black Financial Analyst

While today’s Republican Party has long and incontestably departed from its sonorous and well-documented abolitionist roots, it is equally apparent that the Democratic Party has NOT departed from its wicked and well-documented racist roots. There is no way to escape the implications that President Barack Hussein Obama II and the Democratic Party are co-conspirators in the genocide of Black America. Both wholeheartedly endorse, support and promote an organization whose mission is one of population control.²³ An organization that was founded by Margaret Sanger,²⁴ a well-documented proponent of eugenics,²⁵ a celebrated Klu Klux Klan speaker²⁶ and one of the architects of the now infamous 1939 Negro Project,²⁷ whose sole objective was to infiltrate the Black community by hiring Black preachers²⁸ and presenting birth control as a health option for åBlack women.²⁹ An organization, that according to a Life Dynamics report called, “Racial Targeting and Population Control,” which cross-examined zip codes of minority neighborhoods and abortion facilities across America, is the leader in an industry that has installed 83% of their abortion or abortion-referring facilities in minority neighborhoods.³⁰ An organization that according the very latest research released by Protecting Black Life (an outreach of the Life Issues Institute) has 79% of its surgical abortion facilities located within walking distance of Black American and/or Hispanic/Latino communities.³¹ An organization that today is the largest abortion provider in the United States of America,³² performing about one-third of all abortions in the country,³³ performing more than 329,000 abortions a year, 27,416 abortions a month, 6,326 abortions a week and over 900 abortions a day.³⁴ An organization that earned an estimated $154 million dollars from those 329,000 abortions³⁵ where 40% of abortions were performed on minority women.³⁶ An organization that is financially backed by the United States government, receiving 46% of its annual budget³⁷ in the form of more than $487 million taxpayer dollars a year.³⁸ An organization whose President took a break from her “day job” running the organization’s abortion business to campaign full-time to re-elect President Barack Obama³⁹ and gave more than $15 million dollars to the President’s re-election campaign.⁴⁰ An organization whose criminal negligence and depraved indifference botched Chicago’s Tanya Reaves second trimester abortion and let the sister bleed for over five (5) hours before calling emergency services.⁴¹ An organization where there have been fourteen (14) cases of serious medical emergencies documented at their abortion facilities within the last 24 months.⁴² An organization that when investigators called the same abortion facilities that had recent and documented medical emergencies, denied any incidents occurred at their abortion facilities and lied about the risks of the abortion procedure.⁴³ An organization that’s been caught advising sex-traffickers on how to secure abortions for underage girls with no questions asked.⁴⁴ An organization where donors can give money specifically for the abortion of a Black baby.⁴⁵ An organization whose President publicly claimed her organization provides mammograms, the breast cancer screening procedure for women, but whose staff in twenty-seven (27) different states publicly stated: “We don’t provide those services whatsoever.” ⁴⁶ An organization that is currently embroiled in a lawsuit that alleges its involvement in “repeated false, fraudulent, and ineligible claims for Medicaid reimbursements” through the Texas Women’s Health Program.⁴⁷ What is the name of this organization that uses almost half a billion taxpayer dollars to target Black neighborhoods, perform and botch late-term abortions, advise sex traffickers and pimps⁴⁸ on how to secure taxpayer funded abortions for underage girls and falsely claim to provide life saving breast cancer screening? Why, it’s Planned Parenthood and there is no way to escape the implications that Planned Parenthood is racist and that after the 2012 election, the GOP is done.

Brothers, we really need to talk.

Note(s):

· Reconstruction was ended by the Compromise of 1877, a morally flawed but historically consequential arrangement that put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House and removed federal troops from the South. [Click Here] This compromise consisted of an agreement to drop the Negro problem from the agenda of national policy questions. Hayes called it the ‘let alone‘ policy. It was similar to what others before him had called ‘popular sovereignty‘ and to what others after him have called ‘benign neglect.’ In each case it meant the same thing: no issue of justice was at stake and, therefore, national policy was not required to address the issue. Whatever the Negro problem was, it was not a public problem.” ↩

· King was in the Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, Georgia because a group of students representing “The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights,” led by Mr. Lonnie C. King, a student at Morehouse College, had called for his help. Dr. King delayed his trip to Nigeria and joined the student sit-in movement of Atlanta, Georgia. [Click Here] What happened to Dr. King that did not happen to the students that were arrested in the same demonstration? Dr. King was transferred to the “Dekalb County Jail” and charged with parole violation. On Wednesday, May 4th, 1960 King was arrested and issued a citation for driving without a license. He paid the fine and went on with his life. Judge J. Oscar Mitchell claimed Dr. King was also given twelve months probation. This was not known to Dr. King or his representative who paid the fine for the minor traffic violation. Judge Oscar Mitchell of Dekalb County proceeded to sentence Dr. King to four month’s hard labor in the Georgia State Prison for a minor traffic violation. This was the first time such a sentence had been imposed in the history of the state of Georgia! Around four o’clock a.m. the next morning, officers of the law put chains (shackles) on Dr. King, threw him in the prison vehicle, drove 230 miles across the state and incarcerated him in Reidsville State Prison. This was brutality, injustice and evil in high places. However, within less than twenty-four hours the nation and the world responded. Because a young senator from Massachusetts intervened on the side of justice. Senator John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy took a risk for righteousness in support of Dr. King. Judge Mitchell reversed his ruling. This single act of moral and political courage tipped the scales in the presidential election of 1960. ↩

Reference(s):

01. Maafa21 — Black Genocide in the 21st Century America, Life Dynamics, Inc. (http://bit.ly/1ak4q1).
02. Ibid.
03. Ibid.
04. Ibid.
05. Ibid.
06. Ibid.
07. Huff Post Politics, “Cecile Richards Of Planned Parenthood: Election Shows GOP Should Embrace Family-Planning Roots”, (http://bit.ly/U1iKL2).
08. Ibid., President Nixon convened the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, chaired by John Rockefeller. This is the Commission that institutionalized abortion by subcontracting Planned Parenthood in the (then) DHEW (now DHHS). And after 8 years of a Republican presidency under Bush, abortion is still legal. See Dr. Tolbert’s excellent work here: http://bit.ly/pqOqbB.
09. Margaret Sanger, “The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda”, Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5. (http://bit.ly/KR67B8).
10. Margaret Sanger, Ibid.
11. Correspondence between Sanger and McCormick, Friday, October 27th, 1950 (http://to.pbs.org/cbCcF7).
12. John Davison Rockefeller III, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/d3Cm47).
13. Population Council, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/XrCWU).
14. Ibid.
15. Population Council, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/XrCWU).
16. American Eugenics Society, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/hkJYVL).
17. Ibid.
18. Frederick Douglass, “Frederick Douglass: A Model For The Ages” (http://bit.ly/WEGPMq).
19. David Barton, WallBuilders – Newsletters  Black History Issue 2003 (http://bit.ly/3XdRfY).
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. George Grant, “Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood”, p. 119. (http://bit.ly/R4iQEL)
23. Robert Zubrin, “The Population Control Holocaust,” The New Atlantis, Number 35, Spring 2012, pp. 33-54. (http://bit.ly/IlMQr5).
24. Planned Parenthood, “History & Successes”, (http://bit.ly/Qb19lE).
25. Margaret Sanger, “Birth Control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical in ideal, with the final aims of Eugenics.” (http://bit.ly/KR67B8l) and “She [Margaret Sanger] read everything she could find on birth control and sexuality and immersed herself in the writings of Thomas Malthus [Eugenist], John Stuart [Eugenist] and Robert Owens [Eugenist] (Sanger, 1938, pp. 124-125). And she met Havelock Ellis [Eugenist], who became her mentor and her lover (Chesler, 1992, p. 120).” (http://bit.ly/KEnGkB) by Jon Knowles with special thanks to Ellen Chesler, Planned Parenthood.
26. Margaret Sanger (1938), “Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography,” New York: W. W. Norton. pp. 361, 366-7. (http://bit.ly/10eyb77).
27. Tanya L. Green, “The Negro Project: Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Plan for Black Americans” (http://bit.ly/x9c2aV).
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Mark Crutcher, “Racial Targeting and Population Control”, Life Dynamics (http://bit.ly/nzULjk).
31. Susan W. Enouen, P.E., “New Research shows Planned Parenthood Targets Minority Neighborhoods,” Life Issues Connector, October 2012 (http://bit.ly/QXPgwf).
32. Planned Parenthood, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/4AgtGW) and Loxafamosity Ministries (LMI) “U.S. Abortion Statistics” (http://bit.ly/YicLF).
33. Joan Frawley Desmond, “As Gender Gap Narrows in Election, Planned Parenthood to the Rescue?”, (http://bit.ly/SeOwGd).
34. Ibid.
35. Protest Planned Parenthood, “The Facts Don’t Lie” Source: Planned Parenthood Annual Reports. (http://bit.ly/STwO7E).
36. Dave Bohon, “After 96 Years, Abortion Giant Planned Parenthood Still Targeting Minorities,” New American (http://bit.ly/R4PMbN) and Susan W. Enouen, P.E., “Why Are Black Women Three Times More Likely to Have an Abortion?”, (http://bit.ly/VrRGcJ).
37. Steven Ertelt, “Planned Parenthood Report: $1B Group Gets 46% From Tax Money”, (http://bit.ly/syznxN).
38. Penny Starr, “Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report: Got $487.4M in Tax Money, Did 329,445 Abortions” (http://bit.ly/x5adxC).
39. FOX News, “Planned Parenthood President: ‘I’ve Taken A Break From My Day Job’ To Volunteer Full Time For Obama” (http://bit.ly/RLR6zZ).
40. Steven Ertelt, “Planned Parenthood Spent $15 Million to Re-Elect Obama”, (http://bit.ly/T3b1vK).
41. Chicago CBS News, “Documents Shed Light On Woman’s Death After Abortion,” (http://cbsloc.al/NTi9HG).
42. “Investigation reveals Planned Parenthood lying about abortion injuries“, Live Action Advocate, Published Wednesday, October 24th, 2012 (http://bit.ly/TASZFa).
43. Ibid.
44. Live Action, “Exposing Planned parenthood’s Cover-up of Child Sex Trafficking” (http://bit.ly/QHIFbR).
45. Live Action, “The Planned Parenthood Racism Project” (http://bit.ly/QpfkVv).
46. The Suzy B Blog, “Planned Parenthood & Mammograms: “We don’t provide those services whatsoever” (http://bit.ly/SbcaD8).
47. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), “False Claims and Fraud: Lawsuit Exposes Planned Parenthood Deception” (http://bit.ly/OXlbte).
48. Josh Brown, “‘Pimp’ video stings Planned Parenthood,” The Washington Times (http://bit.ly/Y3MqvY).

Election 2012 Issue: My Letter To Christian Voters

Election Issue

A Letter Of Note …

“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong!” — President Abraham Lincoln

“Three years into the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln wrote the following letter in order to summarise on paper some points [ including his failures ] he had previously made regarding the recruitment of slaves as Union soldiers and, ultimately, their freeing from the institution of slavery itself. Come the end of the war, all slaves in the U.S. had been freed and, after the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment in December of 1865, slavery was abolished.” ¹

 

“If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.” ² — Yours truly, President Abraham Lincoln, signed Monday, April 4th, 1864.

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A Letter To My Fellow Christians

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”  ³ — President John Quincy Adams

In this letter President Abraham Lincoln summarizes a conversation he had with three (3) Kentuckians: Governor Thomas E. Bramlette, Albert G. Hodges and Archibald Dixon. Hodges was the editor of the Frankfort Commonwealth and Dixon served in the U.S. Senate from 1852 to 1855. Governor Bramlette had protested the recruiting of Black regiments in Kentucky. ⁴

Lincoln’s letter gives us an extraordinary glimpse into his heart and mind as he faced the challenges of his constitutional responsibility as President of the United States of America and why he changed his inaugural position of non-interference with slavery to one of immediate emancipation. Please note that President Lincoln closed his letter to Hodges with a reference to slavery that reflects back on his inaugural address of 1865. In the end President Lincoln writes: “If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.” ⁵

In my opinion, President Lincoln had come to the point in his development as a child of God that many Christians must likewise reach today, before we cast our vote for the next President of our country tomorrow.

If Abortion Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong!

Election Day Tomorrow Is The Most Important Election since 1860.

Without question, the biological product of a human male and a human female is a human life, with a human nature. Without argument, abortion on demand sheds the blood and takes the life of an innocent human being. As members of the Body of Christ, let us therefore be transparent with each other and confess, without debate, that legalized abortion on demand is incontestably evil.

Brothers and Sisters In Christ …

Tomorrow we vote.

With this in mind and in the same spirit of President Abraham Lincoln’s letter to Albert G. Hodges dated Monday, April 4th, 1864, here is my letter to you on the eve of our 2012 Presidential election.

My message is simple.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support an industry that has killed more babies in the last forty-four (44) years than the population of our seventy-two (72) largest U.S. cities ⁶ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support abortion which hurts women, and kills more than 3,000 babies each day ⁷ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support late-term abortions, even during the 9th month ⁸ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support abortion on demand based on the size, level of development, environment and degree of dependency of the baby ⁹ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support abortion on demand based on the sins of the father ¹⁰ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support legislation that forces us to pay for abortion with our tax dollars, including secret abortions on thirteen (13) year old girls without their parents consent ¹¹ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support legislation that requires states to provide free sterilizations to fifteen (15) year-old girls even if their parents do not consent to the procedure ¹² is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support legislation that requires insurers to provide free (cancer-causing) birth control pills and Depo Provera birth control ¹³ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support an industry that targets communities of color by installing 79% of its surgical abortion facilities within walking distance of Black American and/or Hispanic|Latino neighborhoods ¹⁴ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support an industry that kills more Black babies in less than four (4) days than Black lives lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in eighty-six (86) years ¹⁵ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support an industry that kills over 1,400 Black babies for every 1,000 Black babies born alive in New York City ¹⁶ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support an industry whose business results in Black American women having triple the risk of early preterm birth (EPB), defined as delivery at less than 32.0 weeks gestation, and quadruple the risk of extremely preterm birth (XPB), defined as delivery at less than 28.0 weeks gestation, compared with non-Black American women (1.39% in Blacks vs. 0.35% in Whites) ¹⁷ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that endorse and promote unlimited abortions and undermine biblically defined marriage ¹⁸ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that attack the Church and her freedom ¹⁹ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that serve the interests of a party that struggles with including the word “God” and “Jerusalem” in its platform ²⁰ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support an industry that has killed more babies in the last forty-four (44) years than all the American battle deaths in all U.S. wars since 1776 ²¹ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support an industry that has killed more babies in the last forty-four (44) years than all Americans of all ages and races murdered daily by handguns ²² is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that would rather shut down the entire U.S. government than stop funding abortion on demand with tax-payer dollars ²³ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that would vote against stopping the killing of children in the wombs of their mothers based on race and gender ²⁴ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support an industry whose business contributes to the Black American fertility rate dropping to 1.9 (well below the population replacement rate of 2.1) in 2003 ²⁵ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support an industry that boasts a 1.3% a year reduction rate in abortions, a rate that would take fifty-three (53) years to reduce the number of babies killed in the wombs of their mothers by fifty percent (50%) ²⁶ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If a Christian voting for political candidates that support an industry whose business is biologically linked to increased breast cancer risk ²⁷ is not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

If nothing is wrong, “if in this life only we have hope in Christ,” then perhaps the Apostle Paul was right when he said: “we are of all men most miserable” ²⁸ having served Christ in vain.

In Closing

“In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation’s condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. ²⁹ — President Abraham Lincoln, Monday, April 4th, 1864.


How we as Christians vote tomorrow will either signal a renewal of our hearts and minds toward Christ or reflect the depth of the depravity in our souls. Voting is a blood bought and thereby precious privilege we inherited from those who died for our freedom before us. John Jay, a leading opponent of slavery, was an American Statesman, Patriot, Diplomat, a Founding Father of our country, and when nominated by George Washington became the first (1st) Chief Justice of the United States of America. ³⁰ Chief Justice Jay believed that the most effective way of ensuring world peace was through propagation of the Christian gospel. Perhaps Jay, in a letter addressed to Pennsylvania House of Representatives member John Murray, dated Saturday, October 12th, 1816, said it best:

“Real Christians will abstain from violating the rights of others, and therefore will not provoke war. Almost all nations have peace or war at the will and pleasure of rulers whom they do not elect, and who are not always wise or virtuous. Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest, of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” ³¹

 

Amen.

This election, let us vote our values vertically.

Brothers, we really need to talk.

Reference(s):

01. Abraham Lincoln, This letter is a summary of a conversation which President Abraham Lincoln had with three Kentuckians: Governor Thomas E. Bramlette, Albert G Hodges and Archibald Dixon. Hodges was the editor of the Frankfort Commonwealth and Dixon served in the U.S. Senate from 1852 to 1855. Bramlette had protested the recruiting of black regiments in Kentucky (http://bit.ly/3SFonW).
02. Ibid., A quote from the last paragraph of Lincoln’s Monday, April 4th, 1864 letter to Albert G Hodges.
03. John Quincy Adams, As quoted in Pocket Patriot : Quotes From American Heroes (2005) edited by Kelly Nickell (http://bit.ly/WokCD2).
04. Abraham Lincoln Online, “Letter to Albert G. Hodges” (http://bit.ly/3KKhyi).
05. Abraham Lincoln, op. cit. (http://bit.ly/3SFonW).
06. Dennis M. Howard, “The Abortion Index” The Movement for a Better America, Inc. (http://bit.ly/9FPAN1).
07. Eduardo Verastegui, 60 Second TV Spot (http://bit.ly/SEbVjI).
08. Ibid.
09. Scott Klusendorf, “How to Defend Your Pro-Life Views in 5 Minutes or Less” (http://bit.ly/aZ6Dkn).
10. Karen Dudek, “Piercing the darkness on the Piers Morgan Show” (http://bit.ly/SrHmPt).
11. Eduardo Verastegui, op. cit. (http://bit.ly/SEbVjI).
12. Sabrina Gladstone, “Obamacare Mandate: Sterilize 15-Year-Old Girls for Free–Without Parental Consent” (http://bit.ly/MnAY9p).
13. Karen Malec, “We Are Woman Rally, ObamaCare Mandate Represent War on Women’s Health” (http://bit.ly/VsPPn4).
14. Protecting Black Life, “Planned Parenthood Targets Minority Neighborhoods” (http://bit.ly/RBoWLk).
15. Lynching in the United States, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/3hpsk5).
16. NYC41Percent.com is a project of the Chiaroscuro Foundation (http://bit.ly/eyWdsf).
17. Brent Rooney, M.Sc., “Does Induced Abortion Account for Racial Disparity in Preterm Births, and Violate the Nuremberg Code?” (http://bit.ly/aLzL4h).
18. Eduardo Verastegui’s, Urgent Message For Latinos (http://bit.ly/UppeBP).
19. Ibid.
20. ABC News, “Dems Quickly Switch to Include “God,” “Jerusalem” (http://abcn.ws/TjKltz).
21. Dennis M. Howard, op. cit. (http://bit.ly/9FPAN1).
22. Ibid.
23. CNN Wire Staff, “Shutdown Looms,” Cable News Network (CNN), April 8th, 2011 at 10:54 A.M. (EDT) (http://bit.ly/HBlr4p).
24. HR 3541, “Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) of 2012″ (http://bit.ly/SHC0OH).
25. U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2011, “Table 83. Total Fertility Rate by Race and Hispanic Origin: 1980 to 2007″ (http://bit.ly/Xddvwr).
26. Guttmacher Institute, “Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States”, August 2011 (http://bit.ly/99dVdw).
27. Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, “The Abortion Breast Cancer (ABC)Summary” (http://bit.ly/Vt1KBl).
28. 1 Corinthians 15:19, (http://bit.ly/VNgpmD).
29. Abraham Lincoln, op. cit. (http://bit.ly/3SFonW).
30. John Jay, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/3FWlux).
31. Ibid.

Environmental Products (8)

Environmental Products (8)

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment ^·

Poor, Rural Black American Men In The South Thought They Were Receiving “Free Health Care” From The United States Government

“The United States government did something that was wrong–deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens … clearly racist!” — President William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton’s apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16th, 1997 ¹

For forty (40) years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. ²

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By 1910 my grandparents, in the South are two (2) and four (4) years old.

Executive Summary

“Arguably The Most Infamous Bio-Medical Research Study In U.S. History” ³

“The men’s status did not warrant ethical debate. They were subjects, not patients; clinical material, not sick people.” — Dr. John R. Heller, M.D., Director of the Public Health Service’s Division of Venereal Diseases ⁴


Between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama the United States Public Health Service (PHS), which by the fall of 1979 would become the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ^5,6 wholly dedicated to “improving the health, safety, and well-being of America,” ⁷ studied the natural progression of untreated syphilis in Black American men who thought they were receiving free health care from their government to the bitter end. ⁸ United States Public Health Service investigators recruited a total of six hundred (600) impoverished, Black American sharecroppers from Macon County, Alabama. ⁹ Three hundred and ninety-nine (399) had previously contracted syphilis before the study began. Two hundred and one (201) never had the disease. ¹⁰ As reasonable compensation for participating in the study, the Black American men were offered a free health care plan that included free meals and free burial insurance from the then trusted United States government. ¹¹ The test subjects were never told they had syphilis and they were never treated for it. ¹² According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the men were told they were being treated for “bad blood,” a local term used to describe several illnesses, including syphilis, anemia and fatigue. ¹³ While the Tuskegee study failed all ethical standards (including the 1947 Nuremberg Code¹⁴) protecting the legal rights of research subjects and prohibiting human experimentation, it was especially villainous, vile and vicious because the study’s researchers knowingly failed to treat patients after penicillin was validated as an effective cure for syphilis in the 1940s. ¹⁵ IN SUMMARY: Twenty-eight (28) men died of syphilis, one-hundred (100) men died from related complications, at least forty (40) wives were infected and nineteen (19) children contracted congenital syphilis at birth. ¹⁶

By 1932 my parents, born in the South, are two (2) and three (3) years old.

Part One: The Background

Working “For The Glory Of Science”

“The Longest Non-Therapeutic Experiment On Humans In Medical History” ¹⁷

“The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. No new drugs were tested; neither was any effort made to establish the efficacy of old forms of treatment. It was a non–therapeutic experiment, aimed at compiling data on the effects of the spontaneous evolution of syphilis on Black males.” — James Howard Jones, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment ¹⁸


The Oslo study of Untreated Syphilis, began in 1909 and was published in 1928. ¹⁹ This epidemiological investigation of the natural course of the syphilitic infection based upon a re-study of the “Boeck-Bruusgaard Material” reported on the natural history of untreated syphilis in White males. ²⁰ By 1932 the overtly racist assumptions then prevalent in American medicine, inclined physicians to believe that syphilis would react differently in Black American men. ²¹ Dr. Taliaferro Clark, who is credited with the Tuskegee study’s origin, initially wanted to study untreated syphilis in a group of Black American men for six (6) to eight (8) months and then follow up with a treatment phase. ²² However, Dr. Clark didn’t like how expensive the treatment phase of the study was, calling the “spinal taps” given to the patients “treatment” and agreed with the deceptive methods recommended by his deputy, Dr. Raymond H. Vonderlehr, such as not disclosing the seriousness of untreated syphilis and misrepresenting daily doses of aspirin and iron supplements as useful medication to the volunteers of the study. ^23,24 To better understand Dr. Clark’s attitude toward the Black American’s in the study, when referring to the volunteers he said: “These Negroes are very ignorant and easily influenced by things that would be of minor significance in a more intelligent group.” ²⁵ Dr. Clark retired after the first year and was replaced by Dr. Vonderlehr who went on to gain the consent of the volunteers to endure “spinal taps” by calling them “special free treatment.” ^26,27 Dr. Vonderlehr retired in 1943 and was replaced by Dr. John R. Heller as Director of the United States Public Health Service’s Division of Venereal Diseases. ²⁸ In 1972 when the public learned the truth about the study, Dr. Heller refused to acknowledge the inherent inhumanity of the study, its similarities to Nazi human experimentation and defended the study’s unethical practices saying: “There was nothing in the experiment that was unethical or unscientific.” ²⁹ “For the most part, doctors and civil servants simply did their jobs. Some merely followed orders, others worked for the glory of science.” ³⁰

By the end of 1956 I am four (4) months old in Detroit, Michigan.

Part Two: On The Hill

A Congressional Hearing Was In Order

The Democratic Party Called for A Congressional Hearing To Investigate

“I didn’t want to believe it. This was the Public Health Service. We didn’t do things like that.” — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. ³¹


In December of 1965 Peter Buxtun, a social worker and epidemiologist in San Francisco, was hired by the Public Health Service to interview patients with sexually transmitted diseases. ³² In the course of his work, Buxtun learned of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. In November 1966 he filed an official protest and the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) responded by asserting that the study must continue until all of the patients had died, allowing the researchers the opportunity to autopsy all the patients. ³³ This conclusion was also backed by the National Medical Association and the American Medical Association. ³⁴ In 1968 Buxtun, filed another protest and again, his concerns were ruled irrelevant. ³⁵ By 1972 Peter Buxtun leaked information on the Tuskegee Experiment to Associated Press reporter Jean Heller (no relation to Dr. John R. Heller). Jean Heller’s story, in the Washington Evening Star exposing the ruthlessly racist Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was published on Tuesday, July 25th, 1972. ³⁶ The next day, the story became front-page news in the New York Times. ³⁷ Senator Edward Kennedy from Massachusetts, a member of the Democratic Party, called for a Congressional hearing where Peter Buxtun testified. ³⁸ Shortly thereafter (Thursday, November 16th, 1972) the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was terminated. ³⁹ Thank God! Understandably, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment created a deep and abiding distrust of governmental health care programs among Black Americans that is still in effect today.

By 1972 I am a sixteen (16) year old, high schooler in California.

In 1972 Democrat Carl Bert Albert was Speaker of the House.

Part Three: In The White House

A Presidential Apology Was In Order

The Democratic Party Reached Out To Restore The Trust Of Black American’s

“What was done cannot be undone. But we can end the silence. We can stop turning our heads away. We can look at you in the eye and finally say on behalf of the American people, what the United States government did was shameful, and I am sorry … To our African American citizens, I am sorry that your federal government orchestrated a study so clearly racist.” — President William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton’s apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16th, 1997 ⁴⁰


The United States Public Health Service’s Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was reminiscent of Nazi experiments in Nuremberg. For twenty-five (25) years Black Americans lived with the explanation that the United States Public Health Service’s researchers “merely followed orders” or sacrificially “worked for the glory of science.” I do not have the words to express how much it meant to Black Americans to hear President Clinton, on Friday, May 16th, 1997 apologize to the surviving Tuskegee patients on behalf of the nation.

By 1997 I am a licensed and ordained Baptist preacher in the Bay Area.

“To the survivors, to the wives and family members, the children and the grandchildren, I say what you know: No power on Earth can give you back the lives lost, the pain suffered, the years of internal torment and anguish. What was done cannot be undone. But we can end the silence. We can stop turning our heads away. We can look at you in the eye and finally say, on behalf of the American people: what the United States government did was shameful. And I am sorry. The American people are sorry — for the loss, for the years of hurt. You did nothing wrong, but you were grievously wronged. I apologize and I am sorry that this apology has been so long in coming.” ⁴¹

 

Today I work full time in the Pro-Life movement to reach Black America.

 

In 1973, just sixty-seven (67) days after Merlin K. DuVal, Assistant Secretary to the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), wrote to Dorothy P. Rice, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to terminate the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment in 1972, the United States Supreme Court decided both Roe and Doe, establishing a constitutional right to abortion on demand. ⁴²

In 1972 Richard Milhous Nixon was President of the United States of America.

Conclusion

A New Order Is In Order

“Sincere,” “Sound” and “Good-Faith” Investments Are Needed

“I think he [Mitt Romney] has serious ideas. I just think those ideas would scare a lot of the American public. And I think that when the public hears them and hears that he is serious, then we get down to we’re not talking about Obamacare, we’re talking about your health care, we’re talking about your Social Security, we’re talking about your Medicare. When it starts coming into my house — that’s why I said when I spoke at the Martin Luther King Memorial, it’s not about Obama, it’s about your momma.” — Al Sharpton, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Live Thursday, December 29th, 2011 ⁴³


I am often asked to explain “how can” and “why do” Black American’s embrace Obamacare. Frankly … While Black Americans have already experienced the manifold blessings of “free health care” under both White Democratic and White Republican administrations, the Democratic Party has publicly acknowledged America’s racist tendencies and boldly invested in Black America by way of Black Americans. This is not to say that the Democratic Party’s investments in my community have been “sincere,” “sound” or even “good-faith” investments. Not at all. However, this is to deliberately say, that “sincere,” “sound” and “good-faith” investments are exactly how New Order Investments by the Republican Party can and will effectively reach voters in communities of color. So what does this look like? “Sincere,” “sound” and “good-faith” investments have always had the power to make amends. “Sincere” investments will acknowledge and accept responsibility for the harm caused by past failures to love communities of color and model genuinely new behavior by spending the time, talent and treasure required to renew and reconcile the relationship. “Sound” investments will overcome the damage to communities of color caused by “politically expedient” spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid by getting resources out of Washington, D.C. and back into the private sector where they can be used productively to create businesses and jobs. “Good-faith” investments will make room at the decision table for members from communities of color and meet the physical needs of women, children and broken families without violating their religious convictions.

Epilogue

“What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.” — Frederick Douglass , “What The Black Man Wants” at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Boston, April, 1865, Please note that Douglass’ speech was given within days of the close of the Civil War and the assassination of President Lincoln. ⁴⁴


It’s interesting to note that January 2004 marked the death of Ernest Hendon, the last survivor of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Hendon was in the control group that did not have syphilis. He was 96 years old. It’s also interesting to note that January 2012 marked the 40th year since the termination of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. Furthermore, it’s very interesting to note that January 2013 will mark the beginning of the 40th year of legalized abortion on demand that deliberately targets communities of color. As I earnestly reflect on these dates, I can’t help but wonder … Could all this just be interesting? Or am I seeing a pattern? To be more specific and more to the point … Could all this just be coincidence? Or am I actually seeing the reality of an old, evil and eugenic effort to eliminate communities of color still at work in America? In the privacy of my heart, I know the answer. Don’t you? In the privacy of our hearts, don’t we all know the answer?

Brothers, we really need to talk.

Note(s):

· Frequently Asked Questions Examining Tuskegee: Question: Why is it called the Tuskegee Study? Answer: ”The formal title of the Study in its first medical publications was ‘Untreated Syphilis in the Male Negro.’ Beginning in 1954, the publications after that called it ‘the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis‘ or ‘the Tuskegee Study.’ It is not uncommon to name medical studies after the geographic location where they are done. When the newspaper story on the Study broke in 1972, the AP reporter Jean Heller called it ‘the Tuskegee Study‘ and the term ‘the Tuskegee Experiment‘ is often used as well.” Source: http://bit.ly/Mq79nx.

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Reference(s):

01. Presidential Apology, U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee (http://1.usa.gov/ckDD3i).
02. Tuskegee Experiment Test Subjects, “Biomedical Ephemera, Or: A Frog for Your Boils.” A photograph from this blog for all biological and medical ephemera, from the age of Abraham through the era of medical quackery and cure-all nostrums. (http://bit.ly/LolBMC).
03. Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/17wadX).
04. Tuskegee University, “Impact on Health Care,” Quote from the Director of Venereal Diseases at the Public Health Service from 1943 to 1948 (http://bit.ly/Kr3e5a).
05. Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/17wadX).
06. United States Public Health Service, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/Md8wGN).
07. United States Department of Health and Human Services, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/4XuFpf).
08. Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/17wadX).
09. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Nuremberg Code, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/gJAsaS).
15. Penicillin, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/f57k5S).
16. Back to Tuskegee, by Jeanne Winstead, Slide No. 16. (http://slidesha.re/bXnCMq).
17. James Howard Jones, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (http://bit.ly/KqQawS).
18. Ibid. (http://bit.ly/LcD4mt).
19. The Oslo Study of Untreated Syphilis Review and Commentary, British Journal of Venereal Diseases, June 1956; 32(2): 70–78 (http://1.usa.gov/O2jUpE).
20. Ibid.
21. The Oslo Study, “Faces of Tuskegee” by the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University (http://bit.ly/MPqb2r).
22. Ibid., Dr. Taliaferro Clark (http://bit.ly/MBmi4R).
23. Ibid.
24. Alan Bellows, “Bad Blood In Tuskegee” (http://bit.ly/LduslJ).
25. Dave Wong and Stephanie Lord, “People of the Tuskegee Experiment” (http://bit.ly/LNGdiN). See also the LeNoir: Tuskegee Syphilis Study Lecture on video (http://bit.ly/KSpPhj).
26. Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, “Study Clinicians” (http://bit.ly/MCVAHc).
27. Dave Wong and Stephanie Lord, “People of the Tuskegee Experiment,” Dr. Raymond H. Vonderlehr (http://bit.ly/LNGdiN).
28. Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, “Study Clinicians,” Dr. John R. Heller led the national division (http://bit.ly/MCVAHc).
29. Aftermath of the Study, Dr. John R. Heller quote: (http://bit.ly/NtsIDV). See also New York Times, July 26, 1972, p1.
30. Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, “Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press” Dr. John Heller’s quote is in the chapter entitled: “The History of ‘Black Paranoia’” on page 67 (http://bit.ly/L0WfkY).
31. Peter Buxtun, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/MIKtKF).
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Study Termination, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/MpOuFk).
35. Peter Buxtun, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/MIKtKF).
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid. See also “Effects of untreated syphilis in the negro male, 1932 to 1972: A closure comes to the Tuskegee study, 2004,” by Shamim M. Baker, Otis W. Brawley and Leonard S. Marks of the Urological Sciences Research Foundation. The article by Jean Heller, front page, New York Times, July 26, 1972. Investigative journalism first brought the story to public attention (http://bit.ly/fmdoUN). This news story is the property of Associated Press via Valeo Intellectual Property, Inc.
38. Ibid.
39. Memorandum, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of The Secretary, Merlin K. DuVal, M.D. says: “As recommended by the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel, I have decided that the ‘Tuskegee Study‘ as a study of untreated syphilis must be terminated.” (http://bit.ly/LolBMC).
40. Presidential Apology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee” (http://1.usa.gov/ckDD3i).
41. Ibid.
42. Roe v. Wade, Wikipedia (http://bit.ly/11oVBK).
43. Al Sharpton, “It’s Not About Obama, It’s About Your Momma” (http://bit.ly/vYz55I).
44. Frederick Douglass, “What The Black Man Wants” at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Boston, April, 1865, Douglass delivered the following speech on the subject: The Equality Of All Men Before The Law. Again, please note that Douglass’ speech was given within days of the close of the Civil War and the assassination of President Lincoln. (http://bit.ly/LHwoOC).