Posts Tagged ‘Black Lives Matter’
Diary of a black pro-lifer: Loud activists and quiet sponges
by Jacqueline Hawkins
There seem to be two groups of black students who come to see our ALL Black Lives Matter (ABLM) signs, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists and the I’m-just-here-to-get-my-education (IJHTGME) students.
The BLM activist students lose their minds, but the IJHTGME students absorb ABLM like parched sponges.
When BLM students see us use their slogans to expose their own hypocrisy, they blow a gasket. At Purdue University, the BLM students (mostly women) pulled out all the stops, trading in their dignity to become out-of-control, stereotypical caricatures of black women. There was wild neck rolling, finger wagging, fist shaking, and nearly unintelligible shrieking and cursing.
According to one of the BLM students, only white people could be racist because they had power; black people had no power so they couldn’t be racist, only prejudiced. Armed with their own delusions, they spewed putrid racism for all their peers to see (and cower from).
BLM students are used to behaving like this with anyone and everyone. They do this because it usually works to get them their way. But it doesn’t work with us, and before long, they tire out. The shrill screaming and wild body movements gets exhausting. They lose their voices. They get cricks in their necks.
But despite all the theatrics, the giant display is still there, exposing abortion and the damage it does to Black community.
So they disappear, and in their places come the quiet sponges, many of whom readily accept the comparison of abortion with Jim Crow and slavery. They are shocked to learn about the racist origins of Planned Parenthood and the way PP is suppressing the Black vote. Not everyone is convinced, but most are willing to listen with open minds, and for that we praise God.
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.
ALL Black Lives Matter at Purdue University
by Jacqueline Hawkins
A group of scrappy, industrious pro-life students did their own ALL Black Lives Matter campaign at Purdue. In February, the Purdue Students for Life (PSFL) posted fliers that focused on abortion in the black community. Their intentions were in the right place, but their fliers stated opinions instead of facts (though their message was completely truthful). There was an intense and vicious backlash from radical elements of the student body. There were even Facebook attacks from a Purdue staff member.
We went to Purdue to convey three messages:
- ALL Black Lives Matter, including every preborn child.
- Every abortion is a savage act of violence.
- Leftist pro-aborts don’t get to decide who may speak, nor what may be said.
Pastor Clenard Childress and his Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN) helped us create a racially diverse team, ready and willing to take on all comers.
The first day was filled with turmoil. Several BLM activists resorted to hysteric theatrics to make their point, only to make themselves look like ridiculous caricatures. It was hard for them to play the race card with so many blacks behind the barricades. On the second day, the BLM activists disappeared, but a small group of LGBTWXYZers protested. Or maybe they were LGBTTQQFAGPBDSMers — not too sure about that. Anyway, …
They laid out blankets on the grass and lounged about the whole day. No chants, no jeers, just lounging. By the third day, most of the crazies had disappeared. Except for one angry, loud student, we were visited by a diverse array of inquisitive, thoughtful, and calm students.
The PSFL were amazing. There were smart, bold, and strong. They had been knocked down, but instead of cowering in the closet, they regrouped, strategized, and came out swinging for the sake of children — specifically black children. They worked together as a team and welcomed collaboration. At CBR, we oppose human cloning, but in the case of PSFL, we might make an exception!
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.
Planned Parenthood incites violent microaggressions toward black pro-lifers at Mizzou
by Jacqueline Hawkins
According to the definition found on microaggressions.com — yes, that is a real website — “Racial microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color.”
“[Microaggressions] create and enforce uncomfortable, violent and unsafe realities onto peoples’ workplace, home, school, childhood/adolescence/adulthood, and public transportation/space environments.” (source: Microaggressions.com)
If that’s the case, then Planned Parenthood (PP) is guilty of multiple violent microaggressions at the University of Missouri (Mizzou).
At our recent visit to the campus, CBR worked alongside the Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN), a pro-life organization led by black men and women with a message to the black community. We were there to say that if Black Lives Matter, then ALL Black Lives Matter.
For the record, I am a black woman and also a Project Director at CBR.
But when Mizzou students incited by PP arrived, they were especially disturbed to see us black folks. “We don’t like that you are tokenizing minorities for your agenda!” they shouted. And, “You shouldn’t use minorities to further your agenda!”
Note how the uppity white kids did not speak directly to the black pro-lifers. They didn’t come to us and say that they were concerned about our presence and the intent of our white co-workers. Instead, they spoke about us, in our presence, as if we were children at a daycare. Or perhaps slaves, mindlessly doing the will of our white masters, too stupid to comprehend the conversation going on about us.
How demeaning can you be, to suggest that black people are so stupid, we can’t even decide for ourselves whether to be pro-life or pro-abortion. If black people don’t act right, it must be the fault of our white masters.
Please, let’s call this what it is … racism, pure and simple. The PP students viewed us as nothing more than stupid “nigger joes,” unqualified to have our own views. They were so filled with contempt, they wouldn’t even speak with us directly. We were beneath them, unworthy to be treated as equals. So they addressed their comments to our white “masters” (according to their view).
Maybe Blacks really do need a safe space at Mizzou. No PP allowed, because they just want to kill off the stupid niggers in the womb so that America can be made into their lily-white ideal.
PS: Planned Parenthood, don’t try to suggest that you didn’t incite this violence against us. They were carrying your signs.
Jacqueline Hawkins is a CBR Project Director and a regular FAB contributor.