Posted by
Mike on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 1:23:45 PM
http://westernperspective.blogspot.com/
Racism and abortion both dehumanize persons and reduce them to the level of disposable objects.
I remember growing up as a child in Pasadena, California in the spring and summer 1960. My family had just moved west from Pittsburgh and were living in a rental house in a modest, racially mixed neighborhood.
One hot summer day my brothers and I went to an outing at a local community facility. We had a wonderful time swimming and playing "tug of war" games across a mud filled pit. Afterwards at about 2:30 we all ate free watermelon. I do not consider eating watermelon as being in anyway racially demeaning. At that same place after the event, I saw and heard an older white boy taunting younger African American boys pertaining to their skin pigmentation comparing it to human waste, which led to a physical altercation.
I am appalled at the uproar over an image depicting watermelons planted on the White House lawn which was sent last week as an attachment to email by the former mayor of a quiet town in Orange County, California.
Los Angeles County has a history of racism going back to its early years after the annexation of California by the United States. Also in Los Angeles history, there was a long standing practice of sweeping abortion under the rug to protect from paternity lawsuits police officers and government officers who frequented prostitutes. This resulted in a murder coverup so that the criminal abortionist who murdered a young woman from out of state would not be exposed for the criminal that he was.
We will never end racism in America until we first treat all persons as children of God, and stop treating anyone, including unborn children, as disposable waste or as objects for selfish gratification.