Published: October 10, 2008 12:03 am            

HAMILTON: Thugs and drugs over sweet kisses and hugs

Until we get it, it bears repeating — over and over and over again. I hate to say it, but the 25-year-old black man is believed to be the poster child of all murders.

The fact is that it’s simply not true. Based on percentages, the most lethal killing machine in the state of New York is the pregnant black woman.

Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson often said that most crimes against blacks are black-on-black crimes. He said the same about whites, Hispanics and all other such groups — because we always hurt those with whom we are closest.

In the last year that statistics were available, the state Department of Health reported that there were 512 African-American victims of homicide or legal interventions (police shootings) in the state. Four hundred forty-five were men.

Historically, 90 percent of the victims in police shootings are either black or Hispanic. But while police shootings are tragic, they are still statistically rare. As Jackson suggests, most of those blacks killed were black men killing black men and many victims of those homicides were those who were engaged in criminal enterprises against other such groups involved in the same businesses. Also tragic is the likelihood that some of the 67 females killed were victims of domestic violence.

Now, let’s tie all of this together. We all are most likely to hurt those who are both most like us and closest to us. Not listed in those same NYSDOH homicide statistics were the 50,349 male and female black babies that were killed by their mothers while they were yet in the wombs. Those babies were about as close to their mothers, and like them, as anyone could ever be. Hence, statistically, the most lethal killing machine in the state is the pregnant black woman.

In 2006, African-American women in New York produced 52,212 live births, killing nearly as many babies as they permitted to be born.

A generation ago, we would have said that this ultimate form of domestic violence and genocide was wrong.

Today we call it a right.

But let a young black male who survived his mother’s “decision” later become one of the 220 homicides of African-American males between the ages of 15-34 due to his engaging in illegal activities.

It is there that you will find the so-called community leaders bearing Bibles and candles and praying for an end of the violence. Yet they never hear the babies crying. Seemingly, we prefer thugs and drugs over sweet kisses and hugs.

The Planned Parenthood van is ever present at Highland Avenue’s predominately Baptist African-American Family Festival and is absent from Pine Avenue’s primarily Catholic Italian Festival, yet white New York women aborted about one-in-three of their babies, allowing but 163,769 to be born. And we wonder why the state is losing population?

It’s not the economy — it is simply the aborting by mommy.

Sometimes even the brightest of Americans can’t figure it out. At lat week’s program at Our Lady of Fatima Shrine, Dr. Alveda C. King admitted that her Nobel Prize-winning Uncle Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fooled into supporting Planned Parenthood’s and founder Margaret Sanger’s agenda of social eugenics. She read from her notes words to wit that the organization’s goal was to get negro religious leaders on board with them to make it seem that they were doing the right thing. Aveda King is one of relatively few black religious leaders who have come out against abortion.

King also cited that there is a close correlation between abortions and an elevated risk of breast cancer. Being that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, you would think that the “Think Pink” people would have included the correlation in all of their literature.

But like its poverty twin, abortion is a huge and profitable industry. King pointed out that there may be quality issues with the free condoms and birth control medications that are given out to the poor people who are most likely to engage in premarital sex and subsequently seek the government-sponsored abortions.

But there is help out there for the growing number of young women who are choosing to the right thing. King and her Priests for Life group is passing the word and Liz Biznell’s Summit Life Outreach Center (298-8600) is providing help, training and supplies for expectant/new mothers and their babies to smooth the transition to a better tomorrow.

New York grew into the Empire State because of solid families. If we want to rebuild hope in Niagara then we must first rebuild Niagara’s families. We must prefer hugs over drugs!

Ken Hamilton is a Niagara Falls resident. Contact him at kenhamilton930@aol.com.

        

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