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» Pastor Says Obama Could Be a 'Sell Out'

• "African-American pastor Clenard Childress, who has spoken out against Obama, said he can't discount the inspiration of Obama's story. Childress, pro-life activist and pastor of New Calvary Baptist Church in Montclair, N.J., said, 'He went through the system and he prevailed over the system,' something Childress honestly didn't believe Obama could do. But Childress thinks … Obama's presidency … will not be good for the black community if he continues to push a pro-abortion, pro-homosexual agenda that hurts African-Americans: 'He has to prove that he has not sold out to the values of the black community for his own political gain. . . . He has to rule with a degree of integrity.'"

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» The "Picture of Women Who Get Abortions" Changed Over The Last 30 Years

From the Washington Post: "In the first comprehensive analysis since 1974 of demographic characteristics of women who have abortions, researchers found that the overall drop in the abortion rate has been marked by a dramatic shift, declining more among white women and teenagers than among black and Hispanic and older women. 'There's been a real change in the picture of women who get abortions,' said Rachel Jones, a senior research associate at the Guttmacher Institute, a private nonprofit reproductive health research organization considered to be one of the most authoritative sources on abortion trends. 'This is the first time anyone has looked at this in a comprehensive way.'"

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» There's Got To Be A Better Anti-Abortion Argument Than That

An anti-abortion group called Operation Rescue plans to demonstrate at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this weekend, with a message comparing racism to abortion. Their awkwardly-worded pamphlet reads, "Which is a worse crime: slavery or murder? The correct answer: murder. A slave can get free, but a murder victim cannot get 'undead.'" It will be quite the tough sell to the DNC crowd, that's for sure. [DP]

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» Birth Control Pills Equal Abortion?

A Bush Administration draft regulation that is circulating through the Department of Health and Human Services classifies birth-control pills and IUDs as abortion, because they prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus. Bushies consider this to be "destroying the life of the human being." The regulation could affect numerous state laws that provide easy access to birth control. Many legislators, including Barack Obama, have signed letters protesting the proposal. John McCain has offered no comment. [WSJ]

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Black Ministers Protest Planned Parenthood For Accepting Money From Racist Donors

A group of black ministers plans to protest at the Democratic and Republican national headquarters today to try to convince politicians to refuse donations from Planned Parenthood. Republican candidates get donations from Planned Parenthood? Anyway, the group is protesting because they say Planned Parenthood took donations from racist donors who wanted their money to go toward black abortions. For their part, Planned Parenthood says that they were victims of "phishing" and that their organization does not tolerate racism of any kind. It's not mentioned in the article, but Alveda King, the niece of MLK and leader of the group, is an extremely vocal pro-lifer. So the protest of Planned Parenthood is clearly not just about racist practices. [USN]

Jun 26, 2008 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 4 Responses

Damon Wayans Has Officially Lost The Gift Of Comedy

Sick Humor

Damon Wayans is responsible for the latest in a disturbing trend of abortion-trivializing stunts. This skit from his comedy channel, wayout.tv, features a super hero named Abortion Man stalking a pregnant teenager and literally beating the fetus out of her at the request of her teenage boyfriend. Hilarious. Why doesn't this guy get more work these days? [WAOD]

Apr 22, 2008 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 13 Responses

KIDS THESE DAYS "A Yale student who claims she artificially inseminated herself 'as often as possible' and then took drugs to induce miscarriages for her senior art project says she will showcase the stomach-turning display next week — complete with her own blood samples and videos from the terminated possible pregnancies."

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THESE CRAZY UNITED STATES Finally, "identity politics" reaches its logical conclusion: "A Senate candidate has legally changed his name to Pro-Life and will appear on the ballot that way this year, state election officials say. As Marvin Pro-Life Richardson, the organic strawberry farmer from Letha, 30 miles northwest of Boise, was denied the use of his middle name when he ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2006 because the state's policy bars the use of slogans on the ballot. Now, though, officials in the Idaho secretary of state's office say they have no choice because Pro-Life is his full and only name."

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Parting Shots

• Now he's back to Sean Combs. And I have officially lost patience with all of this. [NB]

• Ah, satire. [OHN]

• Are the Clintons trying to call Obama's pro-choice stance into question, despite him getting a 100 percent rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America? [JJP]

• Busta Rhymes makes a deal and stays out of jail. [MTV]

• If you friend Ghostface on Myspace, you better buy his record, too. [SOHH]

• Get it together, Heat players. [MM]

Jan 23, 2008 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 6 Responses

Minority Report

• White women are beating black women to the boardroom, according to a new report. Gee, that information must have been so hard for researchers to acquire. [NPR]

• Oh, please. Go tell it to a community that needs more teenage pregnancy and fatherless children and grandmothers-turned-guardians, because this one ain't it. [SFC]

• See! [FWST]

• Most blacks think the NYPD cops — who shot up the car (and body) of Sean Bell as he left a strip club with his boys the night before his wedding — are guilty. I just don't understand how they could come to that conclusion. [NYDN]

• Old-school civil rights joins new-school gay rights. [QT]

Jan 9, 2008 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 1 Response

Minority Report

• Rumor has it Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds are getting married in Tahiti today. One thing's for sure, whenever they do tie the knot, Angel Iris Murphy Brown will not be in attendance. [SR]

• Black coaches are still getting a raw deal in college football. [SN]

• Oh, please, please, Issues4Life Foundation! Please help African American teens have more babies. It's just what the community needs! [CCD]

• Interracial couples, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, does not want you. [BET]

• A genetic mutation that increases the odds of breast cancer in some Jewish women has been found in Hispanics and Blacks, as well. [CT]

Dec 28, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 2 Responses

Clarence Thomas Finally Lashes Out

For $1.5 Million

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, aka one of black America's least favorite black men (of all time, perhaps), has written a memoir, which the Washington Post characterizes as "angry." This makes sense, considering the fact that Thomas has been all but sitting in the corner sulking with his arms crossed since his contentious, scandal-plagued confirmation hearings in, umm, 1991. Someone's still nursing some hurt feelings.

"My Grandfather's Son," for which Thomas has received a reported $1.5 million, is a 289-page memoir of his life in rural Georgia, his reliance on religious faith and his rise to the high court. His book ends with the day he was sworn in and contains only fleeting mentions of his time on the bench.

Thomas lovingly describes the iron-willed grandfather who raised him after his own father abandoned him as a toddler, praises the Roman Catholic Church for providing him with an education but criticizes it for not being as "adamant about ending racism then as it is about ending abortion now," and gives a detailed description of the confirmation hearings that electrified the nation in 1991 and the sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill that he said destroyed his reputation.

Wow. That critique of the Catholic church — that it was not as adamant about ending racism then as it is about ending abortion now — is a pretty damn ballsy statement coming from Clarence Thomas. Is it too much to hope that he spends a portion of the $1.5 million he received for the book on some lessons in self-reflection? Or therapy? I wish I didn't care, but we are stuck with this guy for a long, long time.

[WP]

Oct 1, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 4 Responses

Minority Report

Ooh, her dead son is a football player. Bet she has some nice stuff!

In case you ever doubted how messed up things are in New Orleans, Sherry Hill, the mother of drowned New England Patriot Marquise Hill, was robbed for $16,000 worth of belongings while she was at his funeral. [SI]

At the Miss Black USA pageant, held in Gambia, the contestants had an Imus-free atmosphere. [BAW]

Apparently the Conyers/Jefferson debacle at Fox News recently wasn't the first black politician switcheroo the network has made recently. Late last year, they showed a video of Harold Ford when they were discussing the "virility" of Barack Obama. [MM]

Dr. Alveda King, pro-life activist and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s niece, tells Obama the real quiet riot in the black community is abortion. Okay. Considering the number of black babies being cycled through foster care or born to teenage mothers, I think she may be overstating the case a bit. [LN]

Black professors out there, MIT may not be the place for you. [BG]

Jun 7, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 2 Responses