The Senate Should Investigate What Pastor Clenard Childress, Jr., Calls "Black Genocide"?

The Senate  should  investigate the  practices of  Planned Parenthood  that Pastor Clenard Childress, Jr., justifiably calls "black genocide"? 

Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as
... "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;"

Pastor Childress charges Planned Parenthood because "Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America. 78% of their clinics are in minority communities. Blacks make up 12% of the population, but 35% of the abortions in America. Are we being targeted? Isn't that genocide? We are the only minority in America that is on the decline in population. If the current trend continues, by 2038 the black vote will be insignificant. Did you know that the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a devout racist who created the Negro Project designed to sterilize unknowing black women and others she deemed as undesirables of society? The founder of Planned Parenthood said, 'Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.' Is her vision being fulfilled today?"  Childress wgarns "the most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb"

   Dr. Martin Luther King’s niece, Dr. Alveda King,  condemns   Democratic Party supported Planned Parenthood's  abortion practices. King points out  “The leading cause of death in the African-American community is not gang-violence, gun violence, heart attack, stroke, HIV, high blood pressure, diabetes. People will name all these. No, it’s abortion. And the reason we have come to that conclusion, statistically, you’ve got 60 million plus abortions legal in America since 1973. About a third of those occur in the African-American community. That means dead babies. And, with us being 13 percent or less of America’s population that means we are having more abortions'."

  King says " the number of abortions don't mean that African-Americans are more immoral or don’t care."  Instead  she states:  "We are just regular, everyday people like everyone else. But Planned Parenthood moved into our community with the abortion killing centers and said, ‘We’re here to help you. Let’s kill your baby, so you can have a better life.’ Well, killing our babies doesn’t give us a better life. I have had my own abortions in the 1970s. They were secret then, and after I became born again in 1983 and became a pro-life voice, I began to talk about how those abortions hurt me and my family."

Dr. Day Gardner points out that  Planned Parenthood is worse than  the Ku Klux Klan.  "The KKK brutally killed about 3,500 black people since it began in 1865, Sanger’s Planned Parenthood is responsible for 19 million black deaths since 1973."

Gardner quotes Margaret Sanger’s letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble which explained Sanger’s  evil plot.

“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the negroes is through religious appeal. We don’t want word to go out that we want to exterminate the negro population. The minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

Gardner points out that  Planned Parenthood has continued  to follow Sanger’s playbook. 

"Today, black ministers, politicians, and community organizers are still 'hired' to support Margaret Sanger’s form of ethnic cleansing. With full knowledge of how abortion is decimating the black community, they, like Judas, have sold their souls for '30 pieces of silver'.”.

Clearly Planned Parenthood’s targeting of black women to stop them  from having babies  is a form of  genocide under the   Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide  
"any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;"

If you believe the Senate  should  investigate the  practices of  Planned Parenthood please write your Senators in your own words or send them a copy of this post.

The Real Story of Slavery - Part 2

The initial forced labor in the British North American colonies involved indentured servants who served a limited amount of time and were then freed. Many whites volunteered to  serve a period of time in exchange for funds to pay for their trip to North America. Although these indentured servants were only temporary slaves, they were slaves in every sense of the word.   Owners could mistreat them and even choose their sexual partners.  Use of   indentured servants continued through April, 1775, when prominent Virginia planter George Washington     advertised  a reward  for the return of 8 white and 2 black runaways.
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  The Africans and many Irish were forced to travel to the British colonies. Irish were sometimes sentenced to "transportation to America" for illegal acts.  Over 300,000 Irish  were sent to North America and the West Indies as slaves.  .  Thousands of children from London streets were rounded up and sent to the Americas. 

 Most indentured servants were white, particularly Irish, but some were Africans like Anthony Johnson who like white indentured servants was given some land after being freed.  Johnson used indentured servants on his land. 

Later when a decision was made to allow people to be held as permanent slaves, only Africans could be permanent slaves because they were foreigners.  The law didn't allow British subjects to be permanent slaves.  However, initially black children of indentured servants could be treated as permanent slaves because the mother's status as free or nor free determined the  child's status.  If the mother was a slave the child woul be a slave.   This practice differed from the traditional practice of having the father's social status determine the child's status.    A white slave child would be considered an indentured servant.  A black slave child would become  a permanent slave.

By the time permanent slavery began whites and blacks had been having relationships for years and produced children of mixed ancestry.   Some plantation owners forced white female  indentured servants to mate with black men so the children would become permanent slaves.  This practice increased the portion of the slave population that had European [white] genes as well as African [black] genes.   The slave population received additional white DNA from slave owners and overseers.

The relationships among those of mixed ancestry and between those with  mixed ancestry and whites were producing children who could " pass for white " in the 18th Century.   Some with a slightly dark complexion might have claimed to be of North American or Mediterranean ancestry to gain acceptance as whites. 

The relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his sister-in-law and virtual wife  Sally Hemings provides an example of this situation.  Hemings was the daughter of a union between Jefferson's father-in-law  John Wayles. and a slave. Wayles took Hemings' mother as his concubine after his first three wives died.   Hemings was legally classified as  "white" and had  long straight hair, but the social situation and laws governing slavery likely made an actual marriage impossible.   Some of their children later passed for white after being freed and leaving Virginia. 

This situation demonstrates that slavery was no longer about "race" or "color" in 1800.  Even though Hemings was the "white" daughter of a plantation owner, she was still considered a slave who became part of the property of her father's estate when he died in 1774. 

Various accounts in the following years indicate that household servants were often of lighter complexion than field slaves.   Many suggest this situation indicates color prejudice.  The more likely explanation is that the household servants had lighter complexions because they were related to the plantation owner.

By the time of the Civil War there were 5,000 black slave owners and  many slaves who were light complexioned or even white.  

The strange case of Jane / Alexina Morrison demonstrates that slavery wasn't necessarily about color.  According to the slave trader who sold her in Louisiana the blonde haired blue-eyed young woman he called "Jane" was born a slave. The woman who called herself "Alexina" sued him for kidnapping her after she escaped from him. The case bounced around the Louisiana courts just before the Civil War with juries siding with the woman and the courts with the slave trader.  It  apparently is still technically before the courts.   Regardless of which person was telling the truth, the fact that the courts even considered the possibility of Morrison being a slave demonstrates that white slaves were a part of southern slavery by the start of the Civil War.   Some of the escaped slaves whose narratives were published before the Civil War mentioned having seen white slaves.    Harpet's  Weekly in January carried a picture of  slaves recently freed by the Union army who were white.

The Real Story of Slavery - Part 1

Many  Americans believe slavery only involved white people owning black people.  They believe the master race was white and the slave race was black.  North American slavery actually involved relatively rich people,[e.g. land owners]  owning poor people who might or might not be of the same color.  

There were two types of forced laborers brought to North America:  indentured  servants and permanent slaves.   Most of the primarily Irish indentured servants were forced to travel to North America, but some were volunteers.  The first Africans were treated as indentured servants but were eventually treated as permanent slaves.  Members of the two groups worked together and the historical account indicates there was sufficient sexual contact between the two to produce a hybrid group of permanent slaves whose members could be  called "black Irish".

Unfortunately,the fact that most  slaves were black and most owners were white led to a belief among some whites that this situation meant blacks are inferior to whites.   This belief began during the slave era in part as a way to justify treating some people as slaves in an otherwise free country.

The first  Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619 only 14 years after the founding of the settlement.  During the two centuries of the Atlantic slave trade only about 500,000 additional Africans were imported into North America.   Britain led the way to ending the Atlantic slave trade in 1807 and the United States quickly followed to outlaw the importation of slaves without prohibiting the internal slave trade
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Initially North American forced laborers were white temporary slaves called "indentured servants" who served for a specified term such as 5-10 years.   The first Africans who arrived at Jamestown were treated as indentured servants   . Anthony Johnson arrived in 1620 and received some land from the Virginia colony  after he was freed.   In 1651 he  owned five indentured servants (four white and one black.  man named John Casor, who was  considered a permanent slave).

The term "indentured servant" is deceptive because during their period of indenture "servants"  could be brutally mistreated like regular slaves.  Some owners treated much cheaper Irish indentured servants  worse than ;lifetime slaves.  Africans cost from 20-50 pounds Sterling compared to about 5 pounds Sterling for an Irishman. 

Owners could even choose who  servants would mate with like  they were breeding  horses. Owners might use whites to breed lighter colored  slaves to be  sold.  Raising slaves for sale would become a signaficant part of the plantation economy. Light colored females would eventually be sold as "fancy slaves" to be prostitutes or concubines who might command a higher price than a prime field hand.

Many servants were children  picked up from London   streets.  The exploitation of children in the North American workplace would continue into the 20th Century.

Europe didn't have a large enough population to support large scale agriculture in the Western Hemisphere when colonization began.  The British used the colonies to relocate the Irish, but Ireland only had a population of 1.5 million.  The Spanish use of African slaves had begun before the discovery of land available for settlement in the Western Hemisphere.

Africans had been capturing, enslaving and selling each other for thousands of years  before Christopher Columbus discovered a huge new market for African slave traders.   Africans continued to enslave each other after the end of North American slavery.  There are reports that Africans still practice slavery.

The career of  Englishman John Newton demonstrates not only that whites could be slaves, but that those who engaged in the slave trade could also be slaves.   Newton was a sailor on a slave ship whose shipmates sold him to a West African slave trader because  they didn't get along with him.   A friend of Newton's retired ship captain father arranged to free Newton. Newton evenstually got a position as the captain of a slave ship.  A religious experience convinced Newton to become a Christian minister and become active in the movement to abolish slavery.  He wrote the popular hymn "Amazing Grace" which according to gospel singer Larnelle Harris uses a west African sorrow chant for the melody.

Do You Live in Fort Stepford?

I considered  naming the Fort after the Ohio city that threw two retired veterans in  jail for not painting their home.  The heartless city officials were ungrateful for the fact  that the veterans were willing to risk all of their tomorrows so the city officials could have their todays. 

The veterans didn't know they were living in Fort Stepford.  The fictional city of  Stepford is the home  of robotic wives. A Fort Stepford  city is a city where government martinets try to force rigid adherence to the city's military like regulations.  City codes define the condition a resident owner's  house and yard must be in to avoid a fine. or worse.  If you have an old car you want to fix "someday" you will need a garage to keep it in because you can't keep an old car in your yard  in Fort Stepford.

Fort Stepford  cities don't care about people.  Fort Stepford  cities don't care if people are happy.  Fort Stepford  cities only care about appearances.  Fort Stepford  cities don't care if people have a place to live as long as houses are "neat and pretty". Fort Stepford  cities don't care if people have enough to eat as long as houses are properly painted.
People friendly cities recognize a house can only be a home if the  house and yard serve the personality and interests of  the resident owner.   People ..have to conform  to  an employer's behavior standards at work. Home is where they can be  themselves.  Adults and  children can play with their "toys" and keep a toy in the yard even if the "toy" is a 1956  Chevy.

Was Nancy Pelosi On Something During SOTU?

I debated posting because I don't have experience observing 79 year old women. I don't know what behavior is normal.

I decided to observe House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after noticing an expression on her face that reminded me of the facial expression comic Imogene Coca used when she wanted to appear dopey.

As I observed her behavior she seemed at times to behave as if  she was unaware of where she was and that  millions of people were watching her.  I  initially thought she might have been affected by alcohol or medication.

After she childishly tore up the speech I realized some of her earlier behavior was childish.    Childish behavior in a 79 year old might indicate a  problem.   Someone who knows more such matters  than I
do should  watch a video of Pelosi at SOTU.

Kansas Municipal Courts Are Unconstitutional

Kansas  municipal courts  violate both the state and federal constitutions.

Kansas  municipal courts don't have the constitutional authority to legally fine people, take property or place people in jail, but do so anyway. The Kansas Constitution assigns the judicial power to courts under the administrative control of the Kansas Supreme Court. Cities have no authority to operate separate court systems under the control of city governments.
Cities can only exercise governmental powers as an agency of the state of Kansas because the U.S. Constitution only allows state and federal government agencies to exercise governmental powers.

Kansas  municipal court "judges" are really private contractors who are retained to raise revenue for cities by imposing fines on those accused by the city of violating its ordinances. The "judge" negotiates a contract to perform a service for the city government in exchange for a salary.
Allowing the city manager who is the boss of the police department to be the boss of the municipal court judge violates the due process clause of the 14th Amendment because the courts must be independent of law enforcement to insure the opportunity for a fair trial. Using fines and court costs imposed on defendants to fund the court gives the court a vested interest in finding people guilty.

In many cities, the city governing body determines who will get the contract to run the "court" for the city. Some use a more questionable process with the city manager choosing the "judge" along with the prosecutor and police chief. "Judges" who fail to raise sufficient revenue may find themselves replaced by someone who might do a better job.
One of the main reasons for making the federal courts separate from the executive branch and providing fair trial guarantees was to prevent misuse of the criminal justice system and insure that only those who actually violated legitimate laws were punished. Defendants can have no expectation of fair treatment when the same body hires and fires  both the judge and the police chief.

The use of fines as a revenue source has enough potential for abuse even with independent judges because government may enact laws, including minor traffic laws such as "speed traps", for the primary purpose of raising money rather than to prevent behavior that threatens public safety.
The U.S. Constitution made the judiciary a separate branch of government to prevent the executive branch from misusing the criminal justice system to punish political opponents, rather than to allow Supreme Court justices to impose their political views on elected officials. The framers of the Constitution recognized that an independent judiciary was more likely to respect the rights of defendants than take orders from the executive.
An official who signs a contract with the executive to handle cases involving violations of local ordinances may have the title of "judge", but does not qualify as the independent arbiter required by the U.S. Constitution to determine whether those accused of violating laws can be punished.
An ambitious attorney might be able to put together a class action law suit on behalf of those illegally fined or jailed by the municipal court.  False imprisonment cases could be lucrative because the attorney could sue the judge, the city and any  county  jail that accepts city prisoners.