Pro-life “Dad’s Princess” billboards called “weird” and racist
Anti-abortion billboards targeting predominantly African American communities in Atlanta have many questioning the motivations of Prolife Across America, the organization that erected them….
Atlantans aren’t the only ones up in arms about the posters, which are being called racist. The same signs have been placed in Memphis and African American residents are criticizing them for their messaging, telling Raycom News Network that it pits black men against black women.
“To use black men like me to facilitate the erasure of black women like my wife and others from the conversation about their own bodies is not only propaganda, it’s pathetic and repulsive.” Memphis Pastor Earle Fisher told Raycom.
~ Article entitled, “Anti-abortion group targets black neighborhoods with weird ‘dad’s princess’ billboards,” Raw Story, June 5
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Totally backwards. Apparently preborn black lives don’t matter?
If Pro-Life Across America only used white babies in its advertising, THAT would be racist.
“it pits black men against black women.”
First of all, only one of the parents of that little princess was necessarily black.
Secondly, I would say that the billboard encourages a man to get involved so that a woman doesn’t make a mistake. Let’s also put up billboards encouraging women not to let men pressure them into making a mistake. The solution is more billboards, not fewer billboards.
Congratulations Pastor Fisher on your sophisticated observation… your clear and reasoned argument… certainly you are one of the great uniters…
I would put your comment right up there with the classic “blob of cells” and “I like unicorns” apologetic.
Sarcasm.
If pro-lifers didn’t use black babies in any of their billboards, abortion proponents would probably complain that the billboards only show white babies. They’re hard to please!
Shame that they see this build board and immediately their minds go to pitting one parent against the other…
Tells something about their character already.
Pro-aborts already readily agree to the concept of the mother pitting her convenience over her childs life.
I don’t see that billboard as all that bad. There have been others from the same group in the past that are more painfully lame, and just plain outright silly.
However, Pastor Fisher has a point, though I think his comment was a bit over the top. There is also the fact that often, the dad isn’t going to be involved in the kid’s life, and so the “Dad’s Princess” thing is often pretty silly there too.
It’s racist to try to SAVE black babies by putting up these billboards in black neighborhoods, but NOT RACIST to purposely open Planned Parenthoods in black neighborhoods to KILL black babies? When will African-Americans realize they are being USED by the Left in general and by the abortion industry in particular?
I think it’s pretty racist to immediately go to ” black guys aren’t gonna be around to raise their kids”, Doug. Seems like that mostly comes up when anyone tries a pro fatherhood thing about African Americans.
Jack, I thought of that, when I posted. Why, really, do you see that as “racist,” when it’s just plain true?
downyduck: When will African-Americans realize they are being USED by the Left in general and by the abortion industry in particular?
Oh please. When an African American woman has an abortion, the overwhelming majority of the time it’s because she wants to. She’s not doing it for you or for “the Left” or anybody else but her.
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We need these billboards. If black lives matter, then let’s begin at the abortion clinics!
Weird = Awesome.
Memphis Pastor Earle Fisher = not so accurate. That’s an awesome observation Acyutananda. This is blatantly about something else to this pastor… something other than the protection of African Americans in his community. Maybe he’s friends with Eric Holder and his wife or owns an abortuary himself.
Margaret Sanger would have given one of her famous awards to this prize of the eugenics movement in America.
It smells like it has something to do with money sex and or politics, as usual it has nothing to do with women’s health or the protection of children. Maybe Mr. Fisher can’t fathom the possibility of interracial couples like the National Association of Black Social Workers… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_adoption = sad.
“To use black men like me to facilitate the erasure of black women like my wife and others from the conversation about their own bodies is not only propaganda, it’s pathetic and repulsive.”
What I find pathetic and repulsive is the amount of pre-teen and teen girls running around with skin tight shorty-shorts or less on. I’ve actually seen some shorts with the word ‘Princess’ written across the rear.
Why aren’t men like Mr. Fisher speaking out about this? Why are men allowing their princesses to leave the house dressed like this? I don’t care what your race is — man-up and get involved with the children who made it out alive.
Racist? And how exactly does this simple, beautiful message pit black men against black women? I live in MN, Pro Life Across America’s home base, and work in multi-racial north Minneapolis where Mary Ann Kuharski’s group has been sponsoring billboards for years. Including a spot about a block from where I work. I’ve never heard a single complaint about the billboards being racist.
I think any sane woman of any race would be happy to have an involved, loving father in the picture who treats his little girl like a princess.
Saving African-American children from being killed is somehow racist against African-Americans?