Prometheus 6

So what did Black folks get when white folks took over the "Democrats were the racists before the Civil War" meme from Deroy Murdock?

We got anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers."

Hoye has bigger plans, hoping to eventually open chapters of Issues4Life across the country as a way to create a "one-stop shopping place" where black leaders, particularly pastors, will be able to get the information they need to teach others about the problem....

The Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP, said that abortion is not a civil rights issue and that he has no plans to take part in the events.

Berkeley preacher calls for blacks to fight abortion
Leslie Fulbright, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, January 7, 2008

Saying they are faced with a civil rights crisis that demands immediate attention, African American anti-abortion advocates will hold three events in the Bay Area later this month in an aggressive push to combat the high number of abortions among black women.

"The abortion issue is huge. It is the Darfur of America," and it's time to educate the public about it, said Walter Hoye, a Berkeley preacher who founded the Issues4Life Foundation, a recently formed Union City-based organization intent on drafting more African Americans into the fight against abortion.