No,
Oprah. COVID-19 Is Not Ravaging Us. Abortion Is.
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Source: Alyssa Pointer /Atlanta Journal-Constitution
via AP
How is it that celebrities like Oprah see
negative racial
disparities in every facet of
American life, except in the one industry that
deliberately kills?
Oprah recently opined about the disproportionate impact of
the coronavirus in black communities. COVID-19, according to the guru of talk,
is “taking us out.”
Honestly, this is what happens when you look at everything in
life through the broken prism of race. “We as a people, as African Americans,
have jobs that require us to be at work. For so many African Americans, there
isn't this ability to telecommute,” the multi-billionaire Oprah Winfrey told NBC News from
the cushy confines of her multi-million dollar home. First of all, stop
racializing things Oprah. People of every hue have these jobs and many are at
higher risk of exposure regardless of their pigmentation. Millions and millions
of people of any color
are not able to telecommute.
In fact, according to the Department of Labor, from 2017 to 2018 the
vast majority of Americans did not telework. This
includes 68% of Asian Americans, 74% of whites, 82% of African-Americans, and
87% of Hispanics.
There is no doubt that there are numerous health disparities in the black community
that largely contribute to the disproportionate impact of this virus. The
public needs to be well-informed, not fed another us versus them narrative.
Race is the easy scapegoat, because in and out of a pandemic it doesn’t address
personal responsibility and behaviors that lead to negative health outcomes.
I’m waiting for the Left to denounce these block parties, by the way (here and here). So
while churchgoers in Kentucky were threatened by
Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) with having their licenses recorded and the state
health department showing up at their doors to force
quarantine them, hundreds of block partiers in
Florida were merely asked to go home—no tickets, no heavy-handed State action.
Dare I say it looks like a case of black privilege?
Democrat
Mayor Lori Lightfoot, you know the one who chose separate and unequal treatment
by getting a haircut while
telling the rest of Chicagoans that hair care is not essential, said of the
coronavirus' impact on African-Americans: “the numbers take your breath away.”
Like Oprah, she told CBS News that
the virus “is devastating” black communities. As of April 15th, the Chicago Department of Public
Health reported a
total of 386 deaths: 48.3%
black, 21.4% Hispanic, 20.8% white, 3.7% Asian, 5.8% “other," and 28.9%
unknown. More importantly, 91% of Chicago residents who died, according to the
report, had underlying chronic health conditions. I wonder if the 23,189 abortions in
her county in 2018 take the pro-abortion mayor's
breath away?
Even with the shoddy statistical reporting that has marked
health organizations like the CDC, it is globally evident that people who are
elderly and those with pre-existing conditions like diabetes, hypertension,
obesity, and lung-related issues are at much higher risk with
COVID-19. Every life is precious, so let's not claim a larger victimhood
status. People in poorer communities lack access to testing. People in
wealthier communities have similar lack of access. Access to testing has been
an abysmal failure, period. This disease doesn't care which pigmentation your
skin has. "It's ravaging our community," Oprah told the Today show.
In this time of pandemic panic, we don’t need hyperbole. We need
honesty. Coronavirus is not “ravaging” the black community. Violent crime is.
Fatherlessness is. Abortion is. Devotion to a political party that depends on
perpetual narratives of victimhood is.
Sadly, Oprah and the entire leadership of the
Democrat Party proudly support and promote the pandemic of abortion in the
black community which disproportionately kills hundreds of thousands of the most
vulnerable black lives every year. The number of black lives taken out annually
in America by abortion is more than twice the current number
(138,101 as of April 16th) of total coronavirus
deaths worldwide. Thirty-five percent of abortions in the
U.S. are among African-Americans, according to the CDC. If we applied that to
the total number of U.S. abortions reported by the (pro-abortion) Guttmacher
Institute in 2017 (862,320 abortions of
which 301,812 of them were committed on black babies), there are an estimated
827 black lives wiped out by abortion every single day.
Despite this, Oprah isn’t sounding any alarm about
the violence of abortion. She’s pushed abortion in numerous ways through her
media empire, whether promoting “Christian”
(charlatan) abortionist Dr. Willie Parker (now seemingly silenced by accusations of
being a sexual predator), hosting the pro-abortion United State of Women summit, or featuring the
#ShoutYourAbortion hashtag movement in her magazine. It's sad how those who
escaped the violence of abortion work to ensure that others don't. It's even
more heartbreaking when you read these words from
Oprah to her mother where she thanks her that she wasn't aborted:
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‘Thank you. Thank you, because I know it’s been
hard for you. It was hard for you as a young girl having a baby, in
Mississippi. No education. No training. No skills. Seventeen, you get pregnant
with this baby. Lots of people would have told you to give that baby away. Lots
of people would’ve told you to abort that baby. You didn’t do that. I know that
was hard. I want you to know that no matter what, I know that you always did
the best you knew how to do. And look how it turned out.’”
With or without great achievements, every human
life has equal and irrevocable value. No, Oprah. Coronavirus isn't ravaging us.
Believing lies about ourselves is. We're not victims. We're victors. Black
people have overcome so much in this country, from slavery to lynchings to Jim
Crow. We don't need abortion. We don't need to make a colorblind virus racial.
We need each
other, as we have throughout this flawed but great country's history--black,
white and every hue in between. We're always better when we're
united.
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