There is No I in Team

First published in February 2009

I love football and I am a big Dallas Cowboy fan. I guess you can image how disappointed I was to see what was commonly reported to be one of the more talented teams in the NFL go crashing down at the end of the season. Of course all the armchair analysis pointed to many reasons why a team as talented as the Cowboys could not make it happen last season. However, one of the more astute analyses I encountered came from my son Jamaal, who is a lifetime Cowboys fan. Jamaal’s analysis basically said although the “Boys” had the talent to win it all, they did not play as a team. “The Cowboys simply did not play as a team, but rather as individuals.”

Could this be a major reason why the pro-life movement is not winning the struggle against the culture of death and the community of pro-aborts? One of the great challenges of the pro-life community continues to be their need to connect with, and work with the black conservative pro-life movement. Any astute observer recognizes that the conservative black community stands four square with the pro-life community on issues of life and traditional marriage.

Most of our friends in the majority community acknowledge there is a need for us to connect with one another in order to present a unified front against our common foe. However, more has to be done to include black conservatives in the planning and development of strategies and tactics that would facilitate greater mobilization of our respective communities across our country. The Pro-life movement has not maximized for mobilization en-masse with black folks who agree wholeheartedly with the fundamental suppositions of the pro-life movement. Frankly, there has been an incredible disconnect between the majority community and the black community. Our community is being devastated by Plan Parenthood’s targeted efforts to make pre-natal murder a common practice among us. The black community constitutes 35% of all pre-natal murders performed in America. We deeply desire to work as a team with our allies.

I have been involved on and off in the struggle for life since 1983. I have worked with white warriors who have helped to rescue babies all over Dallas. There has been incredible support from individuals; I’m sure all over this country that those who worked together with black individuals with some degree of success would agree that the joint effort make the task easier. Working together we have witnessed the closing of clinics and helped mothers turn away from the door of abortionist. However, you must know that occasionally, during this football season the Cowboys quarterback, Tony Romo would throw a touchdown to Terrell Owens. But, one touchdown very seldom won the game. Having a few successes is good, but we want to win the game. We need to plan and develop together a national strategy in order to win the game.

As things are currently, the pro-life community is facing an incredible challenge. We are witnessing a rapid fire administration that seeks to establish laws, and executive orders that will set back all that we have accomplished over the years to keep the culture of death in check, and to slow down their programs of death.

The results of this presidential election have put us in a position of having to recalibrate our strategies and methods to stay in stride with a clever and subtle foe that slickly hisses, “no one is for abortion, only for a woman’s right to choose.” As we recalibrate a strategy to show how we will move our team over the next four years, let us take a lesson from the Cowboys and play this one out as a team.

The black pro-life movement is a natural ally in the struggle to end the scourge of baby murder in our country. We are being impacted by it at an alarming rate. Our contribution is to mobilize the black community and bring their collective voices to the table to speak out against this evil practice. Our voice when heard cannot be ignored or misrepresented as trying to besmirch the first black President. He is from our community and he most not ignore our cry to stop the killing of our children. When we collectively bring to the nation’s consciousness the horrors of baby killing in our communities and how it is practiced in unabated furor we will win the day. For the next four years, we need to play this one out as a team if we are to win!

Pastor Stephen Broden
Fair Park Bible Fellowship
Dallas, Texas

How Can I Celebrate Black History Month?

By Pastor Stephen Broden

Senior Pastor Fair Park Bible Fellowship 

Dallas, Texas

We are now well into the month that is celebrated as "black history month." Black communities across this nation will celebrate this month and with deep appreciation laud the first black President as the most significant event in our history. School's churches and other institutions in our community will speak of Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin King and many others who made extraordinary contributions to our nations history. However, there is a dark cloud that hangs over our community a specter of self destruction through the murder of our babies by the evil practice of abortion. It taints our community pride and cast disparagement on those who preceded us and the accomplishments they have achieved. The irony of our celebration this year is evident in recently published abortion statistics that indicate upwards to 1,500 black babies a day are murder in their mothers womb. While we as a community celebrate our past history in America it is increasingly clear our future is being systematically destroyed by a eugenic base philosophy targeted specifically towards black babies and black women.

Unfortunately during this months celebration little will be said about 14 million black babies thrown away by the bloody hands of abortionist since 1973. How can we laud our history and at the same time ignore a holocaustal scourge that is decimating the future of our existence? Perhaps a glimpse at the history of Maragret Sanger founder of Planned Parenthood and mother of the abortion industry in America will help us see reasons why. Maragret Sanger years ago implemented a plan called the "Negro Project" designed to control population in the black community. Sanger said "negroes are like weeds, we need to get rid of them" In a letter to one of her supporters she said "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population". These statements by Sanger reflect her eugenic belief in a superior race. In 1970, I. I. Gottesman, a director of the American Eugenics Society, defined the meaning of eugenics in this way: "The essence of evolution is natural selection; the essence of eugenics is the replacement of 'natural' selection by conscious, premeditated, or artificial selection in the hope of speeding up the evolution of 'desirable' characteristics andthe elimination of undesirable ones."

With the help of W.E. Dubuois and black pastors Sanger set in moment a eugenic plot of dysgenic' genocide in the black community. That plan is still at work today under the rubric of reproductive health and a "women right to choose." Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry because of laws and policies supported in all three branches of our government have had since 1973 unfettered access to our community to work their plan of depopulation. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg affirmed this idea in an interview in New York Times when she said, "Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe (1973) was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that WE don’t want to have too many of."

The irony of our celebration this month is also seen in the recent revelation of four black abortionist who were exposed on our nations public stage for atrocities perpetrated on black women and babies in California, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Maryland. In January of this year an indictment of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell for murder of seven late term babies and one of his female patience's in his Philadelphia clinic dominated internet news. Also, exposed in January were Nicole Riley in Maryland who through a botched abortion seriously injuring a woman by perforating the wall of her uterus pulling out part of her intestines, James Pendergraft, who runs an illegal late term abortion facility, and Andrew Rutland exposed for frightening women into agreeing to unnecessary hysterectomies, botching abortions, lying to patients, falsifying medical records, over-prescribing painkillers and having sex with patients. All four are black abortionist working for personal gain.

How can we celebrate our history in the light of this abortion scourge? BET television and other media outlets will present historical facts about how blacks contributed to our nations success in the days ahead, but I will find it difficult to celebrate knowing the ugly facts of abortions impact on black babies and black women. Our babies, children and women are exposed and victimized through the mantra and deceptive lie of "a woman right to choose" This mantra has led to an abortion scourge that is threaten our very survival.

Major media will not cover this story nor communicate the horror of abortion in the black community. But one must ask where are black print and electronic media? Why have they not covered this holocaust? Surely they are aware of the malady of abortion and its impacts! Could it be that they like Dubuois and other community leaders recruited in the twentieth century by Sanger are complicit in her eugenic plan to control black population? Where are the voices of our leaders? The Congressional Black Caucus is not to be trusted, they have voted unanimously to support Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry to refill their re-election coffers. Community activist like Sharpton, and Jackson have become apologist for abortion rights. Perhaps more disturbing is the silences of the black church and their shepherds to fight for babies and women in our communities.

So, I guess its up to "we the people" to engage in pushing back against the abortionist, and eugenists in order to protect our babies, our community, and our future. We must hold our elected officials, churches, and pastor accountable if they are to lead us, or get rid of them. Then and only then we will be able to celebrate our history, our future and our nation.