The New Civil Rights Movement
Category: General Announcements
There are hinge points of history, times when in order for God to make a way, His people have to be His feet. This was one of them.
Ten thousand marchers—twenty thousand feet—pounded the pavement of Houston, Texas on Martin Luther King Day. Why were we marching? To challenge the establishment of the largest abortion clinic in the western hemisphere, being built right in the middle of the predominantly Hispanic and African-American neighborhoods of South Houston.
Young, old, red, yellow, black, white, and brown linked arms to protest racial genocide of those who could not march for themselves—the unborn children of the nation. Our faces, arms, and legs were plastered with the poster boards of God’s mark for this new civil rights movement—red LIFE tape. We were proudly bi-lingual, with many wearing the Spanish version of this cry for freedom, liberty, and justice –VIDA.
It should not be surprising that the clinic is being developed in the southern part of the city, as opposed to the predominantly white, northern part of Houston. Here, the poor are more easily preyed upon in their desperation. Here, there would not have been the celebration of the legacy of a Martin Luther King, Jr., but of the eugenics of Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger.
One has only to read her writings such as, “The Negro Project”, to know that she targeted ethnicities other than the white race for genocide. Her legacy harkens back to the time of a strong eugenics movement in the United States – the one from which Hitler claimed to have learned about the elimination of the unfit, as many states had their own eugenics programs.
Singing rang out from our ranks as an African-American bishop’s strong baritone voice echoed a cry from past generations - “We shall overcome one day.” The second verse increased in intensity – “God will make a way someday!”
Somehow it seemed as if Dr. King and other civil rights leaders were looking over the grand balcony of heaven and smiling down upon us. As one African-American leader so eloquently told the rally, “Fifty plus million babies that have been aborted make up that great cloud of witnesses as well.”
Dr. King understood targeted racial discrimination, but I wonder how he would feel about the appalling recent statistics concerning abortion in the African-American community. Because of the alarming amount of African-American babies being aborted each day, the black community is the only U.S. minority group that actually is decreasing in numbers.
This march was not the first assault during the building of this “abortion super-center”. About nine months earlier, in April 2009, a young Latina, Laura Zavala Allred, along with Doug Stringer of Somebody Cares Ministries, led a “silent siege” of the abortion clinic construction site, with about 300 other Christians. They stood around the site with red LIFE tape on their mouths while praying and asking God to keep the center from opening.
Laura called Lou Engle about the clinic, and he issued a Call to Conscience. Now thousands were responding to the six-story abortuary, with one floor dedicated to late-term abortions. Tony Perkins, of the Family Research Council, says the building looks like a giant cash register. Those who have researched these clinics and know the millions of dollars that are made through the killing of innocent babies see the architecture as revealing.
