People much smarter than me have word it better than I ever could.
In is letter regarding Barak Obama at Notre Dame (posted on American Papist), Charles F. Lennon Jr. Executive Director, Notre Dame Alumni Association writes:
Rather, the University has invited the President to campus for what he’s done for racial equality, and for his stands on poverty, health care, immigration, education, infectious disease, and seeking peace. These are causes dear to the heart of Notre Dame, and he has elevated these causes and made them his own.
Sigh. As stated on Jill Stanek:
African-Americans comprise 12% of the US population but disproportionately 32% of all abortions, according to Guttmacher. PP’s founder, Margaret Sanger, was an anti-black eugenicist. Most abortion mills are located where the majority of blacks live, in metropolitan areas (87.5% – see Cenus Figure 2). According to Guttmacher, 95% of all mills are located in metropolitan areas.
Oddly, pro-life black Catholics don’t seem to agree with Mr. Lennon. On Twitter, Alan Keyes tweets:
Obama’s moral stature comes from exploiting race, yet his pro-abortion stance repudiates the black American heritage.
Yesterday, Matt C. Abbott of RenewAmerica has a letter from Fr. John J. Raphael, SSJ:
‘I have spent eighteen years working with blacks and whites, Protestants and Catholics, to bring more African Americans into the pro-life movement. During the last two months the Obama administration has already begun to aggressively roll back the gains made in defense of life over the course of the last fifteen years.
‘I have written two articles which attempt to show how the historical significance of the first African American president is emptied of its meaning if this same president refuses to embrace the rights of the unborn. I share them with you if you are interested in considering the devastating impact of these pro-abortion policies on the African American community in light of this historic election:
http://www.nbccongress.org/features/bridge-01.asp
http://clarionherald.org/pdfs/2009/02_07_09/page15.pdf.
‘As an African American and a priest, as a principal of a Catholic high school and a member of the Admissions Advisory Board of the university, I cannot adequately express in words how deeply this action offends those who are committed to carrying out the task of Catholic education and witnessing to the Gospel of Life in the context of a Catholic school. Even if the university chooses to cooperate with certain policies of the president that are not contrary to the teaching of the faith, the conferral of this type of public honor is wholly gratuitous and incongruous with the mission of any Catholic institution…
more…
If we really want to address the race issue, let’s address it in it’s fullness. If not, then you are just using the fact that Obama’s blackness as an excuse to pat yourself on the back for appearing so hip-which is pretty racist.
HT:Jill Stanek