OPINION:
I am utterly amazed by the protests and violence perpetrated by some people over the recent grand jury decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. (“Legal scholars praise Ferguson grand jury for fairness beyond the norm,” Web, Nov. 25).
Since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, approximately 18 million black babies have been aborted. At least one-third of the black population is missing because of abortion. In 2007 an average of 1,000 black babies were aborted each day with little or no notice or protest from the public.
It seems to me that the death of a black person is only deemed important when it can be used to stir up racism. How can people see fit to create such protest over the death of one person while ignoring the murder of 18 million innocent, helpless unborn children?
ROBERT BOUDREAUX
Waldorf
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