OPINION:
Black History Month is a good time to remind people that Democrats professed an apparent contradiction as they seceded to begin the Civil War. They demanded protection for slavery and the right to take their “peculiar property” into the territories. They demanded to be able to trade their “property” across state lines and demanded that states enforce the Fugitive Slave Law. Yet during prior and final congressional debates and on their constitution, southerners joined the near-universal condemnation of international slave trading.
Over 150 years later, the Black community provides voting plurality to the Democratic Party and adopts its “pro-choice” sacrament of abortion. According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 2019 Black women accounted for about 38% of abortions, though Black people constituted about 14% of the total population. Applying antebellum population growth to the period after the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 would mean 91 million Black people instead of the 47 million currently living.
So what benefits accrue for Black communities providing the Democratic Party 90% of their voting support?
NOLAN NELSON
Redmond, Ore.
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