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“Racist Abortion Ad Spark Debate”

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An anti-abortion billboard with racist overtones was erected at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Watts Street, three blocks from a Planned Parenthood Clinic, and across the street from a public employees union hall in SoHo, New York.

The ad has sparked outrage among blacks, which is exactly the intention of the marketing company that created this ad campaign.

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  8. I have been to that Planned Parenthood w/ a friend it is a cesspool for women wanting to terminate their pregnancies.

    What gets me is people complain about women wanting to abort and would rather the women keep the pregnancy. Then those women that decide to go through w/ the pregnancy (some go on public assistance) and now they get ridiculed by those same people that wanted them to not have an abortion. This time they are ridiculed because they need government assistance. I don’t get it they can’t have it both ways.

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  9. Its offensive but the stats on African Americans gettin abortions is WAYYYY more offensive. They have been talkin about this ad before it came out so its expected. Moral of the story close your legs if you cant handle the outcome

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    1. I agree. This is offensive…
      So, are they trying to say African Americans should kill themselves? African Americans refuse to take prenatal vitamins therefore our children are at risk? African Americans has the highest abortion rates? I’m not sure what they are trying to communicate to the masses.

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      1. This ad is very offensive. Black women are not the only women who have abortions. Plan parent Hood should be ashamed of themselves for green lighting an ad such as this one.

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  10. Its the truth! Stop acting all offended when its true. We live in a careless society where women think its okay to lay up and get pregnant to trap a sorry azz man then they birth more children and live off the government…

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  11. The most dangerous place for an African American is the womb and prison.

    Nobody raises children anymore they leave it up to the tv, magazines, blogs, and other bull shit….

    The most dangerous place is outside the womb to be raised by the world.

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    1. It’s not racist. They are just trying to bring awareness to the fact that abortions of African American women make up for over 35% of all abortions while we only only make up for 14% of women of childbearing age. Something is very wrong with those statistics.

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      2. I think every stereotype is born from something. Take responsibility for it. If your offended you have a right to be.

        I’d rather for women to learn to protect themselves and avoid government assistance and abortion but I doubt I get what I want.

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      3. @Mahogany: If that’s the case, why not print the statistics on the ad? Placing blanket statements on a huge billboard with a pretty chocolate baby on it and a message saying “the most dangerous place for an African American in th womb” is misleading. While there are other races that turn to terminating their pregnancy 2, why were WE chosen to place on the billboard (rhetorical question)?

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      5. Here’s what the actual website says:

        “New York, New York (Feb. 21, 2011) – A billboard that reads, “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb,” has been placed in the heart of SoHo by Life Always™ as a part of a new national campaign to expose the truth about how Planned Parenthood targets minority neighborhoods as they perform over 300,000 abortions a year. This particular billboard is about half a mile from a Planned Parenthood abortion facility. Life Always board member Stephen Broden said that Planned Parenthood has had a devastating effect on the sustainability of the African American population.”

        They also go on to say that “abortion is the number one killer since 1973 in the Black community..we must confront a city with a near 60 percent abortion rate for Black women….”

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      6. YVONNE because the stats on us gettin abortions is ALARMING and its placed by planned parenthood which when you walk in its a cheese line of us gettin abortions. The point is to get a rise and anger so that its being paid attention to. Now whether or not if this is the route that should have been taken I Dont Know however the stats has been out there for awhile and no one said a peep but I bet now people will pay attention.

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      7. What I got from this is that AA women are most likely to abort their children. Thus the reason for it being a dangerous place for African American women (the womb). Racist no, insensitive and slightly offensive YES! But a hit dog will always holler so… Wrap it up, and stop killing babies…

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      8. YALL I did read up on that and I believe its goin to be a state to state issue but the details are still being ironed out

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  14. Our abortion rates are high which was the intent of the person who started PP, Margaret Sanger. Her intention in encouraging abortion in the black and other minority communities was to help us rid the world of ourselves which she termed “undesirables”. You can look her up and PP to find out the history of the group and its ties to the AA community. Why should the truth offend?

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  17. The statistics in regards to the african american community in every aspect are quite alarming.

    This is a very blunt way to bring awareness to the problem…. But idk…at this point I don’t see any other way to bring change without pissing a few people off….

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    1. I get your point, female in genaral need to be more responsible when it comes to sex choose ur partners carefully and use protection at all times. But what about rape victims, should they choose to have a child from such tramatic event? Or someone who got pregnant on the pills or a broke condom should they have the child if they’re not ready?

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    2. People need to stop *FUCKING* unprotected if you can’t possibly see yourself having a kid with them….
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      AMEN.

      BC has been around for years and is readily available and free at any clinic. There is no reason for us having 1000s of children that people won’t care for and killing babies. I wish our “leaders” would address the lack of sexual responsibility that so many of us have. Children are not weeds or accidents of nature. They are precious. They shouldn’t just be created and/or aborted on a stupid whim and racing hormones. We have got to do better and be more responsible.

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    3. VICTIMS of any type is a very different situation than those who CHOOSE to have unprotected sex.

      There are ways to prevent pregnancy, if a night of pleasure ended with a broken condom then they have Morning after pills.

      If you are on BC and you used a condom and you still ended up pregnant… it was just meant to happen.

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  19. I am not a fan of stats (they can easily be manipulated) and I don’t believe the stats on AA abortion.

    Datlene/20/20 somebody did a special on abortion clinics yrs ago in the heartland and the clinics didn’t report numbers to protect the white housewives who were getting abortions cause they couldn’t “afford” another child. So not everybody at the clinic is un married.

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    1. DAISY I can agree to an extent as to what you are saying however when it comes to HEALTH and taking care of ourselves we fall behind and I know this first hand working in a health field for a number of years. When I did intern at a clinic AA woman was the number one race in there and that was disturbing.

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    2. Daisy, yes I was just about to say that the first thing I learned in Statistics is that you can pretty much get them to say whatever you want. African-Americans also have the highest teen pregnancy rates so what does that mean? People always throwing their agenda around but every case isn’t black and white. My stance is don’t tell people what to with their bodies if you want to be able to do what you want with yours. God is the only judge

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    3. I am not a fan of stats (they can easily be manipulated) and I don’t believe the stats on AA abortion.

      Datlene/20/20 somebody did a special on abortion clinics yrs ago in the heartland and the clinics didn’t report numbers to protect the white housewives who were getting abortions cause they couldn’t “afford” another child. So not everybody at the clinic is un married.

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      Very true. Leave it to the “whiteman” to run all the statistics and so on. I just learned that the “whiteman” (wrote) that Columbus founded America….. sure whiteman, sure…..

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    4. These stats are easily manipulated and they are just going by Planned Parenthood files. Didn’t stats say we have the highest rate of unwed teen births? How can both be true? As far as public clinics, these stats may be true but has anyone taken into consideration the stats of people who have private insurance? The private doctors do not have to divulge how many abortions they have done if they don’t want to. If they did, I bet people of the other persuasion stats would be much higher than this.

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    5. One clinic can have more blacks the next clinic more whites either way women have the right to do what they want w/their bodies.

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    7. As for the ad, don’t know if its racist as much as it offensive. I personally give stats the ? mark as well….They could of made their point in a better way….all they’ve done is tick people off.

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  20. There has to be a better way for awareness than this. And no way in hell would I allow my child’s face on a advertisement that’s surrounded by such controversy.

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  21. Planned Parenthood helped alot of people that I know not be a statistic by providing them with free birth control. Hence the name planned.

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  22. I believe they chose to make a statement that bold in order to provoke people who see it to want to learn more and try to figure out the reasoning behind them making that statement. I am for whatever drives people to want to inquire information, especially about a subject this important.

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  24. Blacks are not the only ones who get abortions. I don’t care if its higher than any other race. Everyone races gets them, so why just put blacks like we’re the only race that does it? Do you think this is going to stop people from having sex and getting abortions? Hell No.

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  26. Research the truth and educate yourselves. It kills me how people don’t want to address issues that affect them but get pissed when others point out the obvious.

    Some may be offended but I bet it woke they a*s up!

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  27. @TOPIC PLANT PARENTHOOD DOES MORE THAN ABORTIONS THE ADD IS RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    NOW WHAT WE TALKN BOUT??? BISH GOT AN HOUR LEFT BEFORE I HIT THE PICKN FIELD

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  28. I wish people would stop using abortion as birth control. Get on the pill, get your tubes tied, burnt and laminated or just stop sleeping around. Your body is a temple treat it that way…..Everytime you lay with someone you lose your spirit and pick up a peace of theirs….Something to think about!!! Did this child’s parents know that she would be on this ad? This is going to follow this child everywhere……people are going to say, “hey there’s the abortion girl.” This is not going to be cute.

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    9. Good morning Fam.
      This ad is just another insult to blacks, just like other public insults toward “nappy headed hoes” “black butts” etc. is becoming common in the media.

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  30. The reasons and the logic behind why a woman decides to terminate her pregnancy is absolutely none of my business as it’s a personal choice. This may sound extremely cruel however when it comes down to it, I would much rather people terminate their pregnanies vs raising children they don’t want and allowing my taxes to assist in rearing these children.

    The intent of this billboard was to catch my attention. Ok, you’ve got it. Now what? What’s the next step? Is Planned Parenthood going to the schools and community centers talking to adolescents about how to PREVENT pregnancy? Are they teaching the women who have visited the clinic to terminate their pregnancies how NOT to become repeat offenders?

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    2. @ Yvonne –> I COSIGN

      And everyone knows the world is filled with hypocrites. Some religions don’t believe in birth control. I mean I have several catholic friends who won’t take BC but will have premarital sex, get preggo, abort or keep the baby, whatever they feel like but pretend that the issue isn’t that they just think they can have sex with no repercussions…..

      But your choice is just that, your choice, until you get on welfare, then everyone has to pay for it.

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      1. Let’s not muddy the issue by dragging in the 1 or 2 women out of 100 who got pregnant and wanted an abortion due to rape. They are a whole nother issue.

        My comments is directed at the 98 or 99 out of 100 who use abortion as birth control and have unprotected sex as if they didn’t learn in MIDDLE SCHOOL OR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL that unprotected sex causes pregnancy! Even if a woman is a total idiot, who doesn’t know that unprotected sex causes pregnancy! I’m tired of the excuses. I personally know a man who has 9 children by 9 DIFFERENT women!! This kind of behavior is LUDICROUS. We either need to wrap it up, tie it up, cauterize it, give it a pill, an IUD, or be abstinent. PERIOD.

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    3. Well hell, I don’t have sex, so whatever people wanna do, they’re going to do it whether people like it or not. Do you think they care if they’re using our tax money to take care of their kids? Hell no.

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    4. According to the site, the average fee for an abortion is $625 which averages roughly $190 million in revenue a year (based on the 305,310 abortions performed in 2007). How much money would it cost the taxpayers to raise these same 305,310 children over the next 18 years??

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    5. @Yvonne
      Planned Parenthood is not responsible for placing these billboards up, it’s an agency that’s against abortions doing this in the effort to bring PP down so that they no longer receive federal funding. The campaign has been going on for a while now. They had the same ad with a young black boy on it in Texas a few months back; only difference they’re not sugar coating it anymore by leaving out the words “African American.”

      It’s a shame, they are doing all within their republican power to rob the poor; even send fake pimps into the clinics to try and catch them in wrong doing; just the same way they did ACORN.

      Bottom line abortion is a choice and women have the right to it regardless if others don’t agree.

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  31. WOW; I think they could have made a statement in a different way. This does not always go for African Americans. Other races have issues as well.

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  32. I HATE TALKNG BOUT ABORTION IT’S SOMETHING I DON’T AGREE WITH BUT ALMOST MADE THE MISTAKE HITS HOME SO THIS SUBJECT I WILL LEAVE ALONE…..

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  34. What people NEED to be mad about is that your 14 year old daughter could’nt come to you about sex, and ended up pregnant.

    People NEED to be mad that you’re child is experimenting with sex and you’re oblivious!

    Be mad that we as a people get mad at the obvious being thrown in our faces, but we continuously ignore that same obvious… #DoBetter

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    1. @PINKY
      some parents talk to their teens/kids until they are blue in the face about safe sex/come to me if you are ready to get on the pill, etc.
      hell one mother on teen mom gave her daughter condoms and she didn’t use them so teen prg isn’t always due to a lack of parenting and sex education

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    1. @ Man, if you can’t understand why 9 children with 9 women is not good behavior, then there is absolutely no point in discussing this topic with you.

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      3. You got it when you stated your “bottom line.” Can’t MAKE someone responsible for someone else.

        The state shouldn’t be a “collection agency” for someone that got knocked up.

        Supporting your citizen’s is a government’s JOB. PERIOD. Why do you think Social Security was enacted? (which you’ll never here a politician in their right mind have anything negative to say about)

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  36. What is missing from many of these “pro” and “con” abortion convos is the emotional toll abortions take on many women. We can scream, “It’s my body” all we want, but it’s not our body being ripped out of its protective home and being placed in some trash bag (or wherever the remains go) and discarded. The womb should be a safe place. That, to me, is why God made it. It’s a place of safety and nurturing. We carry these precious lives, our DNA, and legacy inside of us. The aftermath of abortions have wrecked havoc on many women (I know this for a fact).

    I’m not going to tell someone what they can or can’t do (especially in cases of rape or incest) because God gives us free will, but I do know that abortion is not always cut and dry.

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  37. This just pissed me off but I’m going to keep my mouth shut on a couple of comments I just read for various reasons.

    1) Those bullshit azz statistics numbers DO lie and they DON’T report numbers from private practices where people with good insurance/private docs go to have the procedures.

    2) If AA abortions make up 35% of the total- somebody tell me where the fuck the other 65% comes from and why dont they have a big azzed billboard for that shit?!

    3) I’m pro-choice and ya’ll cant have it both ways. Either you want people to have 50-11 kids and continue to be on govt assistance or you dont castrate them when they decide to deal with it in other ways. You cant turn your nose up at both outcomes.

    4) People don’t just get pregnant from opening their legs all frelly, jackazzes. Some people get raped, molested, birth control fails and don’t even get me started.

    I’m going to start a damn billboard campaign:

    “Dangerous Places for White children”
    – In any old man’s house with a freezer in the basement as they tend to store them and eat them

    – Any High School in Colorado cause those fools will come strapped

    – With their parents as they have a tendency to blow their damn heads off while their doing homework & on the drive home from school

    – In a bathtub as their mothers tend to frequently drown them

    – Near family members if in the backwoods because they inbreed….a lot!

    – In a foreign country slutting around with the locals with no supervision as they tend to come up missing.

    NOW! How bout THEM grapes?!

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    2. This just pissed me off but I’m going to keep my mouth shut on a couple of comments I just read for various reasons.

      1) Those bullshit azz statistics numbers DO lie and they DON’T report numbers from private practices where people with good insurance/private docs go to have the procedures.

      2) If AA abortions make up 35% of the total- somebody tell me where the fuck the other 65% comes from and why dont they have a big azzed billboard for that shit?!

      3) I’m pro-choice and ya’ll cant have it both ways. Either you want people to have 50-11 kids and continue to be on govt assistance or you dont castrate them when they decide to deal with it in other ways. You cant turn your nose up at both outcomes.

      4) People don’t just get pregnant from opening their legs all frelly, jackazzes. Some people get raped, molested, birth control fails and don’t even get me started.

      I’m going to start a damn billboard campaign:

      “Dangerous Places for White children”
      – In any old man’s house with a freezer in the basement as they tend to store them and eat them

      – Any High School in Colorado cause those fools will come strapped

      – With their parents as they have a tendency to blow their damn heads off while their doing homework & on the drive home from school

      – In a bathtub as their mothers tend to frequently drown them

      – Near family members if in the backwoods because they inbreed….a lot!

      – In a foreign country slutting around with the locals with no supervision as they tend to come up missing.

      NOW! How bout THEM grapes?!
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      🙂 LMAO & *Dead!!!!!

      ALL DIS SHIT SO TRUE!

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    3. “Dangerous Places for White children”

      IN THEY WHITE MAMA CAR HEADED TO THE LAAAKKEE BISH FORGOT TO PUMP THE BREAKS BUT GOT HER AZZ OUT!! LET THEM BABYS DROWN!!

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      1. @ACE

        I already included “COLUMBINE” in my mini-dissertation above. Don’t be afraid- say that sh*t!

        COLUMBINE!!!! Can’t even send my kids to school with those crazy muhfukkas cause they got a damn arsenal big enough to take out the Russian Mafia in their parent’s garage but their parents don’t know because that’s “Timothy’s” space.

        Oh! Oh!

        Let’s not forget Timothy McVeigh!

        Another “Dangerous Place for White Children”

        -Apparently- the daycare center of any gov’t building in Oklahoma.

        This damn ad just ruffled my feathers!

        WHERE THE FUKK DOES THAT OTHER 65% COME FROM THEN, DAMMIT!!

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    11. @ STARR

      I can totally see where you’re coming from but closed minds don’t get fed. Besides, too much pissed-offness gives you wrinkles.

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  38. I recently watched a documentary on planned parenthood…and from the beginning it TARGETED AFRICAN AMERICANS! it was their goal from the beginning..stop effing around black people, wrap it up and stop complaining. More black women get abortions than any other race! appalling!!!!

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  39. I’m not pro or anti I just know how to be responsible and not make choices that will result in life altering changes.

    I do know that we are more comfortable blaming other people instead of holding ourselves accountable.

    This issue won’t even be important after while as the homosexual trend has taken over children now days. They don’t offer sex ed in school yet they offer social groups on homosexuality.

    The most dangerous place for anyone, black, white, latino is to be without an education. Remember the saying “the more you know, the more you grow” It’s still true.

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  40. This is being used to discredit PP. Didn’t they already lose funding?

    The message that I get from this ad is that PP doesn’t work. They allow AA to get free abortions. Let’s end PP.

    But then what? No bc? More unwanted pregnancies? Less abortions?

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  41. Thoughts, suggestions and ideas that belong to other people cannot affect you, unless you allow it to. Thats thier opinion… clearly, they’re not talking about my womb… I have 2 beautiful kids, and my womb was pretty damn safe for them… just ask them

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  42. Its time for sex education to be discussed in our schools and in our living rooms. I am not a parent but I don’t want my nieces and/or nephews looking at a billboard for input on how we should live our lives. My sisters and I answer ANY questions that our ‘KIDS’ may have on the sex subject. My family is GOOD, but you know it takes a village…..

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  43. What about that porn star that was with charlie sheen. She had an abortion faster than she conceived with no qualms about it. Where are the abortion statistics for that profession?

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  44. SO WE RANK THE HIGHEST IN UNWANTED/TEEN PREGNANCIES AND ABORTIONS?!?!?

    WHATEVA-STATISTICS CAN BE MANIPULATED TO REFLECT WHATEVER THE PERSON WANTS THE PUBLIC TO BELIEVE

    HEALTH CARE/SERVICES RECEIVED BY PARTICIPANTS ON GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE IS EASILY TRACKED FOR FUNDING PURPOSES-I HIGHLY DOUBT ANYONE HAS AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF HOW MANY BECKY’S PAID CASH FOR THEIR ABORTIONS OR THE DR’S WHO POCKETED THE MONEY AND KEPT IT CONFIDENTIAL, HENCE THE STAGGERING DIFFERENCE IN STATISTICS-VIOLA!!!!!! DUH

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  46. Advertisers love to use light skinned, biracial, mixed people with curly hair to represent the black race in their TV commercials. But they use a child with nappy hair in this billboard campaign.

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  47. The only thing I have to say about this is: What ever the negative side of a statistic is we are sure to be told we are doing the worse (whether it’s true or not) and if by sheer “luck” we are doing something good we will here about that stat one time and it will never be widely broadcast or acknowledged

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  48. Hello All. This is a very hard, very, very hard subject to comment on. First of all, speaking of stats, black Americans head almost EVERY negative list ever compiled: new HIV/AIDS cases, obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, unemployment, teen pregnancies, high school dropout rate, men in prison. I’m sure I’ve left out a few maladies, like abortion rates. We have to face the music: it’s the choices that we make in life. Take a good, long look at this list, ALL involve choices. Hmmmmm, abortion, boy, now that’s a tough pill, a real tough decision but I’m pro-choice. Like I tell the young gals, keep yo legs closed or use protection cause many will get pregnant the VERY first time they have sex, maybe after just a minute of sex. It only takes one sperm out of millions. Is it worth it? Peace.

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  49. It is slightly racist but it got people talking about their cause/views so they have reached their aim and I bet they are ecstatic by all the attention they are getting. Even if it’s for all the wrong reasons..

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  50. One of my girlfriends from Chicago sent me a pic of the same damn billboard…..Im guessing it will stay up because we will not fight to remove it.

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