Republicans in Mississippi sink low to defend their racism, calling abortion 'black genocide'
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Republicans in Mississippi are unapologetically showing their racism this week. First, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith made a deplorable comment about happily attending a “public hanging” that she refuses to apologize for—a racist and insensitive remark thaRepublicans in Mississippi sink low to defend their racism, calling abortion 'black genocide'
Republicans in Mississippi are unapologetically showing their racism this week. First, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith made a deplorable comment about happily attending a “public hanging” that she refuses to apologize for—a racist and insensitive remark that conveniently makes light of Mississippi’s terrible and long history of lynching black people. Then Gov. Phil Bryant went out of his way to defend Hyde-Smith for her comment, deflecting its harmful impact with a bizarre, inappropriate lie about abortion and black children. According to Think Progress, Bryant said the following in a press conference: “Absolutely we have been sensitive to race relations in this state,” said Bryant, who fielded questions for Hyde-Smith during a press conference and physically stood in front of her, serving both as a literal and metaphorical shield. “Today, I talked about the genocide of over 20 million African American children. See, in my heart, I am confused about where the outrage is at about 20 million African American children that have been aborted.” So according to Bryant, what black people should actually be upset about is not lynching or actual white supremacy but instead about the millions upon millions of tragically aborted black babies that conservatives are so terribly concerned about. Spare us, Phil. To be clear, this is an outright lie. There is no data that suggests that this number is real. But it is a common myth among anti-choice activists who love to paint black women as a problem and the ultimate challenge to their pro-life movement. What’s laughable is that these folks are pretending that they are so concerned about black life—even though they do nothing but make it hard for black people at every turn. They don’t care about black babies inside or outside of the womb and we truly know that since they often want to cut funding for needy families and Headstart programs and are the exact same people who don’t want to fund schools that are attended by poor black children. They hate affirmative action, they don’t want black women to have access to reproductive care or health care at all but somehow we are supposed to believe that they revere black babies. Yeah, okay. We aren’t buying it. Their policies and actions speak volumes and show us who they don’t actually care about. Read more