By Raynard Jackson
Raynard
Jackson is founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF),
a federally registered 527 super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in
the Republican Party.
During the month of February in America we celebrate
Black History Month. As we celebrate the achievements of Blacks in the making
of this great country, I can’t help but think about the state of the Black
community in 2019.
The state of our Black union is depressing!
We, as a community, must stop asking others to do for us
what we should be doing for ourselves. We have more education than our parents
and grandparents; yet have a lower quality of life. We have more opportunities
than our parents and grandparents yet have less to show for them.
We have more Blacks in elected political offices than
ever before, yet our economic indices in cities run by Blacks are horrible,
i.e.: Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Atlanta to name a few.
Hardly a week passes by without a Black person having
some deadly encounter with law enforcement.
How did we, in the Black community, get to where it seems
to be open season on our people by law enforcement? Yes, racism still exists,
but racism is not the cause of the condition of our community.
According
to the Centers for Disease control and Prevention,
over 70% of Black babies are born to unwed mothers. It is estimated that since
the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in 1973, that over
16 million Black babies have been murdered — 55 million babies in total.
In New York City every year, more Black babies
are aborted than are born. Yes, you heard right. According to their Health
Department, between 2012 and 2016, 136,426 Black babies were aborted versus
118,127 babies born. Blacks are the only group in America that have more babies
aborted than born!
If Black lives matter, does that include their babies?
The solution to this culture of death in the Black
community specifically, and America in general, is very simple. We need to
reconstitute the family unit; meaning mother, father and children. These
perverted variations of the traditional family unit will not restore our
traditional values back to our community or our society.
Study after study has shown that if you graduate high
school, get married, and then have children, you are almost guaranteed not to
live in poverty.
The traditional family unit is the solution to all the
ills facing the Black community and America.
But yet, the media appointed Black leaders and their
radical liberal groups spend all of their time promoting homosexuality, amnesty
for illegals, and Planned Parenthood.
When have you ever heard the Congressional Black Caucus,
the NAACP, or the National Urban League talking about the traditional family
unit is key to righting the ship in the Black community?
When Bill Cosby gave his famous “Pound Cake” speech, he
was eviscerated by the Black liberal elites.
When have you ever heard Al Sharpton, President of the
National Action Network, Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP, or
Marc Morial, President of the National Urban League talk about the family unit;
or telling girls to keep their damn legs closed if they cannot financially
afford to care for a child?
How did the Black community allow the homosexuals to
hijack our fight for Civil Rights? Their issue has absolutely nothing to do
with Civil Rights.
How did we allow George Soros, Bill Gates, the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce and Mark Zuckerberg to get media-appointed Blacks to put
illegals ahead of their own community? Can you imagine willingly training
someone who is going to take your job and agreeing with them that they have
a right to take your job.
According to Planned Parenthood’s 2017 annual report,
they had total revenue of $1.3 billion, $555 million from the federal
government. They made a profit of $77 million. Yes, they get paid to kill.
They also have spent over $38 million in political
campaigns between 2012-2016. Yes, they buy Black, Democrat politicians!
To paraphrase Jay-Z, “Blacks folks got 99 problems, but
homosexuality, amnesty, and Planned Parenthood should not be one.”
We survived slavery, overcame segregation, and fought
discrimination and are still standing.
But, in order to restore the Black community, we must turn
away from the media-appointed Black leaders. They have sold us out at every
chance.
Just imagine if we put the same amount of energy fighting
for our own people and causes like we do for other groups.
Just imagine if we took the energy we put into hating
President Donald Trump and Republicans [put it] into getting young girls to
stop having babies before marriage; getting Black entertainers and athletes to
hire Black C.P.A.s, publicists, lawyers, managers, etc.; getting Black churches
to stop caving in to the radical homosexual agenda; and creating more Black
entrepreneurs.
We don’t need a law to make any of the above reality; but
what we do need is leaders who cannot be bought off by those who have no
concern for the Black community.
The state of our union can be brighter, but you can’t
have union without “u” “n” “i.”
Raynard Jackson is founder and chairman of
Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 super
PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF
focuses on the Black entrepreneur. For more information about BAFBF,
visit www.bafbf.org.
You can follow Raynard on Twitter @Raynard1223.
