OMG! Racist Gov of Mississippi defends Hyde-Smith - calls black abortions "Black Genocide"

[womanofthehills]

Governor Calls Abortion ‘Black Genocide,’ Defends Hyde-Smith on ‘Hanging’ Tape


JACKSON — As state and national controversy swirls around U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s comment about a “public hanging” in her race against an African American opponent, Gov. Phil Bryant opened a press conference this morning implying that black women are participating in “the genocide of 20 million African American children” through legal abortions.

“See, in my heart, I am confused about where the outrage is at about 20 million African American children that have been aborted. No one wants to say anything about that. No one wants to talk about that,” Bryant said, with Hyde-Smith and National Right to Life President Carol Tobias standing nearby.

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It is absurd that a governor in a state that has one of the worst maternal and infant mortality rates in the country, where it is one of the most dangerous places for women to give birth—black women to give birth, specifically—would talk about abortion being black genocide,” Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund Executive Director Laurie Bertram-Roberts said today.



“First of all, black women are not committing genocide when the same women he’s talking about are the mothers of black children,” she said. “To commit genocide, you have to be trying to eliminate a race of people. By definition, that cannot be black mothers. The majority of women who have abortions are also mothers. … Number two, Phil Bryant has never made a policy or endorsed a policy that helps black babies in this state.”

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/nov/12/governor-calls-abortion-black-genocide-defends-hyd/

[Basement Beat]

1. Why the hell do these knuckledraggers despise black people so much??

I just don't get it. I don't understand it. But it just infuriates me to no end.
And these same people are entrusted to fulfill the needs of ALL of us.

[nycbos]

3. As LBJ said...

... "If you can convince the lowest white man he is better than the best colored man he won't notice you picking his pockets."

[BumRushDaShow]

4. During slavery times

when a slave was sold to Mississippi, they were sent to the worst of the worst states for slaves. At one point in history, slaves outnumbered whites there and even today, the state is 38% black.

[Blue_true]

7. Slaves outnumbered whites throughout the confederacy.

The 3|5 of a person rule was used by slave owners to increase their state populations for representation in Congress. When slaves were freed, whites went into suppression mode because they were so outnumbered. A lot of ex slaves made their way to the more populated industrial North, reducing the population of Blacks in southern states.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Yup

which is why during Reconstruction, you had so many in elected office... And then Jim Crow came and put an end to that... quick, fast, and in a hurry.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Also wants front row seat at an abortion.

[dembotoz]

5. Right to lie doing what they do ...lie

[gratuitous]

6. "I am confused about where the outrage is" over women controlling their own bodies

There, Gov. Bryant. I fixed it for you.

But keep it up, Mississippi Republicans. You're playing a very old, very tired game, and we've seen it all before. We're ready this time, and it's just possible that the people of Mississippi have had enough of you. We're going to find out just how nakedly racist folks there are.

[coconut22]

9. So black lives matter now?

[struggle4progress]

10. "We interrupt this Right to Life Conference to bring you an important message from our sponsor

about the entertainment value of public hangings!"

[keithbvadu2]

11. What does he call lynching?

[oasis]

12. That a boy Gov., get em fired up. nt