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Reflections from the Rally

Day Gardner — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:21:16 +0000

By Day Gardner

I can’t explain what I felt as I watched Dr. Alveda King bounding down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial steps to deliver her speech, “I Too, Have a Dream.”

In the moments before I was introduced, I was taken back 47 years to when I was eight years old. I remember that day vividly–sitting on the floor, my back leaning against my father’s chair. My eyes were glued to the television. Dr. Martin Luther King had become my hero, he was a deliverer. Even then, my parents seemed worried about his future–would someone try to silence this man of God? Unfortunately, it did happen –we all lost him.

Eventually, it became evident we had to strive to make “the dream” a reality so that Dr. King’s death would not be in vain. We became energized for a few seasons, I think. The world was changing and black Americans knew that if they stayed the course–they might just get there. Many of the Black clergy awkwardly stepped forward in an attempt to fill the void left by Dr. King and his murdered brother Rev. A.D. King; but it never happened.

The Reverend Jesse Jackson tried and was believable for awhile as his star began to rise with “I am somebody” and his powerful writings against abortion.

More and more black ministers wanted the adulation Dr. King had, as they all vied for his coveted “leadership” role.

Growing up, I was saddened to see them drop like flies–becoming sell-outs to immorality. Sidelining their worship of God, many chose power, greed and money instead. Men of God became less and less Godly–some became God-less.

Jesse Jackson, the once adamant supporter of all children born and unborn–switched tracks to board the abortion train. That train has brutally killed more than 50 million children since 1973–more than 17 million black children. He became part of America’s downfall.

On August 28, 2010, the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s historical speech, I find myself standing beside his niece, Dr. Alveda King as she delivered her amazing speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. My eyes welled–a lump formed–this is what her uncle saw! Looking out over the mall into thousands and thousands of faces, Alveda, my black brothers and sisters and I stood in solidarity–in unity. From the Lincoln Memorial, past the Washington Monument, as far as the eye could see in any direction, American people of all colors stood shoulder to shoulder to honor the one true God–to show love for our great country, a country founded on the Solid Rock which is the word of God–to fix the places where we are broken–to help the weathered masses–to see the humanity of unborn children–to heal the terrible hurts–to lift each other up and to never stand down until the “dream” is restored and…I was there.

National Black Pro-Life Union’s Day Gardner to Join Glenn Beck’s August 28th Rally

Day Gardner — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:33:51 +0000

On the 47th anniversary of the March on Washington, Glenn Beck will lead a rally called “Restoring Honor” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the very same place where the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech.

I wouldn’t miss it for the world, said Day Gardner, President of the National Black Pro-Life Union. America is spiraling down into an abyss of debt, joblessness and economic turmoil. We are seeing the institution of marriage attacked, schools pushing sex education to children as young as five years old and a great push to continue the brutal killing of unborn children–even as modern technology proves the humanity of the child.

Americans are admonished to be careful not to offend Muslims and people of other religions yet are expected to be silent when Christianity and the name of Jesus is scourged and blasphemed.

We can either stand by and say nothing–do nothing or we can stand up and say we’ve had enough!

I will stand with my sister Alveda King, Glenn Beck and a multitude of fellow Americans who uphold our nation’s founding principles of integrity, truth and honor.

I am an American who happens to be black and I will stand because I love this country–and the one true GOD who blessed it.

To Kill A Mocking Bird…

Day Gardner — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:42:07 +0000

By Day Gardner

Today in America, we all would like to believe racism no longer exists, but that is just not the case.That fact is most evident to me every night when I turn on the evening news and hear the stories, night after night after night, about beautiful 2-year-old or 5-year-old little white girls either missing or brutally murdered. My heart breaks and aches for them and their families — beautiful children! Yet I know little black girls have disappeared or died the same horrible, tragic deaths — and the media silence regarding them is deafening!

In America, we subconsciously devalue black babies. We are tricked into thinking a black child has less value than a child of another race.

Though U.S. law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race in various contexts, including employment, education and housing, black babies are still openly targeted and discriminated against.

Where’s the proof? It’s right in front of our faces. In recent YouTube videos there were several instances where Planned Parenthood representatives were willing to accept racist donations, even to the point of being “excited” at the possibility of taking money specifically earmarked to kill a black baby.

Planned Parenthood’s eager acceptance of these donations reflect the racist and eugenic principles of its founder, Margaret Sanger. This business mainly profits from the large number of abortions it provides — 37 percent of those abortions are performed on black women. Black America needs to face reality. We need to understand what this business is really all about.

Many pro-life people refer to abortion as genocide. You may agree or disagree. Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group defined by the exterminators as undesirable. It could be a racial, religious group, cultural, ethnic, or some other distinct group.

Most people find it easy to understand what genocide is as it relates to the Holocaust. To justify that genocide, Adolf Hitler and his followers did their very best to make whole races of people appear less than human. The targeted groups were deemed “undesirables” and “subhumans,” which made it easier for Hitler to carry out the killing of millions of people.

Today, the abortion industry would have all of us believe that unborn children are less than human. They make sure to only refer to these children as fetuses or embryos. They use these words to dehumanize the child. Planned Parenthood views the killing of innocent preborn babies, especially those who are black, in a very similar way. Most abortionists and abortion providers insist the child in the womb is not yet fully human. They want women and girls who walk through an abortionist’s doors to believe the child they are killing is not yet a child — as Hitler believed, it was “easier” to kill that which was not fully human.

Abortion hurts women and inflicts a horrendous and brutal death on the children. If we were talking about animals all of Hollywood and the rest of the nation would demand an immediate halt to the killing. But we’re not talking about defenseless animals here — only defenseless children.

Today, for every black baby born, another black baby is killed by abortion. Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion chain. It has planted its clinics strategically in our urban and minority neighborhoods. This is no accident!

The Alan Guttmacher Institute and with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that a huge majority (experts estimate more than 75 percent) of abortion clinics are located in minority neighborhoods.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider. It raked in $1 billion last year, including more than $350 million in taxpayer funds. That’s right. Tax dollars, in part, fund an organization that gets excited about taking donations earmarked to abort black babies.

Last year, thousands of Americans lost their homes due to foreclosed loans. Many homes could have been saved with $350 million. Many of our schools, especially inner city schools, are in shambles; $350 million could have paid for more teachers, and computers and other school supplies.

We have men, women, children, and entire families living on the street. I’ve seen them, you’ve seen them — fellow Americans, destitute and homeless. And $350 million could have provided many of them housing and shelter.

Taxpayer dollars spent to support the racist agenda of Planned Parenthood could have been spent in various other ways to support and protect people in need — the homeless, elderly and unborn. Why are we forced to give our tax dollars to a racist organization that was founded to limit the numbers of Negroes in America?

For too long, our black leaders have walked with blinders on — we have ignored the screams and tears of our children being ripped from the womb. We have been guilty of looking the other way while our children were targeted for death.

But we are coming together and we realize abortion will not go away until we bring this travesty out into the light and act to protect the very lives being disregarded. The hateful agenda of Planned Parenthood must be stopped, and we as a society must not sit by and allow children to be killed.

Those of us who serve God acknowledge we are all made in his image. For us, blessed is the fruit of the womb. If God says children are a reward, a gift and our heritage, then we must uphold that all children are greatly valuable and desirable, indeed.

Please, Google Missing Black Children.

Day Gardner is president of the National Black Pro-life Union.

Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King and Day Gardner, President of National Black Pro-Life Union, speak out against pro-abortion language in proposed constitution of Kenya

Day Gardner — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:20:10 +0000

July 25, 2010

Dr. Alveda King
Coordinator of African American Outreach, Priests for Life
www.priestsforlife.org/africanamerican

Day Gardner
President, National Black Pro-Life Union
www.nationalblackprolifeunion.com

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Email: dgardner@NBPLU.com

Washington, DC — The world is watching Kenya. A vote will occur soon on a new Constitution for this great African nation.

While we are encouraged by the broad support among the Kenyan people for a Constitution that will serve to protect human dignity and the rule of law, we write to express our grave concerns over the proposed Constitution’s support for what amounts to a right to abortion-on-demand.

We have seen the devastation of abortion within the African American community in the United States and we hope to prevent it from being repeated in Kenya. Abortion brutally kills children and is devastating to women.

It is our hope that our brothers and sisters in Kenya will uphold their pro-life convictions with regard to the proposed Constitution. Don’t be swayed by misinformation. Here are the facts:

The Bill of Rights section of the proposed Constitution begins with Article 26, entitled “Right to Life.” Although Article 26 recognizes that “[e]very person has the right to life” which “begins at conception,” it declares that abortion is permitted whenever a “trained health professional” believes that “there is need for emergency treatment, or the life or health of the mother is in danger.”

Article 26 also allows for abortion as “permitted by any other written law.” In addition, Article 43 of the proposed Constitution declares that “[e]very person has the right . . . to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes the right to health care services, including reproductive health care.”

These provisions of the proposed Constitution open the door to abortion on demand. The vast majority of abortions that occur worldwide are not necessary to save the mother’s life or to prevent a serious health risk, but are sought for economic or social reasons or due to a mere desire to not bear a child. Permitting abortions to take place any time that one “trained health professional” says that the “health of the mother is in danger” poses little, to any, practical limitations on an unrestricted right to abortion.

Most pregnancies increase or create some health risk to the mother, or have the potential to do so, such that a trained health professional could claim that a mother’s health would be at less risk if the pregnancy ended prematurely through an abortion. Even in the absence of any physical health risks or potential risks, a trained health professional could declare that a woman’s mental or emotional health could be improved by terminating a pregnancy early through an abortion. Unfortunately, Article 26’s praiseworthy declaration of a right to life that begins at conception will be rendered meaningless in practice by the broad language permitting abortions to occur.

In addition, Article 43’s statement that “[e]very person has the right . . . to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes the right to health care services, including reproductive health care,” will likely be used as a weapon to fight against any laws seeking to restrict the broad abortion rights created by Article 26. While maintaining the health of all Kenyans is certainly a laudable goal, that goal should not become a justification for recognizing broad abortion rights. A claim of marginal or non-existent physical, mental, or emotional health benefits for the mother should not justify the brutal, inhumane taking of the life of her unborn child.

We are not alone in our concerns. We know that many Kenyans desire a constitutional framework that protects the fundamental human rights of all Kenyans - including the unborn.

Yes, there are many good things about the proposed Constitution, but clearing the way for abortion-on-demand sends the wrong signal to a world where abortion is far too prevalent.

Dr. Alveda King is the niece of the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and daughter of Rev. A.D. King; Day Gardner is President of the National Black Pro-Life Union and Associate Director of the National Pro Life Center on Capitol Hill.

Once Again the NAACP Gets it Wrong Says Day Gardner, National Black Pro-Life Union

Day Gardner — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:55:08 +0000

Recently, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People voted to repudiate racist elements within the Tea Party Movement.

Surely, Benjamin Todd Jealous the 17th President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP knows (as we all do) that there will always be a few nutty people out there who live on the fringes of every organization including both the Democratic and Republican parties. For the NAACP to actually take the time and energy at their national convention to focus on what a few people may or may not have said to a few other people is totally ridiculous!

So it begs the question…why would Mr. Jealous speak out so adamantly in opposition to the Tea Party Movement now?

I think there are a few reasons. First of all, I think the racism thing is just a thin, wispy smoke screen used in an effort to conceal the fact that there is a huge concern throughout the United States about the policies of President Obama. Many Americans feel like I do—that the Obama administration is clueless—failing and even ruining our country.

Secondly, this is also an election year and many Tea Party endorsed candidates are not only winning primaries—some are favored to win at the polls in November.

Enter Mr. Jealous. Even though the NAACP is supposed to be non-partisan, they are obviously and continually nestled in the pocket of the liberal Democratic Party.

If anyone dares to oppose President Obama on anything at all—like the big bailouts, the trillion dollar debt amassed since he took office, joblessness, forced Obamacare or the fact that he supports using our hard earned tax dollars to kill unborn children by abortion—they risk being labeled racists.

The TEA Party movement is not about race–it actually transcends race. Tea Partiers are young, old, black, white and in between. They are disappointed, angry and just plain sick and tired of the downward spiral of the United States–especially since Obama took office. Many have decided to join in Tea Party rallies all over the country to show support for upholding the U.S. Constitution—and to stand up and be counted.

Many African Americans are realizing just how far off the mark the NAACP is with regard to the real issues and the most important problems facing the black community.

The NAACP was once a super hero ‘civil rights’ organization fighting for truth and justice—working to right so many horrible wrongs. But over the years the bright and shining halo that once surrounded the organization has not only dulled but has become non existent, and I find that very sad.

Value Life and All of God’s Children

Day Gardner — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:07:32 +0000

By Day Gardner

In America, we subconsciously devalue black babies. We are tricked into thinking a black child has less value than a child of another race.

Though U.S. law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race in various contexts, including employment, education and housing, black babies are still openly targeted and discriminated against.

Please, Google Missing Black Children.

Day Gardner is president of the National Black Pro-life Union.

Bart Stupak Goes “POOF!”

Day Gardner — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:17:49 +0000

By Day Gardner

Until the very last moment we all held our collective breath cheering on Rep. Bart Stupak and the other Democrats who were willing to risk it all by standing up for God’s smallest children.

We saw the so called pro-life left crumble Representative by Representative as deals were made behind closed doors–each one receiving their 30 pieces of silver–to continue the delivery of dead children.

But not Bart Stupak! I mean, afterall he said that he would stand firm against abortion, didn’t he? Yeah, right!

Many Americans put so much trust in Rep. Bart Stupak and the other Democrats who stood with him when they promised that they would stand firm–no matter what–to insure there would be NO taxpayer funded abortion.

Mr. Stupak even tried to sell us on the ever so precious “executive order.” We Americans may be temporarily blinded by the little flashes of light in Washington, DC, but we are not stupid. We all know an executive order is practically worthless.

Stupak’s vote–a switch from NO to YES is unfortunately proof that he was and is without backbone. At one time, I saw him as a steadfast warrior who stood on principles of everything just and righteous–but in an instant with a ‘yes’ vote, he is demolished in my mind–becoming nothing but cloud of dust. “Poof!” Rep. Bart Stupak…just another member of Congress who promised so much, yet delivered so little and in fact, delivered nothing.

As of last week, Rep. Stupak announced that he will not seek re-election.

Mr. Stupak, you will be sadly missed by this pro-lifer…NOT!

BLACK HISTORY MONTH…

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:05:36 +0000

By Day Gardner

In the words of the late ‘Golden Girl’ Estelle Getty, picture this…

The year is 1865. The Civil War finally comes to an end and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolishes slavery.

For awhile, things looked pretty good for freed slaves. Just a year after the Civil War ended, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, conferring citizenship and equal rights for black people. A few months later, Congress approved the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection under the law to all citizens.

Two years after the Civil War, in 1867, Congress passed Reconstruction Acts. The status of the Negro was the focal problem of Reconstruction. Though slavery had been abolished the white people of the South were determined to keep the Negro in his place, socially, politically, and economically. Enter the notorious “Black Codes.” These codes were regarded as a revival of slavery in disguise. The first such body of statutes was enacted in the state of Mississippi in November 1865. That same year in Tennessee, a group of ex-Confederate soldiers formed the KKK, a group of domestic terrorists with a focused objective: to intimidate freed former slaves and their white supporters. Klan terrorism succeeded in preventing African-Americans from using their newly won rights. The Klan’s aim was to prevent African-Americans from voting, getting an education, competing for jobs and owning property. By 1869, Congress approved the Fifteenth Amendment guaranteeing African Americans the right to vote. Congress approved the Civil Rights Act in March of 1875 and by 1883 it was overturned. On October 15, the Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional. The court declared that the Fourteenth Amendment forbids states, but not citizens from practicing discrimination.From 1870 to 1895, many blacks gained elective office throughout the Nation, but outbreaks of violence against blacks in the South became more and more common.It wasn’t long before America’s cities were over-flowing with former slaves and their extended families. They were migrating north to seek employment opportunities in industrial cities and to escape racism, and violence. The Great Migration from the south to north began around 1915. More than 4 million blacks –former farmers and field workers became bell hops, butlers, maids, doormen, cooks, and nannies–they shined shoes and cleaned toilets. They attended schools—many started businesses or became teachers and by 1920, African American writers, poets and artists emerged in a period of creativity known as the Harlem Renaissance. Black people started to realize the American Dream came not only in white–but black and shades of gray, as well.

Meanwhile, the KKK was raging a lynching war on Negroes in the south and Margaret Sanger and friends were devising an evil plan of their own. She was a staunch believer in eugenic controls to enforce what she called “race hygiene.” She associated with known racists and in 1926 she was the guest speaker at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Silverlake, New Jersey. In Margaret Sanger’s book The Pivot of Civilization, (published 1922), she also called for the elimination of “human weeds,” for the segregation of “morons, misfits, and maladjusted,” and for the sterilization of “genetically inferior races.In 1939, Sanger’s NEGRO PROJECT was initiated. The plan was simple-get rid of black people. Kill them off by limiting the growth of the population by abortion and sterilization She knew that some blacks would figure out their sinister plot so it was decided by Sanger to take the plan to the clergy and charismatic members the black community to have them deliver the death message to their congregations. In a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble Sanger stated, “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. And the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”Notice that Sanger said the ministers should be “hired.” There are many black ministers, politicians and community organizers today who support abortion, Sanger’s form of ethnic cleansing–most of them are still “hired.” They have sold their souls for “30 pieces of silver.” Margaret Sanger went on to become the founder of Planned Parenthood an organization that makes most of its blood money by killing children—especially black children. Abortion providers are still being located for the most part in black neighborhoods and are still delivering the same old message–that black, poor children, living in urban areas–are not worthy of life. America would be a better place without black people. The KKK brutally killed about 3500 black people since it began in 1865—Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood is responsible for the more than 17 million black deaths since 1973. Every day more than 5000 babies are slaughtered by the blades of the abortion butchers—decapitated, ripped apart…killed.How can America say we are better than the regimes of the Holocaust, Darfur, Sudan or China if we allow the butchering of America’s innocent children to continue? This is Black History Month. Let’s remember why the killing began and then vow in Jesus’ name to end it…picture that!

Day Gardner, National Black Pro-Life Union Comments on Racial Statement Made by Senator Harry Reid

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:49:10 +0000

The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate, Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid recently apologized for comments made about Barack Obama’s race during the 2008 presidential bid. He described then-Sen. Barack Obama as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

Hmmm…several questions come to mind, what exactly is Negro dialect?

Did Harry Reid think Barack Obama’s uncanny ability to turn on and off the so-called ‘Negro dialect’ like a water faucet — a good thing? Wouldn’t that make Obama a bit of a fake…a phony in every sense of the word?

Also, the main reason black people in general ‘put away’ the term Negro is because that word, which is Spanish for black–spurred the term, nigger.

And was Mr. Reid insinuating that if Barack Obama’s skin had been a shade or two darker he might have been less supporting?

I remember reading the Willie Lynch letter written in 1712.

Lynch writes: I have a fool-proof method for controlling your black slaves. I guarantee everyone of you that if installed correctly it will control the slaves for at least 300 years. My method is simple, any member of your family or any overseer can use it.

I have outlined a number of differences among the slaves, and I take these differences and make them bigger. I use fear, distrust, and envy for control purposes. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies, and it will work throughout the South. Take this simple little test of differences and think about them. On the top of my list is “Age”, but it is there because it only starts with an “A”; the second is “Color” or shade…

Don’t forget, you must pitch the old Black vs. the young Black male, and the young Black male against the old Black male. You must use the dark skinned slaves vs the light skinned slaves, and the light skinned slaves vs. the dark skinned slaves. The Black Slave, after receiving this indoctrination, shall carry on and will become self refueling and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands.

Hmmm…interesting.

I believe the comments made by Senator Harry Reid stems from a time in American history where the shade of a black man’s skin determined whether he was a field nigger or a house nigger. Either way, to the slave owner he was still just a slave; a sub-human to be owned and controlled.

Jesse Jackson? Color Him Ridiculous!

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:24:44 +0000

Day Gardner, National Black Pro-Life Union Comments on Remark Made By Jesse Jackson at Congressional Black Caucus Reception

At a reception, held by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Foundation as part of a series of events revolving around the 25th anniversary of Jackson’s run for president, Jesse Jackson stated: “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” He said. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”

What a dumb thing to say. I don’t pretend to know the reasons why Rep. Arthur Davis, (D-AL) voted against the health care bill earlier this month and I’m not implying that he is pro-life, but at least he’s not drinking the same flavor kool-ade as Mr. Jackson.

All Americans should question the health care monster!

The sad thing is that Jesse Jackson is a man that I once looked up to–way back when he was a power house for human rights, especially the right to life for unborn children.

Jesse once identified himself as a person who would have been aborted if medical counsel had been followed. Jesse Jackson once wrote: “Human life begins when the sperm and egg join . . . and the pulsation of life takes place.” He said, “From that point, life may be described differently (as an egg, embryo, fetus, baby, child, teen-ager, adult), but the essence is the same.'’

I remember way back–when he spoke at the 1977 March for Life asking the question: ‘’What happens to the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience.'’

Back in the day, in an ‘’Open Letter to Congress'’ Jesse Jackson stated “as a matter of conscience” he must “oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.”

Wow! Where is that guy?

I believe the Jesse Jackson–the civil rights leader from way back–would be leading the pack today against the funding of abortion as health care.

Black children are specifically targeted by the abortion industry which places most of its abortion killing centers in minority and urban neighborhoods. They are denied their civil rights including the most basic right to life; a right which Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson, our ancestors and others so proudly worked for, marched for and many of them died for.

Sadly, today, Jesse Jackson is just a mere shadow of the man he once was. He is no longer a power house–instead he is a bought off, shriveled, and empty shell.

I remember a much younger, and wiser “Reverend” Jesse Jackson leading the thunder of children’s voices shouting…”I AM SOMEBODY!” And Mr. Jackson, though you have lost your way, I pray that one day you will remember that each and every unborn child is somebody, too!

The National Black Pro-Life Union is an organization founded to serve as a clearing house to coordinate the flow of communications among all African American pro-life organizations and individuals in order to better network and combine resources.

We realize that if we are to be successful, it is necessary to share information and/or resources as well as “who gets the credit.” We acknowledge that the real credit for any good thing always goes to GOD-not man.

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