{"id":367123,"date":"2010-02-26T17:16:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=77839"},"modified":"2010-02-26T17:16:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:16:23","slug":"trent-franks-abortion-is-worse-for-blacks-than-slavery-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/367123","title":{"rendered":"Trent Franks: Abortion Is Worse for Blacks Than Slavery Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Stark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=459Dny0aabI\">talks to<\/a> Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), a conservative in a safe seat who has no qualms about discussing abortion in extreme terms, and Stark gets the congressman to say legal abortion was worse for African-Americans than slavery was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t believe for one second that he intends to insult anyone,&#8221; says Stark. &#8220;I don\u2019t think he sees the racism (or paternalism) in what he\u2019s saying.&#8221; I agree. <span id=\"more-77839\"><\/span>Franks has been a huge proponent of this argument, going so far as to show the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maafa21.com\/\">&#8220;Mafaa 21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America&#8221;<\/a> to his House colleagues. That film argues, as some black conservatives argue, that legal abortion came about as a plot by white eugenicists to destroy black America. So that&#8217;s where Franks is coming from.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/459Dny0aabI\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/459Dny0aabI\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Stark talks to Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), a conservative in a safe seat who has no qualms about discussing abortion in extreme terms, and Stark gets the congressman to say legal abortion was worse for African-Americans than slavery was. &#8220;I don\u2019t believe for one second that he intends to insult anyone,&#8221; says Stark. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}