Yes, killing Roe is a racist act
Jane Elliott is famous for her exercises teaching about racism, exercises she presents at various schools and to different groups of people. Below she reports about the ideology behind the movement to stop abortions in this country. I’ve transcribed her words beneath the video, and any transcription errors are definitely my own.
90-priceless seconds of Jane Elliot…pic.twitter.com/zfpPLCQLTV
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 25, 2022
“And right now white people are really frightened. If you don’t understand this discussion of Planned Parenthood offices and you don’t understand the Wall that we’re going to build on the southern border of the United States, you haven’t read the book “The Birth Dearth” by Ben Wattenberg. Ben Wattenberg was a brilliant Jewish man who was a member of the American Enterprise Institute. And he wrote a book the first paragraph of which says, “The main problem confronting the United States today is there aren’t enough white babies being born in this country.”
He was an adviser to the President of the United States. He wrote the book in 1987. He says there, “If we don’t change this and change it rapidly, white people will lose their numerical majority in this country, and this will no longer be a white man’s land.”
Now I am not misrepresenting this, I’m telling you exactly, almost exactly what he said. He said, “There are two things you can do to solve this. Number one, we could pay women to have babies, as they have been doing in Western European nations for years.”
Then he says—and these are his words not mine—”Unfortunately, we would have to pay women of all colors to have babies, so we don’t want to do that.”
He says, “The second thing we could do is increase the number of legal immigrants that are allowed into this country every year.” Then again he says, “Unfortunately, the vast majority of those wanting to come to this country today are people of color. We don’t want to do that.”
The third thing he says, “And white women had better pay attention to this, 60% of the fetuses aborted every year are white. If we could keep those 60% alive, that would solve our ‘birth dearth’.”
Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesn’t, I want to know why it doesn’t.