The Black Urban Community:
America's Canary in the Mine Shaft, By: Lonnie Poindexter, 7/7//16
On the fourth
of July this past weekend I was invited to speak at a Prayer Rally on the mall
of Independence Hall in Philadelphia sponsored by the United Saints of America,
a pro traditional values and pro 2nd Amendment organization
sponsored by Pastor Sylvester Bland. The following are the words of my
address on this historic occasion.
My name is
Lonnie Poindexter. I host a national radio show in our nation’s Capitol. The
show is called Lion Chasers with Lonnie Poindexter. The name is based on 1st Chronicles 11:22. “Benaiah one of David's mighty men
went down into a pit and slayed a lion on a snowy day.”
We champion
uncommon men and women of faith who are not afraid to speak truth and speak
that truth to power. The focus of our show is the intersection of faith
and public policy. Our mantra is there is no separation between morality and
governance. Our target demographic is Black urban communities across
America that have been bombarded with 50 plus years of liberal policies that
have decimated the community so much so that today 70 plus percent of black urban
households are single parent typically female head of household.
In short we
take a biblical world view to a community that historically has always shared
these values except when going into the voting booth where they cast ballots
that are contrary to those values.
America is in
crisis. Our families are under attack. The Black urban family in particular is
in crisis mode with abortion disproportionately represented in our community
with over 1800 black babies aborted across the nation every day. The total
number to date is nearly 20 million babies since Roe v. Wade in 1973.
Some sobering
statistics:
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Well over 70% of abortion clinics are located in urban
communities funded with our tax dollars to the tune of half a billion dollars
per year.
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70% plus of black families in urban America today are
single parent.
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70% of black urban families prior to the Great Society
Entitlement Programs (welfare) implemented by President Lyndon Baine Johnson in
1964 were 2 parent typically male head of household.
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Abortion has done to the black family and community what
Jim Crow and slavery could not. For the first time in history the black
population is in depopulation.
According to
Rev. Walter B. Hoye, an expert on abortion and the founder and president of the
Issues 4Life Foundation, the Black population in America has been cut nearly in
half because of abortion. Here is a quote from Rev. Hoye from a recent article
in Life News:
“Our best
estimates, based on a projection of the most recent data through the current
period, is that the current cumulative number of abortions from 1967 through
June of this year is 59.4 million, of which an estimated 20,350,000 are Black
American abortions,” Hoye says.
“Considering
that the total current Black American population is about 42,000,000, the
20,350,000 Black American abortions are equal to 48.45% of the total Black
American population. If not for abortion, the total Black American population
would be approximately 62,350,000, or 48% greater than it is today,” he explained.
So Blacks as an
ethnicity have been cut nearly in half in 40 plus years. And our families are
nearly decimated with fatherhood aborted and no fathers in the home.
I want to share
a story: There was a herd of elephants at a game preserve in Africa that had a
problem. Elephants were continually found injured throughout the preserve. In
fact they were finding other animals injured as well and some
were even found dead. It was discovered that the juvenile males were
attacking other elephants in the herd. And they found that those juvenile males
had actually killed some of the rhinos on the preserve.
They inquired
with a recently retired game warden as to what could be done. The retired
warden asked where Buck was? Buck was
the dominant male in the preserve. They responded they had retired Buck and
sent him to another preserve. Well the old warden said, “You go and get
Buck and put him back into the herd.” They protested because they said Buck was
too old and no longer needed. The old warden again said, “Trust me. Just get
Buck and return him to the herd.”
Well they did
as he suggested and the result was...there was again peace in the herd and by
default the preserve.
My point in
sharing this story and these statics is this: Traditional roles and mores are
under attack in America. When you attempt to redefine what God has ordained and
His natural order, you end up with chaos, just like what happened in that game
preserve.
The Black urban
community and its plight is the canary in the mine shaft for the state of
America. To quote Dr. Patrick Fagan of the MARRI Marriage & Religious
Research Institute at Family Research Council, when I inquired of his passion
for what is taking place in urban America: “So goes the black community, so
goes the rest of America.”
The social
reengineering taking place so successfully in the Black community is now being
rolled out across America attacking all that our great nation was, and is, and
is yet to be. Revisionist history writing as to our origins has infected our foundational
systems including: education, governance, commerce, entertainment, our
military, even our religious institutions. We all have a vested interest
in pushing back on this evil agenda that is permeating America. When the
common sense, God-loving populace of America stands up and activates its moral
authority we can return our nation to its faith based moral foundings.
5 points have
been identified by those of us here today who stand for and fight the good
fight of faith drawing our line in the sand with the sword of truth. And we
profess that truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help us God.
1.
STOP! The 60 Million murderous acts of Planned Parenthood and it’s minions in
the liberal progressive agenda.
2.
STOP! The radicalized factions of Islam with its hate, murder and terrorisms
and for God’s sake call the duck of Radical Islamic Terrorism a duck since it
walks and quacks like one.
3.
STOP! The perversions or moral relativity which I call the False Doctrine of
Tolerance and Inclusion which attempts to redefine our cultural mores built on
a Judeo Christian ethic from the inception of this great nation.
4.
STOP! The Liberal/Progressive Religious “Left” who wallows in Political
Correctness and defangs the tenets of the original faith, substituting that
faith with lust of the flesh, lust for power and greed.
5.
Remind the Religious “Right” of its charter to stand for truth and maintain a
biblical standard of moral clarity in the midst of this epic battle.
My final point:
my brethren are those who share my values and my biblical worldview. Let us as
brothers and sisters in Christ of all ethnicity, and citizens of this great
nation all celebrate our nation’s birthday by unifying in prayer and then doing
what Christ has commanded us to do. Occupy and take dominion until his
triumphant return.
(Unless otherwise noted, the opinions expressed are the author’s and do
not necessarily reflect the views of the American Family Association or
American Family Radio. Likewise no comments directed at the moderator(s) will
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