{"id":9631,"date":"2010-02-17T15:41:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2010-02-17T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:41:18","slug":"evaluating-the-outrageous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9631","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating the Outrageous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"postavatar\" src=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/icons\/karnythia.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"evaluating-the-outrageous\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheangryblackwoman.com%2F2010%2F02%2F17%2Fevaluating-the-outrageous%2F\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheangryblackwoman.com%2F2010%2F02%2F17%2Fevaluating-the-outrageous%2F\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/14\/world\/americas\/14haiti.html\">Adviser for Americans arrested in Haiti suspected of Child Trafficking in El Salvador<\/a>. So am I supposed to believe they just happened to find someone connected to human trafficking and hired him? Don&#8217;t answer that. In other &#8220;I hate the world&#8221; news this shit right <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100214\/ap_on_re_us\/us_abortion_race_card\">here<\/a>? Prime example of what happens when groups get so focused on their pet interest that they throw all logic and common sense out the window. The reality is that abortions are not happening because Planned Parenthood exists. Long before Margaret Sanger was a notion in her mother&#8217;s eye women had ways to end a pregnancy. And they did so (and still do so) for a lot of reasons having nothing to do with race, though as with everything else racism does play a part in the underpinnings of some of those reasons. <\/p>\n<p>First up, there&#8217;s the purely financial aspect of things. We live in a country that begrudges people a living wage and health insurance. For some reason these are viewed as things you have to earn, and if you don&#8217;t manage to secure them then it&#8217;s all your fault for not using those magical boostraps. Never mind pesky details like limited educational opportunities, a sagging job market, and the overall lack of boots or straps that plague much of our population. Attitudes toward public assistance are ugly and filled with all sort of ridiculous myths about recipients. Especially recipients of color. That Welfare Queen schtick is alive and well along with an idea that more money = better parents. Not true. <\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the reality that not every relationship that produces a child is a safe healthy long term one. That&#8217;s not exclusive to any race, but the reality is that a WOC in an abusive situation is going to have an even harder time getting help. And more kids can make it harder to leave. And of course there&#8217;s the simply reality that not every pregnancy is a wanted pregnancy for a whole other host of reasons. But hey, why let facts get in the way when you can fin all new ways to pretend that WOC don&#8217;t love their children. After all, if they breed them but can&#8217;t feed them then the answer is to <strike>steal<\/strike> save them right? Right. Oh wait, I was supposed to be outraged at the idea of abortion wasn&#8217;t I? Sorry, I reserve that emotion for stupid manipulative ad campaigns that ignore reality.<\/p>\n<p><h4>And now a word from our sponsor&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p><!-- Beginning of Project Wonderful ad code: --><br \/>\n<!-- Ad box ID: 38358 --><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/nojs.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" colspan=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/advertisehere.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\">Your ad could be here, right now.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" valign=\"top\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Project Wonderful ad code. --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/2010\/02\/17\/evaluating-the-outrageous\/\">Evaluating the Outrageous<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheangryblackwoman.com%2F2010%2F02%2F17%2Fevaluating-the-outrageous%2F\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheangryblackwoman.com%2F2010%2F02%2F17%2Fevaluating-the-outrageous%2F\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"postavatar\" src=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/icons\/karnythia.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"evaluating-the-outrageous\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><br \/>\nAdviser for Americans arrested in Haiti suspected of Child Trafficking in El Salvador. So am I supposed to believe they just happened to find someone connected to human trafficking and hired him? Don&#8217;t answer that. In other &#8220;I hate the world&#8221; news this shit right here? Prime example of what happens when groups get so [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><h4>And now a word from our sponsor&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p><!-- Beginning of Project Wonderful ad code: --><br \/>\n<!-- Ad box ID: 38358 --><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/nojs.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" colspan=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectwonderful.com\/advertisehere.php?id=38358&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">Your ad could be here, right now.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"1\" valign=\"top\" width=\"468\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" style=\"3px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- End of Project Wonderful ad code. --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.com\/2010\/02\/17\/evaluating-the-outrageous\/\">Evaluating the Outrageous<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9631\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}