Toni V. Lee

Genesis 2:7 KJV 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Isn't it something how so many folk who call themselves Pro-life actually stop caring about people after they take their first breath? That living soul that was "fearfully and wonderfully made" then becomes... * Someone they hate and fear just because...  * Someone they wish didn't exist. * Someone they look down upon. * Someone they find unacceptable because they are not like them. * A N-word and other derogatory names for different races. * "You people". * "Blood poison". * Someone to keep under their foot. Sounds ugly? It should...because it is. These folk are NOT Pro-life. They are Pro-birth for they couldn't care less about that baby after it leaves the birth canal and takes its first breath... It is for that very reason Pro-lifers are viewed with contempt, disgust, and labeled hypocrites...

I just want to drop a little forgotten (ignored may be a better word) history nugget.  The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key, a slave owner, in 1814 during the War of 1812. He owned human beings when he wrote the song and still owned them when he died.  When he wrote the line that's sung with gusto and pride, "O’er the land of the free...", it did NOT include every person--human being--in America. Certainly not the enslaved folk he held in bondage. His song was adopted as the anthem of the United States of America in 1931. When your lips tremble to rebuke and low-rate folk who object to the song being considered their anthem, please remember this little nugget of history...because they do. All I'm sayin' is exactly what I said. Just keepin' it real...