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| State Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery |
Fresh after giving conservatives/ republicans a Wedgie because he dared call out United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Alabama State Rep. Alvin Holmes strikes again!
A debate Tuesday over a bill to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected turned to race after Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, R-Indian Springs, compared her bill to Brown vs. the Board of Education.Media enabled weapon of mass distraction from the real issue here we come! Yee Haw!
But during the debate, Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, said that his Republican colleagues would support abortion if their daughters were impregnated by black men.
It's easier to talk about what Alvin Holmes said instead of what Alvin Holmes was talking about which is Alabama State Rep. Mary (Fetus are Organs) McClurkin's bill to end access to safe legal abortions for poor women in Alabama.
On Tuesday, a panel of Alabama lawmakers advanced four stringent anti-abortion bills that would prevent women in the state from exercising their reproductive rights. The proposed legislation would ban abortions after just six weeks; force women to wait 48 hours before getting an abortion; make it more difficult for minors to end an unwanted pregnancy; and impose more emotional trauma on women who choose to have an abortion after discovering lethal fetal abnormalities.Note I said the bill to end access to safe, legal abortions for poor women in Alabama. Women like Mary Sue, not so much.
If Alabama chooses to expand Medicaid under the federal Affordable Care Act, the state could gain about $1 billion in new tax revenue, according to a pair of University of Alabama at Birmingham health care economists in a study released today.So here's the deal, a bunch of people, who if they choose, have access to a safe legal abortion are trying to keep black/ poor WOMEN from having access to a safe legal abortion. These same people are anti access to affordable health care because Obama, anti access to quality public schools because Obama, and anti welfare just because.
In the most likely scenario, some 300,000 more state residents would be covered under an expansion, according to David Becker and Michael Morrisey at the UAB School of Public Health.
UAB, which has the largest hospital in the state and one of the largest public hospitals in the country, released the report this morning saying the research was a "win-win" for the state and Medicaid-eligible patients.
"Across the first seven years of Medicaid expansion, the net budgetary effect is positive throughout," Becker said in a UAB press release. "In a very real sense, the state makes money while expanding coverage to nearly 300,000 Alabamians."
But let's talk about what Alvin Holmes said out of context so we won't have to talk about the substance of what Alvin Holmes said.
Mission Accomplished.
12 comments:
Alvin is a racist plain and simple. Did he include the black Republicans when he said, "his Republican colleagues would support abortion if their daughters were impregnated by black men." That is also a racist statement! Democrats do not want to kill someone on death row but they have no problem killing an innocent baby!# WOW!
http://kff.org/womens-health-policy/state-indicator/abortions-by-race/
This shows more black women had abortions than whites in 2009. 57% black 39% white. I am still looking for more current years.
I was not thinking looks like you are right. I would love to see black republicans in Alabama! Some like Herman Cain, Allen West, Condoleeza Rice,Zora Neale Hurston, Colin Powell,Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican,Dr. Benjamin Carson, & Elbert Guillory. If we had elected Republicans like these we would be in great shape as a state and nation!
When did the GOP get so white?
Dust off your history books and you will see Republicans once had a virtual lock on the minority vote—and minority elected officials. The legacy of Lincoln was alive and well until not so long ago. Which makes the retreat of recent decades both unfortunate and ill-timed.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/24/when-did-the-gop-get-so-white-the-republicans-loss-of-diversity.html
Do you think Allen is racist? I know he is by his statements. If a white person said it reversed it would be out cry from our black communities!!!!!!!
"Speaking on his daily radio show, William Bennett, education secretary under Ronald Reagan and drugs czar under the first George Bush, said: "If you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose; you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/29/AR2005092902126.html
Do you think Bill Bennett is a racist?
I wonder when we will acknowledge that abortion is a matter of quality health care for women?
I wonder when people who have access to quality, affordable, healthcare will stop being selfish.
YES I think William Bennett is racist for making that statement! Now again Do you think Allen is racist from the MANY statements he has made? If you don't then you are closed minded and only call racism when some one white does something and if so you are WRONG!Racism goes both ways!!
No I don't think Allen (?) is racist for the MANY statements he has made. And you are wrong, racism does not go both ways, but if it makes you feel better to say it does have at it.
http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/03/rep_alvin_holmes_callous_rant.html#incart_2box
Great AL.COM article by a black male written about Alvin Holmes! REALLY? Black Racism is alive and well because we teach our kind to hate and blames whites. Not all white are like the small few! Same as not all black are racist but yes there are many who are like Alvin! If a white elected official said the same thing but reversed would he be racist??
I don't care if Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came down from heaven and wrote an article about what Alvin Holmes said. It's not about what Alvin Holmes said, it's about what Alvin Holmes was talking about. The Republican House voted to deny poor black women access to a safe legal abortion. That is racist. It's not about that thing you said, it's about that thing you DID.
What part of it's not what was said it's about what was done don't you understand FEDUP? And yes, it will affect all poor women, but republicans don't care.
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