Racial Profiling or Necessary Precaution?

Regarding the segment on the Black Family, it is time for us a community to embrace one of the most taboo concepts in our community: family planning. I understand that there is a racist history tied to the initial planned parenthood movement; but now it is 2007 - we need to re-examine the benefits and virtue of family planning.
1) Family Planning encourages life planning, financial planning, and goal setting. If you evaluate your own goals for your life, you may be encouraged to start your family when you can provide the best possible outcome for your children, and not scramble to do your best when an unplanned pregnancy occurs (the current status quo).
2) Re-examination of the "baby mother/baby father" style of parenting. If you are very cognizant that you can control the patronage on your future children (for both men and women); then our reproductive behavior can be adjusted, even if our sexual behavior stays the same. Birth control is very effective when used properly, especially when you employ multiple methods (i.e. condom + spermicide + birth control pills) or (condom + spermicide)
3. Family Planners are not selfish, power driven uncle toms. There may be some huge supporters of family planning whose views call their character into question, but those people are by far in the minority. Family Planning does not make one a control freak, or make a woman one of those emasculating career dragons. Family Planners are not leading the grassroots anti-black (a.k.a. I am better than the common negro)movement. If anything, protecting your reproductive health, and engaging in proactive reproductive choices is a very pro-black ideology. It says that: (a) you are a person who wants to create a family from the foundation up, and not from the roof down
(b) you want to give every child the gift on knowing that they are wanted and not incidental
(c) you will bore black children into the best financial, supportive, peaceful, loving, and stable environment that you can provide.

I apologize for the long rant, as I am very passionate about this issue, and I want for our community to be more embracing of it.

Sent by Tam from Arlington | 1:57 PM | 11-2-2007