The double threat African-Americans have had to contend with

National Post, 01 August 2020

The twin national actions of incarceration and abortion have made it more difficult for African-Americans to live free, or live at all.

It was an evocative week to think about the progress and regress of Black America. The funeral of Rep. John Lewis at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta capped off a week of emotional remembrances, including taking his mortal remains over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., 55 years after he was beaten there by state troopers.

I made a pilgrimage to Ebenezer Baptist Church in 2012, to pray in the home church of the American civil rights movement. I keep an image of that church on my fridge to this day. Martin Luther King Jr. was born just down the street from the church, where preaching was the family trade — both his father (Daddy King) and grandfather held that pulpit.

Daddy King was the pastor for 44 years; in the 1960s, King and his father were co-pastors. On Thursday, former U.S. president Barack Obama said that King was Ebenezer’s greatest pastor, and that Lewis was his “greatest disciple.”

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