Your chances of survival – if you’re alive and reading this – are better than you think.
Just by making it to your current age (whatever it is) and station in life, you’ve actually beaten some not-unformidable odds.
Do you know what the leading cause of death is in America? Take a guess.
You could be forgiven for thinking our share of the pandemic killed the most, with 119,00 and counting. Actually, according to 2017 records, Alzheimer’s has taken more victims than that in recent years. Strokes take even more. Accidents account for close to 170,000 people a year.
Of the “big three,” cancer kills about 600,000, and heart disease nearly 50,000 more than that. Which makes the biggest cause of death in America ...
... well, the biggest cause goes unrecorded, curiously, in most lists of our vital statistics. But close records are kept, and they show that, in 2017, the leading cause of death in America – in fact, in the world – was abortion.
By far. About 862,000 lives were ended that year ... almost before they’d begun. More than 200,000 than died from the next-remotely-worse thing.
That’s counting everybody in America, of course – as if we were one big, happy family. But every media outlet in the country wants to assure us we’re not “one” or “happy,” so if you break things down by race, it gets a little more horrific.
According to a 2009 study, abortion accounts for 64 percent of all Hispanic deaths in America.
And about 61 percent of all African-American deaths.
Which raises some questions pertinent to what’s been happening in our country these last few weeks.
· What sounds more like “systemic” racism to you?
A political landscape that features prominent blacks in every major position of local, state, and federal government ... or a political party that makes the crux of its national agenda the aggressive support and expansion of a program that is responsible for nearly two-thirds of African-American deaths every year?
· Which sounds more like “privilege” to you?
A culture in which blacks have achieved demonstrably equal success at every level of politics, business, sports, entertainment? Or one in which all of the races of one particular party work tirelessly to ensure that only about one-third of the next generation of Hispanics and black Americans survive to lead, compete, excel, and accomplish?
· Which sounds more like support for “Black Lives Matter?”
The vast majority of police, firefighters, and soldiers who risk their lives every day to serve and protect people of every race and background in America ... or the politicos who pose for high-profile photo ops, while voting relentlessly along party lines for the steady, brutal eradication of black lives in the wombs of American women?
Some people just don’t know who their friends are. Or their enemies.
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