On Friday, January, 24 at Frank Ogawa Plaza, in front of Oakland City Hall, Walter Hoye will lead the 13th Stand Up 4 Life rally and march. Despite the fact that the abortion holocaust decimates the African-American community more than any other, the event is the only black-led pro-life event in the country.
The Stand Up 4 Life Rally and March began in 2008. Although a then-new event, Hoye was able to attract speakers like Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life; Mrs. Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King, and the Reverend Clenard Childress, founder of BlackGenocide.org.
As Stand Up 4 Life has grown, Hoye continued to attract powerful figures, not only among the African American pro-life community, but also American pro-lifers of other races, such as Father Pavone, Dr. Pat Castle of LIFE Runners, Shawn Carney of 40 Days for Life, and even the Nigerian pro-lifer Obianuju Ekeocha, foundress and CEO of Culture of Life Africa. Over the years the event has become a “who’s who” of the African-American pro life movement: Karen Shablin, Elaine Riddick, Rev. Antoine Lamar Miller, Pastor Bruce Rivers, Pastor Walter Moss, Catholic Lay Evangelist Richard Lane.
Hoye’s standing as a genuine pro-life hero helps. In 2008, he was arrested and served 30 days in jail for saying to a woman entering an abortion business “Jesus loves you and your baby. Let us help you.” He did not obstruct her in any way, yet he was arrested and imprisoned. With the help of the Life Legal Defense Foundation, Hoye’s conviction was overturned, and Oakland’s “bubble ordinance,” under which he was charged, was declared unconstitutional by a federal court.
The roots of Hoye’s dedication is explained by the abortion industry’s own statistics. The decimation of the African-American community through abortion would be unbelievable were it not a cold, hard fact. Hoye writes on his website: “Ground zero. Black America. Since abortion was legalized in 1973, more Black American babies have been killed by abortion than the total number of Black American deaths from all other causes combined.” More black children are aborted in New York City than are born alive. One can see why Hoye calls abortion in America “our Darfur”; why Rev. Childress calls his organization BlackGenocide.org.
One of this year’s guest speakers is again the Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr. In addition to his role as founder of BlackGenocide.org he serves as pastor of the New Calvary Baptist Church in Montclair, NJ. Rev. Childress is joined by author and activist, Rochelle Peterson, author of Does God Really Care About Politics: God And Government“, which Hoye describes as a “very clear and concise treatise for anyone wanting to empower themselves with a greater understanding of politics and how it relates to the Kingdom of God.” She serves an executive member of the Frederick Douglass Foundation of California and a member of the Faith Fellowship Church in San Leandro.
The Stand Up 4 Life Rally begins at 12 p.m., Friday, January 24, in front of Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland. To learn more, visit https://www.issues4life.org/
– Gibbons Cooney
Pastor Walter Hoye and Mrs Lori Hoye are great witnesses to life and to the genocide of black Americans in the womb. May Jesus witness of them to our heavenly Father. May the Father change the hearts of all who kill these holy innocents.
Genocide is a misnomer in this case. It shirks responsibility and smacks of racial victimhood.
Hymie, can you explain why genocide is a misnomer? I understand it to be the “intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part. The hybrid word ‘genocide’ is a combination of the Greek word γένος (“race, people”) and the Latin suffix -caedo (“act of killing”).” Planned Parenthood, the largest company in the abortion business, was started by the racist Margaret Sanger, who explicitly desired fewer non-white children. Look at where Planned Parenthood almost always locates its facilities. Pastor Hoye clearly demonstrates that the African-American community has been targeted by big abortion. I encourage you to check out his website at https://www.issues4life.org.
Because killing one’s own is not genocide. Blaming other people and organizations for one’s own pathologies avoids responsibility and consequences. It also plays into the hoax of black victimhood and white racism in a demographic well plagued with infantilizing programs so near and dear to modern Catholic social thinkers, clergy and layman alike.
For every person you kill, you also kill their potential children, and their potential children. You kill generations of people. Ask Brian Bromberger who is a black man who was placed in adoption by his birth mother. He is now a father himself and runs Radiance with his wife. theradiancefoundation.org for all those interested
The Hoye’s are one of the finest Christian couples I ever have met. They put their faith on the line. Pastor Walter went to jail while trying to save babies from abortion. May God bless them. Modern day living martyrs.
Who’s knocking Hoye? Am merely objecting to the term Black Genocide. It’s misleading and omits accountability for starters. It’s also SJW, Black Lives Matter rhetoric.
Considering the many millions of abortions, one could say the same of any group. Or is just about relativity and proportionality?
PS: Business responds to Demand.
Hymie, businesses create demand as well. Planned Parenthood, big abortion, promotes promiscuity. That causes unwanted pregnancies, for which they sell their final solution. Promiscuity also spreads sexually transmitted diseases, for which, again, PP has services and products from which they profit. Please join us in praying in front of a Planned Parenthood. See for yourself.