The Obama administration would like African Americans to believe that childhood obesity is killing them, literally.

On July 12, 2010, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke about childhood obesity at the NAACP's Kansas City, Mo. national convention. According to Mrs. Obama, childhood obesity must be stopped and is as pernicious to American society as slavery and Jim Crow. Mrs. Obama is so concerned about this gnawing problem afflicting America’s youth that she is launching a new initiative, “Let’s Move,” to help fight this growing disease. The initiative will encourage children to eat healthier by providing nutritious snacks in school and to lead active lifestyles. Invoking the memory of civil rights activists Thurgood Marshall and Daisy Bates, Mrs. Obama implores the nation to stand behind this effort.

Although it may be true that one in three children in the United States is overweight or obese—putting them at greater risk of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and asthma—the epidemic of childhood obesity in America, however, is not what is really killing African Americans: abortion is. Put bluntly, for every three black babies born, two are aborted.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), since 1973, the year the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, 13 million African American babies have been aborted. The CDC reports that of the approximately 4,000 abortions that are performed daily in the United States, 1,452 of them are performed on African American women. Thus, this accounts for more than one-third of the abortions (35 percent) committed in the United States. But this is rarely addressed in the mass media.

Planned Parenthood (PP) paved the way for the demise of innocent life—notably African American life. PP Founder Margaret Sanger convinced black ministers, doctors and teachers, including NAACP co-founder W.E.B. DuBois, that family planning, including abortion, would be socially and economically beneficial. Ms. Sanger forgot to mention that her real goal was eugenics and the extinction of the black race. Dating from 1932, The Birth Control Review, a PP magazine, had numerous articles by prominent black leaders on the “Negro” problem and the need for birth control among blacks. According to Ms. Sanger, “Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.” In 1929, PP established the Negro Project to “help” African Americans with family planning and other health services. Ms. Sanger believed that the only way to end the “negro problem,” as she put it, was to “secure a representative of colored birth control committee of leading negroes.” In other words, she wanted a “steering committee adapted to the negro psychology.”

PP is the largest abortion provider in the United States, and is not subtle in its goal to destroy the black population. In fact, seventy-eight percent of all abortion clinics are located in or near predominantly minority neighborhoods. This makes it easier for blacks to have abortions;13 percent of American women are black and submit to 35 percent of all abortions in America.

Since 1973, abortion has reduced the black population by over 25 percent. Twice as many African Americans have died from abortion than from AIDS, accidents, violent crimes, cancer and heart disease combined. In fact, every three days, more African Americans are killed by abortion than have been killed by the Ku Klux Klan in its entire history. Obesity is not killing African Americans, abortion is.

Ironically, African Americans who fought so hard for equality and their civil rights are overwhelmingly pro-choice. Currently in Congress, every member of the Congressional Black Caucus identifies himself or herself as pro-choice. Pro-life African Americans are also absent from our nation’s legislative branch.  Among the preeminent charlatans peddling abortion are Reverend Jesse Jackson and Reverend Al Sharpton. Leading African American organizations such as the NAACP and even religious outfits like the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and Clergy for Choice all promote a woman’s right to choose. Unfortunately, African Americans, who historically have led the fight for equality, have abandoned the rights of black infants in the womb. It is these helpless creatures who need their help the most.

A new campaign is needed. African Americans must take a stand against this atrocity that is destroying their own. As abortions continue to callously sweep our nation, ravaging innocent life, African Americans must act to save the vulnerable black babies on the extermination block.

As Mrs. Obama eloquently reminds us, the NAACP was established “to secure those blessings of liberty, to fulfill that promise of equality.” These blessings can only be achieved when the sanctity of life from its inception is respected and the killing of innocent babies ceases. So then, the next time three African American babies are about to be born, let’s pray all three live long enough to have the privilege and right to become obese, if they so choose. Only then will Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream become a reality.