If you spend as much time as me, cruising through the less than desirable parts of Oakland, looking for blog fodder, you’ve probably seen this billboard above the vacant lots, shady liquor stores and laundromats that populate the East and West (read: Black) sides of the city. I get it: black women are having too many damn abortions… enough to warrant large billboards in the ghetto… as if a Lil Wayne concert was a month away.

In the midst of this economic recession, the only way for blacks (especially those living in the less than desirable parts of town) to get ahead, is to have more babies… obviously. I think Adam Smith wrote something to that effect. While California doesn’t make statistics about abortion available to the public, they do catalog the obscene amount of murders in our cities, so a more accurate billboard might read, “The Most Dangerous Place for an African American is in East Oakland, West Oakland, South Los Angeles or Compton”… but I don’t think you can just put a billboard saying that on a main street now, can you?

Jul 12. 2 Notes.