Jackson Free Press

"You can go without food. You cannot go without life."

—The Rev. Mychal Massie, during a protest at the Jackson Women's Health Organization, comparing abortion to poverty and hunger in the African American community resulting from economic and political disenfranchisement and oppression.

Why It Stinks: Is Rev. Mychal Massie saying that you can't live without life? That's too meta. He seems to suggest that the racism and lack of opportunity that African Americans face on a daily basis is nothing compared to the issue of abortion, and that those who worry that African Americans "can't get food" are focused on the wrong issue. Besides the faulty logic he uses in saying that humans can actually "go without food," which they cannot, mocking civil rights concerns isn't helping him, either.