Posted on 08/03/2015 1:26:54 PM PDT by Jyotishi
The founder of Planned Parenthood... considered many Americans unworthy of life - Recent articles have reported on an unearthed video from 1947 of Margaret Sanger demanding “no more babies” for 10 years in developing countries. A couple of years ago, Margaret Sanger was named one of Time magazine’s “20 Most Influential Americans of All Time.” Given her enduring influence, it’s worth considering what the woman who founded Planned Parenthood contributed to the eugenics movement.
Sanger shaped the eugenics movement in America and beyond in the 1930s and 1940s. Her views and those of her peers in the movement contributed to compulsory sterilization laws in 30 U.S. states that resulted in more than 60,000 sterilizations of vulnerable people, including people she considered “feeble-minded,” “idiots” and “morons.”
She even presented at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1926 in Silver Lake, N.J. She recounted this event in her autobiography: “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan … I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses … I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak … In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered” (Margaret Sanger, “An Autobiography,” Page 366). That she generated enthusiasm among some of America’s leading racists says something about the content and tone of her remarks.
In a letter to Clarence Gable in 1939, Sanger wrote: “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members” (Margaret Sanger commenting on the ‘Negro Project’ in a letter...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Sadly not too many folks will delve into the eugenics movement and see some of our favorite nation builders that were involved. Just sayin’.
Providentially I stopped supporting the Smithsonian years before they honored her. All funding for that should be given to WIC.
FDR, Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood
The Negro Project
POOR, BLACK & “UNDESIRABLE”
The aim of the program was to restrict—many believe exterminate—the black population. Under the pretense of “better health” and “family planning,” Sanger cleverly implemented her plan. What’s more shocking is Sanger’s beguilement of black America’s crème de la crème—those prominent, well educated and well-to-do—into executing her scheme. Some within the black elite saw birth control as a means to attain economic empowerment, elevate the race and garner the respect of whites.
The Negro Project has had lasting repercussions in the black community: “We have become victims of genocide by our own hands,” cried Hunter at the “Say So” march.
“The main objectives of the [proposed] Population Congress is to…apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.” – Margaret Sanger, “Plan for Peace”, 1932 Senate hearing5
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 1939 PLANNED PARENTHOOD INITIATIVE
http://www.toomanyaborted.com/thenegroproject/
When Clinton was given that award, I commented to my boss, a liberal university professor, that Sanger was a racist who advocated the eradication of the American negro and he thought I was nuts ( well...) Any way a junior researcher in the car googled it and read the report aloud. Doc Rooney was aghast! He said we were “ in collusion against him-” we were “conspiring conservatists” etc. A few week later Doc Rooney called me and said he was truly amazed at the truth- he could not believe that we were indeed correct. He remained a foolish liberal until the last time I saw him- a few years back now. At least he looked it up himself and acknowledged the truth.
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