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Originally Posted by aCultureWarrior
Poor Marge, like annabennedetti implied in earlier posts, she's just misunderstood by us right wing homophobic racists.
no, right wing homophobic racists are attributing quotes to her that she never said.
Like this one?
"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race
(Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)
Quote: Originally posted by aCultureWarrior
As mentioned many times before: Martin Luther King Jr., had access to Margaret Sanger's writings and the people she associated with (if he didn't, he could have asked co- Sanger award recipient President Lyndon Baines Johnson to investigate her before accepting the Planned Parenthood/Sanger award).
He did have access to her writings and she was never shy about speaking her mind publicly. King obviously knew about Sanger and planned parenthood - There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger's early efforts." M.L. King 1966
So King knew about Sanger meeting with the Klan and her ties to the Nazi's through eugenics? Thanks for acknowledging that.
Quote: Originally posted by aCultureWarrior
More on that poor misunderstood founder of Planned Parenthood:
The Negro Project was initiated in 1939 by Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. It was a collaborative effort between the American Birth Control League and Sanger’s Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau. For a eugenist, it wasn’t controversial, it was integral to the implementation of eugenics to eliminate the ‘unfit’...
to bad the facts don't support any of this.
Sanger advocated for black doctors and ministers to play leadership roles in the Negro Project to avoid misunderstandings. Lynchings and Jim Crow laws gave blacks good reason to be wary of attempts to limit the number of children they bore. In Harlem, she hired a black doctor and social worker to quell those fears.
as for eugenics: ""the purpose of eugenics was to improve the human race by having people be more healthy through exercise, recreation in parks, marriage to someone free from sexually transmitted diseases, well-baby clinics, immunizations, clean food and water, proper nutrition, non-smoking and drinking." Ruth Eng
Sanger herself opposed racism and segregation, evidence for which can be found through out her writings
Poor misunderstood Marge: She really met with the KKK (and received a dozen invitations afterwards from like minded groups) because she was attempting to talk them out of their racist ideology (while pushing memberships for 24 Hour Fitness clubs).