The Politically Incorrect Truth About Martin Luther King Jr.

[aCultureWarrior]

Originally Posted by aCultureWarrior
It was no secret what Sanger stood for.

It actually was...

A black columnist writing for Townhall wrote the following:

"There are disturbing questions that have to be asked, such as

“How much did MLK know about this eugenics-birthed organization?”

*Surely he knew that its founder, Margaret Sanger, prided herself in speaking before the KKK on behalf of her organization’s mission.

*He had to have known she proclaimed in her 1920 book, “Women and the New Race” (and throughout her whole life): “Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defective.”

*Did he know about the failed Negro Project where poorer blacks were targeted with birth control policies to “reduce or eliminate” their birth rates?

*He had to be aware that the president of Planned Parenthood, during the time he was given the award, was Alan Guttmacher, former Vice President of the irrefutably racist American Eugenics Society.

*Certainly he knew eugenicists were forcibly sterilizing women, disproportionately black, across the country, work involving many Planned Parenthood affiliates and physicians.

*Did he not know that all of the peaceful protests, sit-ins, and boycotts in the South were aimed at eugenics-based Jim Crow laws…the same warped pseudoscientific racism that birthed Planned Parenthood?"
https://townhall.com/columnists/rya...and-the-social-injustice-of-abortion-n2106223

...in fact some people still debate her involvement in that particular. Otherwise no black person of any stripe would have been caught within a mile of her,

Unless you're someone like King who accepted an award in the Jew hating/negro hating racist's name.


Quote: Originally posted by aCultureWarrior
Except that 12 years before King's death, Planned Parenthood had been working diligently to see that abortion was made legal.

"In 1962, Alan Guttmacher, M.D., begins his 12-year tenure as Planned Parenthood president. He is a strong advocate for a woman's right to safe and legal abortion at a time when Americans are increasingly angered by the dire consequences of abortion restrictions.

King opposed abortion,...

Unless you can come up with evidence (writings, speeches, etc.) where King denounced abortion, the only thing that I've come across is this article from Ebony magazine where King told a young man to move on after the young man admitted that he had committed a crime (abortion was illegal at the time).

Question: About two years ago, I was going with a young lady who became pregnant. I refused to marry her. As a result, I was direct& responsible for a crime. It was not until a month later that I realized the awful thing I had done. I begged her to forgive me, to come back, but she has not answered my letters. The thing stays on my mind. What can I do? I have prayed for forgiveness.


[Martin Luther King Jr.'s] Answer: You have made a mistake. This you admit. Your admitting this fact is very wholesome, for it is the first step in the process of repentance and personal- ity integration. One can never rectify a mistake until he admits that a mistake has been made. Now that you have prayed for forgiveness and acknowledged your mistake, you must turn your vision to the future. You must not become morbidly absorbed in a past mistake but you must seek to outlive it by creative living in the future. Now that you have repented, don’t concentrate on what you failed to do in the past, but what you are determined to do in the future. This sense of peni- tence and this creative living will do more to cause the young lady to forgive you than anything you can say in words.
https://swap.stanford.edu/201412182...ydocuments/Vol4/June-1958_AdviceForLiving.pdf

"Creative living"?

Relating to or involving the use of the imagination or original ideas to create something.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/creative

One would think that a Christian Reverend such as King would advised the young man to turn to Holy Scripture for all answers in life, not "creative living".

 

[Crucifer]

Capitalism is inherently exploitative. And unsustainable.

This is why some Americans fear socialism so much. It points to the unspoken but well-known hazards of a capitalist system.

Few citizens realize that libraries, pollice & fire departments, our highway system, the GI Bill, our own military, the postal system, Congressional health care, public schools, all elected senators and congresspeople, corporate bailouts, etc. etc.

ALL examples of Democratic Socialism.

Socialist Capitalism

Social Democracy

That isn't just a good idea but an absolute necessity.
We won't survive without it.

It's also the Christian thing to do. Jesus calls for this gov't- it should've began with Sanders, maybe it will happen next election.

 

[Town Heretic]

A black columnist writing for Townhall wrote the following:

Well, if someone who is black wrote something on the internet it must be taken seriously as the voice of---the author. lain:

Ryan Bomberger is a writer from the right, skin color notwithstanding. And as I noted with Booker T. Washington, there has always been a diversity of opinion on the approach to civil rights equality and the relation of blacks to power.

Bomberger writes things as telling as, "An inarguably leftis news media refuses to tell the truth about _____. Just fill in that blank."

So, color aside (and somewhere MLK Jr. must be both smiling and sighing) this guy might as well be wearing his MAGA hat and working at Fox.

"There are disturbing questions that have to be asked, such as

What he should say is, "Given my bias, I'm about to make inference and insult using funny punctuation and set them on a foundation that is no more self-evident, despite my assertions to the contrary, than my bias is hidden by them." Because that's what he's actually doing...continuing then.

“How much did MLK know about this eugenics-birthed organization?”

Likely not very much. He didn't even attend the ceremony to accept the award personally.

*Surely he knew that its founder, Margaret Sanger, prided herself in speaking before the KKK on behalf of her organization’s mission.

Rather, it is contrary to reason to suggest or wonder if King, a black man and central leader in the Civil Rights Movement would have accepted, directly or indirectly, an award from someone he knew to be sympathetic with the aims and views of an organization antithetical to his views and aims.

But, asking the question does a good deal to underscore the bias and problem of the inquirer.

He had to be aware that the president of Planned Parenthood, during the time he was given the award, was Alan Guttmacher, former Vice President of the irrefutably racist American Eugenics Society.

Same sort of answer. Coupled with the understanding that this was long before the age of Google and easy searches for the who and what of things. Guttmacher was well known to people interested in his position, but likely not falling from the tongues of those who were not. He'd been president for three or four years when PP decided to recognize King.

Unless you're someone like King who accepted an award in the Jew hating/negro hating racist's name.

The irrationality of what you and Mr. Bomberger have to accept is almost as staggering as it is hard to take seriously. No, it would be inviting rejection and division within the community he served, would be counter to his self-interest.

There's literally no reasonable way to believe this or pose the question, unless you recognize the audience you're posing it to isn't inclined to think beyond the appearance of a thing that supports their preconceptions and desire.

Unless you can come up with evidence (writings, speeches, etc.) where King denounced abortion, the only thing that I've come across is this article from Ebony magazine where King told a young man to move on after the young man admitted that he had committed a crime (abortion was illegal at the time).

Rather, if you're going to suggest that he held anything other than a rejection of the then outlawed and opposed notion of abortion you'll have to produce writing to that point. It is inconsistent with his position in any number of ways, with the approach of a man who believed, "“The Negro cannot win if he is willing to sacrifice the futures of his children for immediate personal comfort and safety. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

To say nothing of the quote you provide. Who says anyone should pray for forgiveness for advancing a thing they agree is a good idea? Again, it would be contrary to reason.

 

[aCultureWarrior]

Now that it's been established that Martin Luther King Jr. had to have known about the racist eugenics policies of Margaret Sanger, Alan Guttmacher and Planned Parenthood, let's get to the question that I asked and the answer I'm dying to see:

Quote: Originally posted by aCultureWarrior
Unless you can come up with evidence (writings, speeches, etc.) where King denounced abortion, the only thing that I've come across is this article from Ebony magazine where King told a young man to move on after the young man admitted that he had committed a crime (abortion was illegal at the time).

“The Negro cannot win if he is willing to sacrifice the futures of his children for immediate personal comfort and safety. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

And here I was hoping for something like:

'Abortion on demand is morally wrong in the eyes of God.'

But then, it's been established as well that Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't a fan of God (other pagan gods yes, God of the Holy Bible, no).

 

[Crucifer]

Well, if someone who is black wrote something on the internet it must be taken seriously as the voice of---the author. lain:

Society is so screwed up right now that to be white and accept other races is to be a sellout- you're a white uncle tom for caring about minorities.
I voted fr Trump because I fell for the guise of him wanting to bring the country together- he's done nothing but further divide it.
I'll never make that mistake again. Sanders could have been the President and we'd be fine right now.

 

[Town Heretic]

And here I was hoping for something like: 'Abortion on demand is morally wrong in the eyes of God.'

All evidence to the contrary. It's more likely that you're disappointed you couldn't find a writing by him in support. I note you step over the quote I offered, the one you found and the reasonable inference to maintain your apparent and actual hope. More's the pity.

Otherwise, you won't find and shouldn't expect to find a lot of people writing the line you penned from at the time, given abortion wasn't lawful.

But then, it's been established as well that Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't a fan of God (other pagan gods yes, God of the Holy Bible, no).

But then all that really means is that you choose to believe it, sadly.

 

[ok doser]

Society is so screwed up right now that to be white and accept other races is to be a sellout- you're a white uncle tom for caring about minorities.

that may be your experience but it's certainly not mine

but then i've been blessed to have always lived in a historically progressive region - a major center of the abolitionist movement and the birthplace of equal rights for women

 

[aCultureWarrior]

Originally Posted by aCultureWarrior
And here I was hoping for something like: 'Abortion on demand is morally wrong in the eyes of God.'

All evidence to the contrary.

So a response to a young man whose girlfriend had an abortion where King wrote about "creative living" is evidence that he was against abortion?

A quote where King stated

"The Negro cannot win if he is willing to sacrifice the futures of his children for immediate personal comfort and safety. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

is evidence that King was against abortion?

Quote: Originally posted by aCultureWarrior
But then, it's been established as well that Martin Luther King Jr. wasn't a fan of God (other pagan gods yes, God of the Holy Bible, no).

But then all that really means is that you choose to believe it, sadly.

Amongst other pagan gods and false prophets who King admired, he liked Gandhi a lot, you know the Buddhist/Hindu who left his wife and children for a muscle queer.
http://theologyonline.com/showthrea...ther-King-Jr&p=5172169&viewfull=1#post5172169
http://theologyonline.com/showthrea...ther-King-Jr&p=5172753&viewfull=1#post5172753

 

[Crucifer]

that may be your experience but it's certainly not mine

but then i've been blessed to have always lived in a historically progressive region - a major center of the abolitionist movement and the birthplace of equal rights for women

I live in Richmond, Virginia.
There's a very large black presence here ; also a lot of immigrants.
It could be I suppose a bit anecdotal- around here it's just a fact of life to deal with minorities.

 

[Town Heretic]

So a response to a young man whose girlfriend had an abortion where King wrote about "creative living" is evidence that he was against abortion?

In part, sure. As I noted in one of the questions you ran from like Jesse Owens at the gun, you don't typically talk about repenting something that isn't sinful. And then there was the other quote I gave you about his feeling for black children.

A quote where King stated

"The Negro cannot win if he is willing to sacrifice the futures of his children for immediate personal comfort and safety. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

is evidence that King was against abortion?

A man concerned with the sacrifice of the futures of children? Seems in line to me, but again, you don't really need evidence that someone wasn't an elephant if there's no reason to believe they ever were. And the willingness to ask the question isn't evidence of anything more than the inquirer's threshold of objectivity and incredulity.

 

[Kit the Coyote]

Now that it's been established that....

Isn't assuming your position is established when it is still disputed a fallacy of some sort?

 

[Arthur Brain]

Isn't assuming your position is established when it is still disputed a fallacy of some sort?

Typical of aCW's MO. Assert something that's generally derived from wingnut source material and then parrot about how the "truth" of such dubious claims has somehow been established. He'll lap up any source just as long as they fit in with his confirmation bias. Most scholars discredit the revisionist bunk of "The Pink Swastika" as a case in point. aCW thinks it's proof verbatim that Hitler and most of the SS were gay...

He's not exactly a candidate for MENSA...

 

[aCultureWarrior]

Quote: Originally posted by aCultureWarrior
Now that it's been established that Martin Luther King Jr. knew exactly what Margaret Sanger, Alan Guttmacher, Planned Parenthood and the American Eugenics Society stood for...

Isn't assuming your position is established when it is still disputed a fallacy of some sort?

I did my best to give King the benefit of the doubt by acknowledging that he might have been so busy beating up prostitutes and sodomizing Ralph Abernathy (and most likely his openly homosexual communist associate Bayard Rustin), associating with mass murdering communists, starting riots that resulted destruction across America, plagiarizing other peoples work, worshipping pagan gods, etc. etc. etc. that he lived under a rock and knew nothing about Sanger, Guttmacher, Planned Parenthood and the American Eugenics Society.

While the evidence shows that King's wife and confidante' Coretta had been and up until her death an active member of the pro abortion National Organization of Women, let's look at the co-recipients of the first Margaret Sanger/Planned Parenthood baby butcher award and see if they too were "anti abortion" :

1966
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
General William H. Draper
Carl G. Hartman, MD
President Lyndon Baines Johnson
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/campaigns/ppfa-margaret-sanger-award-winners

While I could easily spend a few minutes finding out the other 3 recipients pro abortion stance in latter years, how about I allow you to show the readers of this thread evidence that they weren't?

In other words:

Planned Parenthood knew exactly who they were giving their prestigious award to.

 

[aCultureWarrior]

A review of Margaret Sanger's connection with the Nazi's:

–Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Review
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, has an ignoble legacy as a racist who addressed the Ku Klux Klan and initiated a Negro Project to reduce the population of poor, uneducated African Americans whom she considered unfit to reproduce themselves. This Margaret Sanger—the real Margaret Sanger—is completely whitewashed in Parenthood propaganda, which deceitfully portrays Sanger as a champion of reproductive “choice.”

Even more incriminating than Sanger’s racism, however, is her close association with Nazism. Sanger was part of a community of American progressives who championed two remedies to get rid of “unfit” populations. The first was forced sterilization, which was Sanger’s preferred solution.
Sanger wanted to make it look like the sterilizations were voluntary. In a 1932 article, Sanger called for women to be segregated from the larger community onto “farms and homesteads” where they would be “taught to work under competent instructors” and prevented from reproducing “for the period of their entire lives.” If the women didn’t want to live this way, they could get out of it by consenting to be sterilized.2
The other progressive solution was “euthanasia,” which basically involved killing off the sick, the aged, and the physically and mentally disabled. One of Sanger’s colleagues, the California progressive Paul Popenoe, called for “lethal chambers” so that large numbers of “unfit” people could be systematically lined up and killed.3

The Nazis learned about these American programs, and enthusiastically adopted them. As Edwin Black documents in his book The War Against the Weak, the Nazi sterilization law of 1933 and the subsequent Nazi euthanasia laws were both based on blueprints drawn up by Sanger, Popenoe and other American progressives.4
In fact, the “lethal chambers” the Nazis employed using carbon monoxide gas to kill off “imbeciles” and other undesirables were the first death camps. Later these very facilities were expanded into Hitler’s “final solution” for the Jews, using many of the same medical personnel who manned the euthanasia killing facilities.
Sanger’s close associates Clarence Gamble, who funded Sanger and spoke at her conferences, and Lothrop Stoddard, who published in Sanger’s magazine and served on the board of her American Birth Control League, both knew about the Nazi sterilization and euthanasia programs and praised them. Stoddard traveled to Germany where he met with top Nazi officials and even secured an audience with Hitler. His 1940 book Into the Darkness is a paean to Hitler and Nazi eugenics.5

Sanger too was on board. In 1933, Sanger’s magazine Birth Control Review published an article on “Eugenic Sterilization” by Ernst Rudin, chief architect of the Nazi sterilization program and mentor of Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor at Auschwitz. Sanger’s magazine also reprinted a pamphlet that Rudin had prepared for British eugenicists.
Writing in 1938, when the Nazi program was in full swing, Sanger urged America to follow Hitler’s example. Using the language of Social Darwinism—the same language that Hitler uses in Mein Kampf—Sanger wrote, “In animal industry, the poor stock is not allowed to breed. In gardens, the weeds are kept down.” America, Sanger concluded, must learn from the Nazis and carry out nature’s own mandate of getting rid of “human weeds.”6

Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/09/01/exclusive-dsouza-the-hitler-sanger-connection/

This information, if not known to the recipients of the Margaret Sanger Award, was easily accessible.

 

[aCultureWarrior]

In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. made clear that he agreed that Sanger’s life’s work was anything but inhumane. In 1966, when King received Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award in Human Rights, he praised her contributions to the black community. “There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts,” he said. “…Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision.”
http://time.com/4081760/margaret-sanger-history-eugenics/

 

[aCultureWarrior]

Public Statement by eight Alabama clergymen
Denouncing Martin Luther King's efforts, April 12, 1963

On April 12, 1963, while Martin Luther King was in the Birmingham jail because of his desegregation demonstrations, eight prominent Alabama clergymen published the following statement in the local newspapers urging blacks to withdraw their support from Martin Luther King and his demonstrations. Although they were in basic agreement with King that segregation should end. They accused King of being an outsider, of using "extreme measures" that incite "hatred and violence", that King's demonstrations are "unwise and untimely", and that the racial issues should instead be "properly pursued in the courts." Four days later, King wrote his Letter from the Birmingham Jail in reply.
PUBLIC STATEMENT BY EIGHT ALABAMA CLERGYMEN
April 12, 1963
We the undersigned clergymen are among those who, in January, issued "An Appeal for Law and Order and Common Sense," in dealing with racial problems in Alabama. We expressed understanding that honest convictions in racial matters could properly be pursued in the courts, but urged that decisions of those courts should in the meantime be peacefully obeyed.
Since that time there had been some evidence of increased forbearance and a willingness to face facts. Responsible citizens have undertaken to work on various problems which cause racial friction and unrest. In Birmingham, recent public events have given indication that we all have opportunity for a new constructive and realistic approach to racial problems.
However, we are now confronted by a series of demonstrations by some of our Negro citizens, directed and led in part by outsiders. We recognize the natural impatience of people who feel that their hopes are slow in being realized. But we are convinced that these demonstrations are unwise and untimely.
We agree rather with certain local Negro leadership which has called for honest and open negotiation of racial issues in our area. And we believe this kind of facing of issues can best be accomplished by citizens of our own metropolitan area, white and Negro, meeting with their knowledge and experience of the local situation. All of us need to face that responsibility and find proper channels for its accomplishment.
Just as we formerly pointed out that "hatred and violence have no sanction in our religious and political traditions," we also point out that such actions as incite to hatred and violence, however technically peaceful those actions may be, have not contributed to the resolution of our local problems. We do not believe that these days of new hope are days when extreme measures are justified in Birmingham.
We commend the community as a whole, and the local news media and law enforcement in particular, on the calm manner in which these demonstrations have been handled. We urge the public to continue to show restraint should the demonstrations continue, and the law enforcement official to remain calm and continue to protect our city from violence.
We further strongly urge our own Negro community to withdraw support from these demonstrations, and to unite locally in working peacefully for a better Birmingham. When rights are consistently denied, a cause should be pressed in the courts and in negotiations among local leaders, and not in the streets. We appeal to both our white and Negro citizenry to observe the principles of law and order and common sense.
C. C. J. Carpenter, D.D., LL.D.
Bishop of Alabama
Joseph A. Durick, D.D.
Auxiliary Bishop, Diocese of Mobile, Birmingham
Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman
Temple Emanu-El, Birmingham, Alabama
Bishop Paul Hardin
Bishop of the Alabama-West Florida Conference
Bishop Nolan B. Harmon
Bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the Methodist Church
George M. Murray, D.D., LL.D.
Bishop Coadjutor, Episcopal Diocese of Alabama
Edward V. Ramage
Moderator, Synod of the Alabama Presbyterian Church in the United States
Earl Stallings
Pastor, First Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama
https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/09a/mlk_day/statement.html

 

[Town Heretic]

In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. made clear that he agreed that Sanger’s life’s work was anything but inhumane. In 1966, when King received Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award in Human Rights, he praised her contributions to the black community. “There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts,” he said. “…Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision.”
http://time.com/4081760/margaret-sanger-history-eugenics/

What's funny about the link and the article is that it largely repudiates most of your claims.

From that article:

Historians and scholars who’ve examined Sanger’s correspondence, as Salon reported in 2011, challenge those who call the activist racist.

Much of the controversy stems from a 1939 letter in which Sanger outlined her plan to reach out to black leaders — specifically ministers — to help dispel community suspicions about the family planning clinics she was opening in the South.

“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,” she wrote. It was, as the Washington Post called it, an “inartfully written” sentence, but one that, in context, describes the sort of preposterous allegations she feared — not her actual mission. The irony is that it has been used to propagate those very allegations. Cruz’s letter to the director of the National Portrait Gallery, for example, quotes only the first half of the sentence.

And if you search for the speech in full delivered by King's wife you find the context for your snippet:

"There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger's early efforts. She, like we, saw the horrifying conditions of ghetto life. Like we, she knew that all of society is poisoned by cancerous slums. Like we, she was a direct actionist - a nonviolent resister.

She was willing to accept scorn and abuse until the truth she saw was revealed to the millions. At the turn of the century she went into the slums and set up a birth control clinic, and for this deed she went to jail because she was violating an unjust law. Yet the years have justified her actions. She launched a movement which is obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions. Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision; for without them there would have been no beginning. Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by nonviolent direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her. Negroes have no mere academic nor ordinary interest in family planning. They have a special and urgent concern."

 

[aCultureWarrior]

What's funny about the link and the article is that it largely repudiates most of your claims.

From that article:

Historians and scholars who’ve examined Sanger’s correspondence, as Salon reported in 2011, challenge those who call the activist racist.

Much of the controversy stems from a 1939 letter in which Sanger outlined her plan to reach out to black leaders — specifically ministers — to help dispel community suspicions about the family planning clinics she was opening in the South.

I took a bit of truth from the leftwing Time Magazine article to make my point.

That would be the same Time Magazine who praised Fidel Castro by calling him "The George Washington of Cuba".

So you don't think Sanger was a racist?

 

[WizardofOz]

I took a bit of truth from the leftwing Time Magazine article to make my point.

That would be the same Time Magazine who praised Fidel Castro by calling him "The George Washington of Cuba".

That would have been Ed Sullivan, a right-wing New York Daily News columnist

Ed Sullivan, a right-wing New York Daily News columnist, flew down to Havana and interviewed Fidel on Jan. 11, 1959. Sullivan assured Castro that “The people of the United States have great admiration for you and your men because you are in the real American tradition of George Washington.” Fidel later appeared in his military fatigues on Sullivan’s CBS show, one of the nation’s leading popular entertainment television programs, and viewed by tens of millions of people. Said Sullivan, while this writer was watching the show in awe, “Ladies and gentlemen of America, I want to introduce you to Fidel Castro, the George Washington of Cuba.” Fidel smiled but did not speak. The live audience thundered with applause.

 

[Town Heretic]

I took a bit of truth from the leftwing Time Magazine article to make my point.

Rather, it took truncating a thing that didn't actually serve your point. And that was funny.

That would be the same Time Magazine who praised Fidel Castro by calling him "The George Washington of Cuba".

As WoZ points out, Fidel fooled many a soul, right and left.

So you don't think Sanger was a racist?

I think it's difficult to believe that anyone comfortable with accepting an invitation from a group of women affiliated with the Klan wouldn't have issues on the point, but then as far as I can tell she only did that once. And maybe she did it to advance what she counted wisdom, even among people she may have counted fools. Who needs it more?

She undoubtedly believed in eugenics, but that's not necessarily the same animal as racism, except to those who set the standard by race. Du Bois, a black writer, thinker, and advocate, subscribed to many of its tenets. There were doubtless some racists who latched on and wrote about eugenics, trying to make the two strains integral, but they simply weren't.

Jean Baker, who wrote a book about the life of Sanger, has said that Sanger was ahead of the curve in opposing segregation of races. Edwin Black, who wrote War Against the Weak, an attack on eugenics, said of Sanger, "[She] was no racist. Nor was she anti-Semitic."