Margaret Sanger’s Negro Project

By Karen Hold, Historic American Examiner

 

Much is presently being said by the news media about the battle between Susan B. Komen (SBK) and Planned Parenthood (PP).  PP went up in arms when SBK stated they would no longer be sending the $50,000 grant PP had been receiving.  As a result, PP, who stated they need this $50,000 to ‘save women’s lives’ spent $300,000+ on a smear campaign against the Komen Foundation. 

Now a large number of left-aligning individuals – a good portion of them black - are singing the praises of Planned Parenthood, stating the organization is truly concerned with women’s health.  Though there may be a grain of truth deeply embedded in that statement somewhere, if the black participants would take time to research the history of this ‘noble institution,’ they might consider singing a whole different song. (image: Margaret Sanger's Negro Project Credits:  vallee7wordpress.com)

In the early years of the 20th century, Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, aligned herself with a group of eugenicists who strongly espoused the desire for purity of the Aryan race.  Their goal for doing so was to ‘cleanse’ the bloodlines.  One of the methods they chose was to encourage those who were considered by the ‘powers that be’ as ‘fit’ to increase their level of reproduction; while at the same time made an all-out effort to limit the number of births by the so-called ‘inferior’ through the use of segregation, birth control, abortion and sterilization.

Thomas Robert Malthus, a 19th century professor of political economy, was of the opinion a population time bomb was ticking away and would result in the end of the human race unless something was done.  He cited various social problems such as hunger, poverty and deprivation as the basis for his theory.  He also possessed a disdain for the various charities which sought to reach out to those less fortunate with compassion and help.  Malthus’ opinion regarding these groups was they served only to exacerbate the problem, not resolve it.  Malthus wrote in his magnum opus, An Essay on the Principal of Population:

All children born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless room is made for them by the deaths of grown persons.  We should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavoring to impede, the operations of nature in producing this mortality.

In an effort to preserve the existence of Western civilization, anyone who came under the heading of materially poor, physically unfit, racially inferior, spiritually diseased and/or mentally incompetent should be isolated, suppressed and possibly eliminated.  The use of contraception, sterilization and/or abortion was thought to be a necessary implementation to help limit future numbers of these inferior individuals. 

It was into this overt mentality Margaret Sanger immersed herself.  In her publication The Birth Control Review (founded in 1917), she espoused pro-eugenic articles by writers such as Swiss-German psychiatrist Ernst Rudin. 

The dawn of the Great Depression brought with it a double curse for black Americans.  They faced even harsher conditions than their white counterparts due to widespread racial discrimination and prejudice.  In 1929, Sanger’s organization - the American Birth Control League (ABCL), laid the groundwork to establish a birth control clinic in the Harlem area of New York City. 

In 1938, Sanger released Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography, which was published by W. W. Norton of New York.  On page 217, she is quoted as saying, “no matter how early it (i.e., abortion) was performed, it (i.e., abortion) was taking life.”

In 1939, she changed the organization’s name to the Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA), which gave birth to Sanger’s Negro Project.  The goal of this project was to restrict (though many believe the term ‘exterminate’ more suited) the entire black population.  The real shocker in all this is the fact Sanger was able to solicit the help of the black crème de la crème of that time to aide her in these efforts by using such terms as ‘better health’ and ‘family planning’ to convince them.  A number of the blacks she recruited saw her efforts as a means by which their race could attain economic empowerment and thereby win the respect of whites. 

Harlem’s ‘experimental clinic’ opened its doors on November 21, 1930, with the benevolent efforts of many private foundations.  Nathan W. Levin of the Julius Rosewald Fund sent Sanger a cheque with a letter stating, “I am pleased to enclose our cheque in the amount of $2,500, representing the balance of our appropriation to the Harlem Birth Control Clinic for 1930.”  This same organization provided funding for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which has gone down in history as “arguably the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history”.  What started out as an ‘experimental clinic’ has now spread its tentacles of racial discrimination throughout the country and the world, while seizing support from every U.S. taxpayer.   

In 2010, Planned Parenthood opened its fourth ‘Super Center Clinic’ in Houston, TX – 78,000 square feet of space, standing six stories tall and situated on six acres of land facing I-45 S (Gulf Freeway) close to Texas Southern University - a predominantly black college, and a number of black and Latino neighborhoods.  (Maybe PP should be asked how many mammogram machines the organization could have purchased with the funds they spent to buy and furnish this facility.) 

Reverend Johnny M. Hunter, national director for Life, Education and Resource Network (LEARN), the nation’s largest pro-life black organization, states that Sanger’s Negro Project has produced lasting repercussions in the black community.  “We have become victims of genocide by our own hands”.

One can only wonder how many Bill Cosbys, Herman Cains, Clarence Thomases, Tuskegee Airmen, J. C. Watts, George Washington Carvers, Phyllis Wheatlys, and Benjamin Bannekers, to name just a few, have been lost to our nation through the generations as a result of Margaret Sanger’s Negro Project. 

‘Civil rights' doesn't mean anything without a right to life!

                                               Reverend Johnny M. Hunter

 

Comments

[Zachriel]

Some guy accepting the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Margaret Sanger Award:

"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."

What a racist.
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/reverend-martin-luther-king-jr-4728.htm

[Debbie]

Thanks for that quote Zachriel, it adds greatly to this article.

Debbie

[Black Sheep]

I really don't care who gets abortions as long as lots of women get them. Race is unimportant, it's the head count that matters and only the head count. Maybe if we can whittle our global population down to a quarter of what it is now, we can all enjoy better, fuller and far more peaceful lives. We're burying ourselves under our own garbage and wiping out everything on the planet in the process.