“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…In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.” (Sanger 366)
The above quote is taken from the autobiography of Margaret Sanger, the sometimes revered mother of American abortion. She is also the founder of Planned Parenthood, an organization that has come under scrutiny recently for its use of federal tax dollars in financing the abortions that generate the bulk of its revenue, causing public friction for its supporting groups like Susan G. Komen and the Girl Scouts.
Though a highly misunderstood figure, Sanger is often quickly associated with “progressivism.” But considering that the Ku Klux Klan would be considered anything but “progressive” by today’s standards, this quote immediately begs the question- why were the women of the KKK so attracted to her message? These women, predominantly Protestant Christians in Sanger’s time, would have generally rejected progressive or scientific social initiatives. Yet they, much like the liberal and commonly unreligious advocates of Planned Parenthood would later do, found Sanger worthy of admiration.
Lloyd Marcus, author of Confessions of a Black Conservative, provides some perspective to address this peculiarity, and shares some truths about what the left’s devotion to abortion has wrought, specifically in regard to American blacks.
He writes:
“Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.” So said Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. Seventy-eight percent of Planned Parenthood clinics are in black neighborhoods. Blacks make up only 12% of the population, but 35% of America’s aborted babies are black. Half of black pregnancies end in abortion. Is this an intentional genocide? (Emphasis added)
”The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb,” according to Pastor Clenard Childress, Jr. Blacks are the only minority in America experiencing a declining population.
So why would Obama, the NAACP, Rev. Sharpton, and other black leftists be passionate supporters of Planned Parenthood? Why did Al Sharpton threaten to protest a pro-life billboard which exposed the devastatingly high number of black abortions?
Why, indeed. The application of ethics and morality in the abortion issue may vary from person to person, and debating this might require the most complex human philosophy, but the specificity of the abortion agenda’s targets in the black community could be recognized even by a child.
These trends are unpleasant to progressive sensibilities, and they therefore will be ignored or dismissed as false by those unwaveringly devoted to the notion that a woman’s right to “choose” is the crux of the debate. But the extent to which these disturbing trends are hidden and avoided by abortion advocates gives the pro-choice agenda a decidedly insidious nature.
Abortion advocates in Washington, most notably San Francisco’s resident crooked Catholic Nancy Pelosi, have for years prattled about the long-term savings to be had through federal spending on contraception and abortion. The future public cost of education and welfare, they argue, will be significantly reduced if the welfare class can more readily afford and acquire abortions. So the fact that the abortion agenda has a targeted demographic should not, in itself, be surprising- implicit in these past suggestions is that the fertility of the lower economic rungs of society be cauterized.
There is an intense irony in the poor accepting Democrats like Pelosi as their champion in spite of the crowing about the need to sterilize them, but perhaps even more puzzling, and certainly tragic, is the fact that Barack Obama garnered 95% of the black vote in 2008 while promoting a wholesale devotion to a practice that proves uniquely destructive to black Americans.
Half of the black children conceived in this country are aborted before reaching our world, and they are aborted at levels nearly three times their demographic representation. Lloyd Marcus ponders whether this is intentional, but the reality is that it doesn’t matter whether it is intentional or not. Either by design or inadvertently due to social realities, the evidence conclusively shows that the left is fulfilling Margaret Sanger’s vision of systematically exterminating blacks, which should reveal even to the most naive abortion advocate why her message was so incredibly attractive to the KKK in her time. In fact, it would even be reasonable to assume that those same women who once hung on Sanger’s every word might today support Planned Parenthood in their efforts, unintentional or not.
The fact that today’s modern left doesn’t likewise profess the racist intentions of the KKK or Margaret Sanger does not change the fact that the result of its continuing quest to promote federally-sponsored abortion and Planned Parenthood, if one appraises a child in the womb to have the smallest ounce of humanity, does indeed border genocide.
William Sullivan is a frequent contributor to American Thinker, and has been featured at FrontPage Magazine and World Net Daily. His blog can be found at: http://politicalpalaverblog.blogspot.com and he can now be followed on Twitter.
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Margaret Sanger was peachy, by all accounts.
Viet71 (Diary) Thursday, February 16th at 5:09PM EDT (link)Abortion is the #1 issue in American politics, because of the way it drives a wedge between the Right and Left.
Just before the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, the states were dealing with abortion. Twenty-six states allowed abortion under varying conditions. The states had moved considerably in a pro-abortion direction since about 1960, due to changing mores and the pill. Even Alabama allowed incest under certain circumstances.
The state laws were not racially or otherwise discriminatorily based. They reflected local politics.
Roe was and remains a disaster. It has created a gaping political divide and done NOTHING to improve the lives of women and other humans.
Not incest...sorry!
Viet71 (Diary) Thursday, February 16th at 5:11PM EDT (link)Abortion (in the case of incest, rape).
Sanger was a socialistic, racist, Neitzchian POS
kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, February 16th at 5:15PM EDT (link)And it is absolutely revolting that the truth about her is not taught to people.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
Good old maggie was a prototype
jdw4america (Diary) Thursday, February 16th at 5:27PM EDT (link)Like all liberals since, she reduced poverty by killing off as many of the poor as she could. She was old school though, she convinced people that they really wanted to be victims of genocide. Just ask barry how we roll now. If o-care isn’t repealed, nobody has to even think about being old and poor – the death panels will do it for us.
Thank you, thank you, thank you...
daviddlpe Thursday, February 16th at 6:22PM EDT (link)…for writing so eloquently what needs to be preached from every rooftop. These 3 organizations and ideals have been hand-in-hand for decades. The Klan was founded by the democrat party. Abortion is promulgated by the democrat party. Both took direct aim at Black Americans to keep them down, yet they continue to dutifully support the party that kills them and keeps them in chains.
Excellent article!
David L Pipkin
The Northern Klan of Nativist America in 1920's was centered in Indiana and Maine, the heart of the Republican Party
lizzie Friday, February 17th at 10:36AM EDT (link)By 1920, Ku Klux Klan membership in America was only about two thousand. By 1925, membership had swelled to between three and six million, primarily “small business owners, merchants, professionals, skilled laborers, and land-owning farmers” in states like Indiana, Maine, and Oregon. This revival was still based on white supremacy, but the “venom was directed toward immigrants, Catholics, Jews, socialists, agrarian radicals, organized labor, urban machine politics, big business, vice, and immorality.” The new Klan was more urban than rural, with the “greatest appeal in states that were actually experiencing a [three-way interaction] combination of population growth, manufacturing increase, and agricultural [land value] decline.” The northern Klan was nominally Republican, as were northern African-Americans, whose numbers had grown substantially after 1919, another uneasy coalition. [source: Rory McVeigh. “Structural Incentives for Conservative Mobilization: Power Devaluation and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1925”, Social Forces, Vol. 77, No. 4 (June 1999), page1463.
and, just to try to stop the slander against Margaret Sanger because this post represents a slander that is so NOT TRUE:
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), is the person most identified with the modern birth control movement. She founded the New York Birth Control League (NYBCL) in 1914, when both Federal and many state laws defined related information and products as obscene and immoral, and thus illegal, throughout the United States (U.S.). The American Birth Control League in 1921, and the Planned Parenthood Foundation in 1942, succeeded the NBCL. Her mission to secure the freedom for women all over the world to control their reproductive life, the most divisive political issue in the U.S. since slavery, continues today. By the end of her life, this mission brought new options in contraception, funding research and development of spermicides in the 1920’s and the birth control pill in the 1950’s, and the first domestic manufacture of the diaphragm. Planned Parenthood’s sponsorship of the U.S. Supreme Court case Griswold vs. Connecticut became the first interpretation of the U.S. Constitution to include a woman’s right to privacy and thus choice in her reproductive life, decided by the Warren court a few months before Sanger’s death, and the basis for Roe vs. Wade in 1973, which extended that right of privacy to abortion.
Between 1912 and the 1920’s, she shifted her base and strategy from the direct action of the radical labor left, to judicial activism supported by prominent clubwomen, libertarian backers of free speech, doctors, and nativist proponents of eugenics in order to change the meaning of the obscenity laws that inhibited transmission of birth control information and products in the U.S.
The tragic death of one patient, Sadie Sachs, from a second self-induced abortion after vainly pleading for information on birth control subsequent to the first one, was Margaret’s epiphany in 1912 when she was a nurse working for the Henry Street Settlement.
The Federal Criminal Code Section 211 from 1873 reads:
“Every obscene, lewd, or lascivious, and every filthy book, pamphlet, picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other publication of an indecent character, and every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for preventing conception or producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use; and every article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing which is advertised or described in a manner calculated to lead another to use or apply it for preventing conception or producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral purpose; and every written or printed card, letter, circular, book, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind giving information directly or indirectly, where, or how, or of whom, or by what means any of the hereinbefore-mentioned matters, articles, or things may be obtained or made, or where or by whom any act or operation of any kind for the procuring or producing of abortion will be done or performed or how or by what means conception may be prevented or abortion may be produced, whether sealed or unsealed; and every letter, packet, or package, or other mail matter containing any filthy, vile, or indecent thing, device, or substance and every paper, writing, advertisement or representation that any article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing may, or can be, used or applied, for preventing conception or producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral purpose; and every description calculated to induce or incite a person to so use or apply any such article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing, is hereby declared to be a non-mailable matter and shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or by any letter carrier. Whoever shall knowingly deposit or cause to be deposited for mailing or delivery, anything declared by this section to be non-mailable, or shall knowingly take, or cause the same to be taken, from the mails for the purpose of circulating or disposing thereof, shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
Yes, in graduate school I wrote papers on Calvin Coolidge (History of the Presidency), Margaret Sanger (American Women’s History), and Margaret Thatcher (20th century British History).
It is quite amazing what one can learn from the serious study of history.
Little long for me...but I get the grad school part.
Viet71 (Diary) Friday, February 17th at 3:23PM EDT (link)Lots of papers, research, writing; that sort of thing.
Margaret Sanger favored eugenics and thinning the ranks of blacks. That’s fact.
Birth control is another matter.
That's all very nice...
wsullivan (Diary) Friday, February 17th at 3:43PM EDT (link)But how is what I’ve written here unjust slander, lizzie? The gist of the diatribe above seems to be: “Well, this is all a lie because the KKK was comprised of Republicans, not rural Christians (Democrats) at that time, so they were more likely to accept Sanger on the science, cuz they didn’t hate black people THAT much at that time. Oh, and abortion is justified.”
Sanger’s initiative was about social engineering, designed to breed blacks and the genetically unfit out of existence- or perhaps a better way to put it, stop them from breeding their way into a continued existence. Not once do you refute the fact that she supported this course of action, and I suspect for good reason- you can’t, because it’s firmly supported fact, taken from the horse’s mouth. And your argument that blacks were no longer the central focus of the KKK’s ire is laughable. You admit that the KKK was still predicated on white supremacy, and they clearly would have agreed with Sanger’s position that the white race is indeed superior to other races and that they should be in a position to manipulate the breeding of lesser races. So just what, exactly, are you arguing?
The correlation between Sanger and the KKK in her time is such that it doesn’t matter their political affiliation- the point is that her message was so attractive to the KKK because of the racially prejudiced underbelly of eugenics (which Sanger clearly endorsed) that called for the eradication of the racially unfit. And if you are indeed so well-versed in history, lizzie, you will note that this is precisely the ideology that, when put into strict practice under National Socialism, led to the Holocaust. Indeed, quite amazing what one can learn from the serious study of history, but there is infinite value in keeping what one learns in the proper context. Try looking at this article again without the staunch emotional tether to abortion practices, you may see it differently.
As to the claim that abortion is justified or necessary, you should read more closely. I say clearly that the morality of abortion will vary from person to person and that it will be the subject of debate. What cannot be debated, and why you avoid it like the plague in the refutation of my article, is that the modern Democratic Party is attributing to the decline of the black community’s population by playing on your emotions and legislating the subsidization of abortion in such a way that disproportionately affects blacks. And Sanger, without the slightest need for unjust slander or hyperbole, advocated this. And THAT is why the KKK aligned with her.
the slander is that President Theodore Roosevelt was a leading proponent of eugenics
lizzie Saturday, February 18th at 12:25PM EDT (link)as were many otherwise respectable Americans and others.
The slander is Lloyd Marcus claim that Maragaret Sanger EVER said ANYTHING like “Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.”
ZERO evidence.
Margaret Sanger fought to make contraception legal, and accessible to all women, primarily to stop poor women from dying from self-induced abortions.
The Northern Klan of 1915-1925 was mainstream nativist white protestant Republicans that was most popular in places where there were few black Americans. The Northern Klan believed the American “race” was being polluted by ethnic Catholics and eastern European Jews who had flooded in by the millions between 1880-1920. That is why immigration was severely restricted by new Federal laws in 1923-24.
My emotions are NOT involved – I find it reprehensible how easy it is for a slander to be believed by anyone.
Reading this is no different than the Ron Paul supporters who believe the Federal Reserve is “a privately owned corporation secretly owned by ‘foreign bankers’ (code for Rothschilds which is universal code for Jews!)”
That was Henry Ford, Senior’s firm belief, and his publication of “The International Jew” was far more helpful to Hitler than anything from the eugenics movement. Henry Ford, Senior almost ran for the GOP nomination in 1924.
This diary is embarrassing for RedState.
Deflect, deflect, deflect
wsullivan (Diary) Saturday, February 18th at 1:27PM EDT (link)Never said anything like that? “The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. And 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.” I.e, if some among the Negro population become wise to the aim of the “Negro Project,” conniving religious hucksters could put their minds at ease. You will deny this quote also, or deny its meaning? If so, you are being intellectually dishonest.
Lizzie, you’re obviously married to the idea that Sanger was a saint, though evidence clearly doesn’t support this. And because of it, your arguments fall well short. Arguments like, “Sure, Sanger was a proponent of eugenics and sterilizing the economically, racially, and genetically unfit, but so was Teddy Roosevelt, and lots of other people.” And the equally weak rebuttal that, “Sure, she espoused ideas that led to the Holocaust, but not as closely as Henry Ford and some other people.” I don’t support Ron Paul’s position on the Fed, but your reasoning to accuse them of anti-Semitism is MUCH flimsier than my appraisal of the obvious meaning of the above Sanger quote.
I find it sad that reason cannot penetrate for you. My one consolation, however, is that Sanger and Planned Parenthood are being exposed for what they are for millions in a reignited debate that was once “settled precedent.” We should have the debate about contraception and abortion as an issue of federalism, not as an immediate subsidy based upon federal tyranny. Planned Parenthood was founded with the goal to “stop the multiplication of the unfit.” If you cannot look at the data and see that this effort has hit hardest the economically challenged and black community- both as Sanger decreed was a necessity- well, there’s just no helping you.
why does RedState allow this slander and lies?
lizzie Saturday, February 18th at 5:44PM EDT (link)Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), is the person most identified with the modern birth control movement. She founded the New York Birth Control League (NYBCL) in 1914, when both Federal and many state laws defined related information and products as obscene and immoral, and thus illegal, throughout the United States (U.S.). The American Birth Control League in 1921, and the Planned Parenthood Foundation in 1942, succeeded the NBCL.
Her mission to secure the freedom for women all over the world to control their reproductive life, the most divisive political issue in the U.S. since slavery,
GET YOUR CHRONOLOGY and FACTS CORRECT.
And, Sadie Sachs was married with children. They were so poor they could not feed another child.
After her first self-induced abortion, Sadie Saxcchs asked the doctor sent by the Henry Street Settlement about preventing another preganancy. He told her to make her husband Jake “sleep on the tenement roof”.
Just a word of advice: If there is a cohort that wants to cut off government funding for Planned Parenthood circa 2012, go 100% on that because Government should not be subsidizing health services of any kind.
But, conservatives do themselves no favor by fabricating lies about Margaret Sanger.
Careful – you are treading straight into the Coolidge White House, and I defend Calvin Coolidge as strongly as I defend Margaret Sanger’s legacy.
Appears Margaret Sanger was complex.
Viet71 (Diary) Saturday, February 18th at 6:16PM EDT (link)Lizzie, you maintain her mission was to give women worldwide control over their reproductive lives. You downplay her KKK involvement. You attack wsullivan on the grounds of slander when he points out Sanger’s attitudes towards blacks and eugenics.
ver.
I’ll grant Margaret Sanger was complex.
No slander or lies by wsullivan, howe
There aren't lots of things I sure of, but I am absolutely sure of this
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, February 18th at 8:02PM EDT (link)Margaret Sanger is currently residing the very hottest corner of Hell. Hitler and Stalin both have cooler spots.
And lizzie, you are an absolutely brain dead, amoral, disgusting pile of excrement completely unfit for human contact.
wsullivan: STOP putting quotation marks around YOUR fabrications of what you think I wrote with other words
lizzie Saturday, February 18th at 5:54PM EDT (link)and, anyone who says the Federal Reserve “is a secret corporation owned by foreign bankers” is directly quoting the most infamous slander in modern history, Henry Ford, Senior’s version of the fabricated “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” that Ford, Sr’s Dearborn Independent rewrote into “The International Jew”.
one man, wearing a black Carhartt t-shirt, said the Federal Reserve “is a secret corporation owned by foreign bankers” before Frank Luntz started the DesMoines Thanksgiving Forum on Nov. 19, 2011.
btw, “The Protocols….” was found guilty of being a complete fabrication and slander in every courtroom. Henry Ford, Sr. was found guilty of slander in court and apoologized for publishing “The International Jew”. Too late – he conveniently forgot to copyright it, so you can still buy a copy of both slanders in any language you want, but the biggest sales are in Islamic nations.
The quotes are meant to paraphrase what I perceive to be your meaning, not fabrication.
wsullivan (Diary) Sunday, February 19th at 3:15PM EDT (link)Lizzie, it seems we certainly agree that the federal government should not be subsidizing healthcare of any kind, and certainly not the abortions provided by PP that comprise ~85% of its revenue.
About PP in general, I am against them. But if you and your neighbors love Planned Parenthood, donate to them. The govt, however, should particularly not force me to subsidize an organization that I find morally deplorable, yes, because of Margaret Sanger and her clear positions on race and poverty and her advocacy of abortion as a means of social engineering.
Thing is, I agree w/ her position on reproductive freedom in some regards. I am certainly for contraception, and even abortion in a limited manner. God knows, a complex figure she was, but part and parcel of that complexity was her opinions about stifling the breeding of the racially and genetically unfit. I wholeheartedly disagree with this, and others should know how Margaret Sanger, (who founded an abortion clinic in 1916 widely believed to be the genesis of Planned Parenthood, if that suits you better) had the particular notion to control breeding of blacks, and in modern practice, this is clearly being done. This much, however much of a champion of reproductive freedom you find her to be, is irrefutable.
It looks like Sadie Sachs was raped twice
Jack_Savage (Diary) Saturday, February 18th at 3:59PM EDT (link)Because that is the only reason this would have occurred twice:
“The tragic death of one patient, Sadie Sachs, from a second self-induced abortion after vainly pleading for information on birth control subsequent to the first one, was Margaret’s epiphany in 1912 when she was a nurse working for the Henry Street Settlement.”
Maybe she could have moved out of the violent neighborhood where she had been raped, or sought the protection of males in her family or male friends. It is also a shame that the child she was going to bear was so despicable and unwanted by her that death was a risk worth taking.
Congratulations on being a fan of probably the most despicable woman who ever lived, by the way.
congratulations jack_savage for being the most ignorant man in America
lizzie Saturday, February 18th at 5:57PM EDT (link)for your repugnant ctitle and despicably ignorant revision of actual history.
what a poster child for why the GOP does appear heartless.
Complete ignorance of history.
Lizzie, I've got it.
Viet71 (Diary) Saturday, February 18th at 6:30PM EDT (link)You studied Sanger in grad school. That would be cool.
Are you a conservative?
I don’t care. I favor bridging the Right-Left divide.
Just a question.
You honestly think that this divide can be bridged?
Jack_Savage (Diary) Saturday, February 18th at 6:40PM EDT (link)Really? When someone calls her out, she resorts to “despicable”, “ignorant” and “repugnant”?
You favor dialogue in that situation?
Please.
Jack
Viet71 (Diary) Saturday, February 18th at 6:44PM EDT (link)settle down.
No.
Jack_Savage (Diary) Saturday, February 18th at 7:10PM EDT (link)Thank you.
And one more thing about lizzie being full of crap, Viet71
Jack_Savage (Diary) Saturday, February 18th at 7:28PM EDT (link)Having grown up in Virginia, I am very familiar with eugenics. Google “Joseph DeJarnette” for a little information about the horror of forced sterilizations, supported by Justice Holmes, legal in the state of Virginia and pointed to at the Nuremburg trials as inspiration to the Nazis. I go by the DeJarnette Center in Staunton, VA during my travels about once a week. Forced lobotomies, sterilization and other sickening and horrific acts occurred daily there. Daily. Until 1979. I remember going by as a child, and seeing the lobotomized patients walking around in the yard, glassy eyed and listless.
From the St. Pete Times. They say it a lot better:
“They were hemophiliacs and hobos, the physically deformed and the diabetic, manic-depressives and the mentally retarded — 60,000 of them, almost all poor, rural, white, uneducated and young. Some were as young as 8 years old.
They had one more thing in common: The government despised their kind. They were considered “manifestly unfit” to give birth, so 35 states forcibly sterilized them.
This was the linchpin of eugenics, the science of weeding out “unfit” citizens to create a better breed of men and women. It started in 1907 and was a full-fledged movement by the 1920s. Luminaries from President Theodore Roosevelt to birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger embraced it. So did the U.S. Supreme Court. So did Nazi Germany.
In the 1930s and early 1940s, the Nazis ordered 375,000 people sterilized. At the Nuremberg Trials, they pointed to U.S. laws as their inspiration.”
Of course lizzie glosses over Sanger’s role in and support of this horror, then stands on a table and shouts “Know Your History!”. What pathetic, sickening crap.
Settle down my ass.
Jack_Savage...
westcoastpatriette (Diary) Saturday, February 18th at 7:34PM EDT (link)Don’t know what difference it might make but I just thought I would let you know lizzie is a man. Just uses a woman’s screen name for some reason.
Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them praise His name in the dance: let them sing praises unto Him with the timbrel and harp. Psalm 149:1-3
Thank you
Jack_Savage (Diary) Saturday, February 18th at 7:41PM EDT (link)I appreciate you telling me.
Face it, Mr. Lizzie
Patrish Saturday, February 18th at 8:04PM EDT (link)is a joke.
Pat T.
Gee, sorry
Jack_Savage (Diary) Saturday, February 18th at 6:37PM EDT (link)I was just quoting you and wondering why the lady would subject herself to a self-induced abortion TWICE. Maybe you could enlighten me, since you seem to think I really need it.
Or maybe you could simply own up to the fact that you are busy excusing Sanger from starting a barbarism that rivals anything that has ever happened on earth. And that, my friend, is actual history – not your grad school puffery.