Posted on 09/02/2007 11:08:32 AM PDT by wagglebee
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The looks on their faces were somber as they listened to recordings of the stories of those who were forcibly sterilized under North Carolinas eugenics program.
About 300 people came to Winston-Salem State University yesterday for an opening reception and to see the states new exhibit explaining the program.
Look at the ages, 13, 14, said Johnetta Huntley, a counselor at Parkland High School. Theyre all young.
Our children need to be exposed to this so they wont let something of this nature happen again.
The interactive exhibit opened in Raleigh in June and made its first stop on the road at WSSU earlier this month.
The states eugenics program lasted from 1929 until 1974.
A five-member board made decisions to sterilize young and poor women and men, many of them against their will. More than 7,600 people were sterilized.
People who viewed the exhibit said they were shocked that states endorsed and carried out such programs.
This is a project that is really embarrassing for the whole United States of America, for something like this to have taken place, said Bobbie Linville of Winston-Salem. This is something that you would expect in Nazi Germany.
The exhibit explains eugenics and how it was carried out, has stories from survivors and displays medical tools, including a caliper, curette and forceps.
Several students said they are just now learning about the program.
Brittany Jones is a sophomore at WSSU who attended the reception at the Anderson Center after an instructor recommended that students see the exhibit.
It was definitely unfair. It didnt give the people a chance to actually have a family of their own, Jones said of the states eugenics program. I didnt really see anything wrong with the people that were sterilized.
Some of the survivors came to the reception, which included a panel discussion. One of them, Elaine Riddick, watched as people listened to her story through a telephone receiver.
Riddick was 14 when she was sterilized at a hospital in Edenton in 1968.
I think that its reaching a lot of people, she said of the exhibit.
Martinique Lewis, a junior at N.C. A&T State University, said she was surprised to learn that her home state of California conducted many sterilizations under its own program. She said that the exhibit shows how unfairly those who were sterilized were treated.
I just wish it was bigger and it was better publicized so more people can know, she said.
State Rep. Larry Womble, D-Forsyth, who is pushing legislation to require the state to financially compensate the people who were sterilized, helped get the exhibit to WSSU as its first stop outside of Raleigh. State officials say they hope to set up other locations.
The exhibit will be on display on the second floor of the F.L. Atkins Building on campus through Jan. 31. The building is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There is no charge to view the exhibit.
■ Patrick Wilson can be reached at 727-7286 or at pwilson@wsjournal.com.
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There are now more sophisticated methods to arrive at the same result. For example, sex ed in public schools.
Then name them, if they don't exist mainly in your head.
For all our fears of some external barbaric enemy, history teaches us that the greatest atrocities wrt to human life occur at the hands of internal governments - eugenics, the Nazi holocaust, politically-motivated mass-starvation in Russia and China, the various communist purges and gulag systems, and the abortion industry, among countless others. Keep that in mind at the ballot box - an advanced people are almost universally destroyed from within.
Read some of the threads dealing with eugenics.
There are actually people who claim they are conservative and support this sort of socialist tripe.
I hope they are just trolls.
You should have no problem finding them yourselves on these threads:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1887900/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886493/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876379/posts
Whereas Democrats are "pro conception" because revenue can be generated via the wholesale slaughter of children before they can escape the womb.
In 1973 the liberals got Roe v. Wade and didn’t need sterilizations any longer.
Who were the people who supported Terri Schiavo’s right to live? I don’t remember seeing any liberals there except Jesse Jackson. If you cannot name conservatives who support forced sterilizations, then don’t make broad generalizations. I can name dozens of conservatives who openly support the right to life. Unfortunately, there are not many liberals I can name. Anyone care to help?
I’m not going to get into naming them, you can see for yourself in these links:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1887900/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886493/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876379/posts
>"Against Their Will"
The story of current, past, and future taxpayers forced to provide for unplanned/uncontrolled reproduction of those not able to provide for themselves let alone progeny!
So, do you believe that these sterilization programs should be brought back?
If you are a ward of the state (IE free medical and or welfare recipient) you should be treated as such.
Let em have 1. The sterelization should be reversible, so when and if the ward of the state can afford to reverse it, they should be able to provide for their own progeny.
Or we could just "donate" our entire GDP to the third world and become them.
Ward of the State, you want foster children sterilized?
What was done in the previous situation was barbaric. What is happening now leads us to barbarism.
You are harsh and cruel towards the poor and the temporarily poor.
Anyone no matter how smart can become a burden. We are supposed to help each other through difficult times. I’m surprised you can’t see how such a nanny state program would be abused.
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