Posted on 12/06/2008 10:09:50 AM PST by wagglebee
n October 2008, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery opened its “Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs” exhibit. The collection includes a broad range of history-making women, including First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and runner Marion Jones.
Journalist, author, former ambassador and congresswoman Clare Booth Luce is one of the few conservatives to make the cut.
The exhibit is intended to honor women who are or were “significant figures in their chosen fields,” according to curator Ann Shumard. A total of 90 portraits are included in the photographic display.
Honored alongside these women is none other than Margaret Sanger — known racist and eugenicist — the founder of “non-profit” abortion giant Planned Parenthood. Sanger is described on the virtual tour of the exhibit as a “reformer” who faced “stiff opposition” with the “courage of a wounded tiger.”
I guess it does take “courage” to attempt to “exterminate the negro population,” or “segregate morons (mentally handicapped)” — which she described as “a dead weight of human waste.” The same “wounded tiger” advocated “prevent[ing] the multiplication of this bad stock” and believed “[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste ... [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to the race.” (Quotes compiled by American Life League)
Interviewed by CNS News, Shumard was asked if the exhibit intended to “celebrate” Sanger’s ideology. She didn’t have an answer, but remarked, “[Sanger] made an impact on the 20th century in a significant way. I don’t think you can tell the story of the 20th century without discussing the degree to which family planning impacted women’s entry into the workplace.”
Rounding out the leftist feminist-heavy exhibit are: Emma Goldman, a violent anarchist who was once dubbed “one of the most dangerous extremists in America;” Gloria Steinem, founder of Ms. magazine and her protégé Susan Faludi, Wall Street Journal reporter; and pro-Bolshevik (read communist) journalist Louise Bryant.
There is no surprise in such a display at the Smithsonian. The real issue in this situation, besides the severely left-leaning imbalance of representation, is that of who is footing the bill.
You guessed it! In the midst of an economic crisis, the likes of which the country hasn’t seen in decades, not only are taxpayers forced to support the profit-rich abortion giant Planned Parenthood, but we get to subsidize a nauseating display to deify its founder as well.
And is DIRECTLY responsible for five times as many deaths than Hitler, Stalin, Mao COMBINED.
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WHITE PLAINS, New York (CNN) — Olympic track star Marion Jones was sentenced in a federal court Friday to six months in prison, two years of probation and community service for lying to federal prosecutors investigating the use of performance-enhancing substances.
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She said through her attorney that she would like to start serving her sentence as soon as possible, and Judge Kenneth Karas set March 11 as the “surrender date” unless a designated jail is able to accept her sooner.
Jones had pleaded guilty in October to charges of lying to a federal agent in 2003 about her use of steroids, and was sentenced on two counts — getting six months in prison on the first count and two months on the second, to be served concurrently.
Before the sentencing, Jones broke down as she asked Karas not to send her to prison. “I plead with you to alleviate the situation by not separating me from my boys, even for a short period of time,” she said.
But Karas noted that “athletes in society ... serve as role models to children around the world. When there is a widespread level of cheating, it sends all the wrong messages.”
http://dianedew.com/sanger.htm
On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
“...human weeds,’ ‘reckless breeders,’ ‘spawning... human beings who never should have been born.” Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people
On sterilization & racial purification:
Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial “purification,” couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.
On the right of married couples to bear children:
Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her “Plan for Peace.” Birth Control Review, April 1932
On the purpose of birth control:
The purpose in promoting birth control was “to create a race of thoroughbreds,” she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)
On the rights of the handicapped and mentally ill, and racial minorities:
“More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief aim of birth control.” Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12
On religious convictions regarding sex outside of marriage:
Revolting.
Mary Todd Lincoln died in 1882—she didn’t live in the 20th century at all. Whoever set up the exhibit must have been an ignoramus.
Why Mary Todd Lincoln anyhow?
The exhibit is run by Libtards, you can’t expect them to know something as basic as that.
No mention of Mary Edwards Walker, Medal Of Honor
WALKER, DR. MARY E.
Rank and organization: Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon (civilian), U. S. Army. Places and dates: Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861; Patent Office Hospital, Washington, D.C., October 1861; Chattanooga, Tenn., following Battle of Chickomauga, September 1863; Prisoner of War, April 10, 1864-August 12, 1864, Richmond, Va.; Battle of Atlanta, September 1864. Entered service at: Louisville, Ky. Born: 26 November 1832, Oswego County, N.Y. Citation: Whereas it appears from official reports that Dr. Mary E. Walker, a graduate of medicine, “has rendered valuable service to the Government, and her efforts have been earnest and untiring in a variety of ways,” and that she was assigned to duty and served as an assistant surgeon in charge of female prisoners at Louisville, Ky., upon the recommendation of Major-Generals Sherman and Thomas, and faithfully served as contract surgeon in the service of the United States, and has devoted herself with much patriotic zeal to the sick and wounded soliders, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own health, and has also endured hardships as a prisoner of war four months in a Southern prison while acting as contract surgeon; and Whereas by reason of her not being a commissioned officer in the military service, a brevet or honorary rank cannot, under existing laws, be conferred upon her; and
Whereas in the opinion of the President an honorable recognition of her services and sufferings should be made:
It is ordered, That a testimonial thereof shall be hereby made and given to the said Dr. Mary E. Walker, and that the usual medal of honor for meritorious services be given her.
Given under my hand in the city of Washington, D.C., this 11th day of November, A.D. 1865.
And yet Planned Parenthood continues to defend her fervently, which reveals tehir real agenda -- kill as many "inferior" people a you can -- especailly minorities -- and get very rich doing it.
That the Smithsonian would honor this insane, racist, genocidal maniac is offensive but revealing.
The exhibit was supposed to be 20th Century women. So Mary Todd Lincoln wouldn’t fit, either.
Sickening about Sanger. Honoring a racist eugenist in our Smithsonian?
You know, I’ve seen this claim of supposed quotes that Sanger had made. But, I have seen no real proof of WHERE these quotes have come from. I am not saying the quotes are false, I just haven’t seen any proof that they are real.
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