Posted on 02/07/2007 4:29:18 PM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A leading pro-life advocate in the black community says abortion diminishes the worth and value of African-Americans in the same way slavery and a lack of civil rights did before. Day Gardner, president of the National Black Pro-Life Union, hopes Americans will learn more about this travesty during Black History Month.
"Throughout the month of February, we take the time ... one month out of the year to remember the tragedies and celebrate the triumphs of African Americans in history," Gardner explained.
"We celebrate the fact that we are a strong race that survived the many horrors and inhumane treatment when we were an enslaved people -- presumed by many to be less than human," she said in a statement provided to LifeNews.com.
Gardner, a former Miss Delaware and the first black woman to be named a semifinalist in the Miss America pageant, said that black Americans made great strides in the 1960s and afterwards in achieving civil rights and establishing their ability to achieve the American dream.
Since that time, African-American people have been able to rise to the highest ranks in the political and business worlds and achieve tremendous success. But Gardner worries that abortion is taking a heavy toll on her community.
"In our quest for higher education, bigger houses, better jobs and flashier cars are we closing our eyes to the fact that more than a thousand of our children die each day by the horrible practice of abortion?" she asked.
"These children are denied their most basic human right -- which is the right to life; a right which our ancestors so proudly worked for, marched for and many of them died for," Gardner added.
Gardner said that 15 million of the 44 million unborn children killed via abortion since 1973 were black.
"Abortion has become the number one killer of black people in this country -- killing more African Americans that accidents, heart disease, stroke, crimes, HIV-AIDS and all other deaths combined," she explained.
Gardner says she's bothered that African-American leaders recognize racism in many places but fail to see how abortion has targeted the black community and how a disproportionate number of the abortions done in the United States are on black women and children.
More than 37 percent of all abortions involve black Americans, she says.
Gardner concludes, "We are the underground railroad of our time and it's up to us to make abortion a thing of our historical past. If we stand united against this horrific practice ... we shall overcome this, too."
I have heard it all from sell out to a female version uncle Tom. The sad part is some blacks fail to understand that Democrats don't look at them as individuals.
[We propose to] hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. 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.
Commenting on the 'Negro Project' in a letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, December 10, 1939. - Sanger manuscripts, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts.
No, the fundamental driver is that black women and girls are being duped into sleeping around with wide assortment of irresponsible (read: unemployed, drug-addicted, gang-banging) men and boys and not bothering to make any serious effort and contraception. These pregnancies should never have occurred in the first place. Abortion is just putting things back the way they should have been in terms of how many babies get born (though given the huge number of crack babies and abused/neglected children in this community, obvious far from all the pregnancies that shouldn't have happened are being aborted). There is virtually no chance of young black women and girls pulling themselves out of the cycle of irresponsibility and welfare addiction once they have a baby that they aren't equipped to care for, nor even really interested in caring for.
The social wreckage is the adolescent and other welfare-addicted mothers. The ones that had abortions still have a chance at turning their lives around, and someday being responsible parents who raise their own children at their own expense, thus breaking the cycle of social wreckage. It's not a matter of "eugenics", i.e. of not wanting them to have children ever; it's a matter of not wanting them to have children at a point in their lives when having children dooms both the children and the mother to repeating the cycle of social wreckage. Sure, it would be better if they'd use contraceptives and be a bit more selective about who they sleep with, but the fact that they don't/aren't is further evidence that they aren't responsible or competent enough to raise children.
They didn't want that "word to go out" because it wasn't true -- they didn't want an incorrect assumption about their goals to be made. Try to understand that people used language a bit differently in previous centuries. Just as the now awkward-sounding wording of the Second Amendment is twisted by modern-day gun-grabbers, you are twisting the words of Margaret Sanger.
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I don't think it is a gaffe; I think that when the sentence is read to the end, including "and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea", she's making it clear that the idea of "extermination" is a mistaken idea.
Stoddard advocated that we did not need any continued procreation except in the White Man's World, that the elimination of red, yellow, brown and black fertility would benefit the human race, that not all whites ought to procreate either, that Nordic and Anglo-Saxon whites were generally fit to procreate plus a small group of other whites to be bred as servants of Nordics and Anglo-Saxons. Ironically, Sanger was a Celt whose maiden name was Higgins. Nonetheless, she welcomed Stoddard, published him monthly in her American Birth Control League (predecessor name of Planned Barrenhood) magazine and had him serve as her "official observer" at the Nazi Eugenics Courts from which he wrote for the magazine with breathless enthusiasm of Herr Hitler's spiffy efforts to cleanse the German gene pool.
Hence, there is absolutely nothing whatsoever respectable about Sanger or Stoddard. She served as Edgar Bergin (ventriloquist). He served as her Charlie McCarthy (ventriloquist's dummy).
It's hard for us to see eugenics these days without seeing it through the lens of modern science or World War II. Sanger was hardly the only one at the time advocating that the "right" people should breed, and the "wrong" people not so much; Theodore Roosevelt's writings on the subject are pretty eyebrow-raising by today's standards.
Extensive libraries have copies of Sanger's Pivot of Civilization and other works as well as Lothrop Stoddard's Rising Tide of Color. I suggest that anyone in doubt read these books and decide for themselves what Sanger and Stoddard were up to and what their successors ARE up to.
Other collaborators and co-conspirators of Sanger were H. G. Wells, Havelock Ellis, and other Euroleftist eugenics enthusiasts. In the US, she had such as Madison Grant as allies as well as Dr. Thomas and Hrs. Thomas Hepburn (parents of the imperious "Great Kate") who founded Connecticut Planned Barrenhood as the first non-NY affiliate in 1921.
In spite of her associations, however, she was, at most, a high school alumna and nursing school dropout and NOT a particularly educated woman other than bull sessions with her radical friends and, perhaps, a bit of self-"education" through reading books with which she agreed and which could reinforce her prejudices. She was articulate enough to know that she was preaching and promoting eugenics with an aim toward racial "cleansing."
Brother, you have got to stop making sense and cease making accurate historical references. It will cause folks to feel bad and that isn't nice.
When Margaret said "women must have the right to live, love..create..destroy..be lazy..". and that "The most merciful thing a family does to one of its infant members is to destroy it" how ought we in this day and age struggle to grasp what she really meant?'
I mean, it really is difficult, isn't it, to get into the minds of Eugenicists, Nazi's and other, oh, I dunno, let's call them idealistic envelope-pushers. What could she have meant....?
I haven't seen those comments. Can you link me to the source documents? I don't understand what she meant (??soldiers???) without seeing more than partial sentences.
Those dots between parts of one comment indicate that material has been removed, it would be interesting to know what it said originally. Thanks for your help with links.
and yet they continue to support and vote in the fools who facilitate this travesty
Sorry for the confusion; I meant unedited documents. I see these snippets have already been heavily edited. Thanks anyway.
Yes,Sanger was a racist eugenecist but her thinking at that time was right in the mainstream of American thought.
Am I supposed to purchase the books for you? EVERYTHING at the link is documented.
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