Posted on 08/20/2015 5:28:36 PM PDT by markomalley
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) says it will “respectfully decline” a request by a group of black pastors that a bust of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger be removed from the gallery’s “Struggle for Justice” exhibit.
In response, the black ministers, Ministers Taking a Stand (MTS), pledged to continue to fight for the image’s removal and said that Sanger, given her racist and eugenic beliefs, should be displayed in an exhibit appropriate to supporters of genocide, such as Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Mengele.
In an Aug. 19 letter to the ministers, a copy of which CNSNews.com obtained, National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet says, “I received your letter regarding the legacy of Margaret Sanger and respectfully decline to remove her portrait [sic] from the museum.”
“The Struggle for Justice gallery brings attention to major cultural and political figures from the 19th century to the present day who fought to achieve civil rights for disenfranchised or marginalized groups,” says Sayet.
Despite the NPG’s position, Bishop E.W. Jackson, president and founder of Ministers Taking a Stand, told CNSNews.com that the group would continue its effort to have Sanger’s bust removed from the taxpayer-funded gallery.
“[Sajet’s] letter avoids the issue and whitewashes Sanger,” Jackson said. “We demand that her bust be removed from the gallery’s ‘Struggle for Justice’ exhibit.”
“If they must recognize her ‘historical significance,’ place her with busts of Pharaoh, Herod, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Goebbels, Pol Pot and Dr. Mengele,” Jackson said.
“This would put her in her proper historical context with the infamous and evil figures who committed genocide,” said the bishop.
Sajet’s letter refers to a portrait of Sanger but the permanent “Struggle for Justice” exhibit actually includes a bronze bust of Sanger – not a portrait -- alongside images of iconic civil rights heroes such as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.
Sanger, who in 1921 founded the American Birth Control League that would later become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was known for her involvement in the eugenics movement, a fact noted on the signage on the bust.
Margaret Sanger. (Library of Congress)
“During her campaign, Sanger became associated with the eugenics movement – which promoted, among other practices, the forced sterilization of those deemed mentally unfit and for a time was endorsed by many of the era’s prominent thinkers,” the signage states.
But Sajet defended Sanger in the letter to MTS as an advocate for women’s health and noted there is not a “moral test” required to “be accepted into the National Portrait Gallery.”
“Sanger is included because, as founder of the American Birth Control League, she strived to bring medical advice and affordable birth control to disadvantaged women at a time when even providing literature on women’s health infringed on ‘obscenity’ laws,” Sajet wrote. “Sanger wanted to give couples the ability to control the size of their families.”
As reported earlier by CNSNews.com, in their Aug. 7 letter to Sajet asking for the Sanger bust to be removed, Jackson and more than a dozen other national black faith leaders pointed to her strong support for and involvement in eugenics.
Eugenics is a race-based and Darwinian-based idea that society can be improved through birth control, sterilization, and selective breeding to maximize the growth of so-called superior races and minimize the growth of so-called inferior races.
"Perhaps the Gallery is unaware that Ms. Sanger supported black eugenics, a racist attitude toward black and other minority babies, an elitist attitude toward those she regarded as ‘the feeble minded;’ speaking at a rally of Ku Klux Klan women; and communications with Hitler sympathizers," the letter from Ministers Taking a Stand states.
“Also the notorious ‘Negro Project,’ which sought to limit, if not eliminate black births, was her brainchild,” the letter reads. “Despite these well-documented facts of history, her bust sits proudly in your gallery as a hero of justice.”
“The obvious incongruity is staggering!” state the ministers in their Aug. 7 letter to the NPG.
The letter also notes the current scandal surrounding Planned Parenthood with the release of undercover videos showing top medical officials in the organization discussing the harvesting and selling of aborted baby body parts.
“The fact is that the behavior of these abortionists, their callous and cavalier attitude toward these babies, is completely in keeping with Sanger’s perverse vision for America,” the letter states.
In a paper entitled “Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda” written by Sanger in 1921, she praises eugenics as “the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.”
She then explains the role birth control plays in eugenics.
“The eugenic and civilizational (sic) value of birth control is becoming apparent to the enlightened and the intelligent,” Sanger wrote.
The basis of birth control propaganda, Sanger said, “indicate that the campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical in ideal with the final aims of eugenics,” Sanger wrote.
In addition to a letter asking the NPG to remove the Sanger bust from its “Struggle for Justice” exhibit, the MTS also is sponsoring a petition on the CitizenGo website that has garnered more than 10,800 signatures from people around the globe who support of MTS’s mission.
“Margaret Sanger did NOT struggle ‘to achieve civil rights for disenfranchised or marginalized groups,’” the petition states. “On the contrary, Sanger's advocacy of racist eugenicist policies toward the black community and people ‘of feeble mind’ have been thoroughly documented.”
‘The ‘Negro Project,’ which sought to severely limit or eradicate black births, was her brainchild,” the petition states. “Demonstrating that she shared common cause with the Ku Klux Klan, Sanger even addressed a rally of KKK women and engaged Hitler sympathizers.”
PP was founded by one of the most evil women of the 20th Century, if not THE most evil woman of the 20th Century. She was a Eugenicist who wanted to wipe out whole populations.
Just take a look at the masthead of the Birth Control Review, the Journal of the Birth Control League (predecessor to Planned Butcherhood):
In case you think that the masthead might be inartfully worded pap and not their real agenda, please note the title of an article from another issue of that rag:
Or we have this article from April 1933 ("The Sterilization Issue"):
(My question is which leftist determines who is socially inadequate?)
In case this is not sufficient, here's another example. You've heard, of course, of the Negro Project, right? It was an effort to place their eugenic clinics in black neighborhoods...to make sure that their gene pool would be cut off. In this 12/10/1939 letter to Charles Gamble, founder of P&G, she discloses:
If you take a look at page 102 of the April, 1933 issue of the Birth Control Review (Sanger's Journal of her Birth Control League which, after the war, morphed into Planned Butcherhood) you will note an interesting article titled, Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need. The doctor was Dr. Ernst Rüdin. In case you're not familar, Dr. Ernst Rüdin was honored by Hitler as being the "pioneer of the racial-hygienic measures of the Third Reich." He was one of the collaborators of Margaret Sanger.
“Struggle for justice”, is that what they call using chemicals to burn small infants and rip them apart limb from limb?
The National Portrait Gallery is run by the US government (Jarrett-Obama).
They are not budging an inch as their Dr. Mengele organization is exposed.
I wonder if this sort of thing will finally make the African-American community get a clue and realize that the Lib/Dems really don’t give a rip about them? Somehow I doubt it.
Ping for being disgusted later.
An anti-Catholic Klansman on the Supreme Court was behind the landmark ‘separation of church and state’ decision (it came from denying parochial students use of school buses).
Wonder how the libs in the Smithsonian celebrate him.
Sanger was a Racist— real bad.
Much bigger scandal than the Confederate flag.
No corrupt iberal icons will be exposed and excised under a liberal Democrat adminstration.
Someone needs to visit the Smithsonian with a sledge hammer concealed in their pants leg, find that bust of Sanger and then smash the damn thing into countless pieces.
Or maybe smear it with dog feces, pour light fluid over it, and let them get a whiff of what their ‘social justice’ smells like.
light fluid = lighter fluid.
margaret sanger...
somebody who hillary clinton has claimed to be a personal hero...
founded an organization specifically chartered to cull the population of people from undesirable races...
such as those from africa...
who would still vote 95% to elect hillary if she was on the ticket with a D next to her name.
SMDH
Smithsonian Admin., just so you know, this controversy is far from over!
Hopefully that is being exposed now.
Has anyone criticized the Albert Pike statue yet?
While the Confederate Battle Flag comes down, this genocidal monster is revered.
Welcome to The United States.
Wonder how the libs in the Smithsonian celebrate him.
If you're referring to Hugo L. Black, I'm pretty sure the liberals consider him a big hero.
The "right wing" KKK in the 20s also materially supported the Communist/Masonic government of Mexico in its war against Catholics. Now if someone would explain to me why Mexican Catholics today are to the Left of Communists/Masons???
““The Struggle for Justice gallery brings attention to major cultural and political figures from the 19th century to the present day who fought to achieve civil rights for disenfranchised or marginalized groups,” says Sayet.”
A million woman march in Washington to demand Sanger’s bust be removed would garner a lot of attention. Especially if it can be done without violence.
That would destroy Jackson, Sharpton and company.
Liberals stand firm—Yet “Conservatives” couldn’t run away from the Confederate battle flag fast enough.
Sickening.
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