Forced sterilization policies in the US targeted minorities and those with disabilities – and lasted into the 21st century

Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation ^ | Sept 23, 2020 | Aexandra Minna Stern

[ChildOfThe60s]

In August 1964, the North Carolina Eugenics Board met to decide if a 20-year-old Black woman should be sterilized. Because her name was redacted from the records, we call her Bertha.

She was a single mother with one child who lived at the segregated O'Berry Center for African American adults with intellectual disabilities in Goldsboro. According to the North Carolina Eugenics Board, Bertha had an IQ of 62 and exhibited “aggressive behavior and sexual promiscuity.” She had been orphaned as a child and had a limited education. Likely because of her “low IQ score,” the board determined she was not capable of rehabilitation.

Instead the board recommended the “protection of sterilization” for Bertha, because she was “feebleminded” and deemed unable to “assume responsibility for herself” or her child. Without her input, Bertha’s guardian signed the sterilization form.

A pamphlet extolling the benefit of selective sterilization published by the Human Betterment League of North Carolina, 1950. North Carolina State Documents Collection/State Library of North Carolina

Bertha’s story is one of the 35,000 sterilization stories we are reconstructing at the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab. Our interdisciplinary team explores the history of eugenics and sterilization in the U.S. using data and stories. So far, we have captured historical records from North Carolina, California, Iowa and Michigan.

[BlueLancer]

200 years from now, I want their children's children's children
to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead
because their legends tell of fire from the sky.

I want them to hide in dark caves and holes in the earth,
shivering with terror whenever they hear the roar of diesel engines
because the tales of their ancestors talk about metal monsters
crawling over the earth, spitting death and destruction.

I want their mothers to be able to admonish them with
"If you don't behave, the Pale Destroyers will come for you",
and that will be enough to reduce them to quivering obedience.

I want the annihilation to be so complete that their mythology
will tell them of the day of judgment when the stern gods from across the sea
.. the powerful 'Mericans .. destroyed their forefathers' wickedness.

(Original created by BlueLancer ... 13 September 2001)

[LucyT]

Check out # 21.

Thanks, BlueLancer.

[sloanrb]

And it’s still the law of the land. Supreme Court has never overturned it.

[ronniesgal]

oh, eyeroll. there are still plenty of morons roaming the Earth.

[rxsid]

Thanks for that great array!

Too bad our political "leaders" (bush, et. al) severely lacked the will and intelligence to do the right thing.

Destroy (as your montage alludes to), and get out.

Instead, their "brilliance" lead to 2 decades of "nation building" and "exporting democracy" to a land/people that was 100% incompatible. $$$Trillions$$$ wasted and thousands of lives lost/wounded and what do we have to show for their "leadership?"

[Kevmo]

Nation building. pfffttt

from my home page

I have been advocating for several years a policy I call ‘embaseees’. Embassy + AirBase —> EmBASEeees. We go into a terrorist country, clear out their taliban equivalent, then withdraw to very large Embassies, perhaps 3 of them. Have them big enough to encompass a military airbase where we can use it for decades on end to conduct anti-terrorism operations. As long as the ‘host’ country aint killing Americans then we let them have self-sovereignty. Kind of like how we operated in the Phillipines for decades. We could even have an intermediate zone that we patrol but it would be autonomous. Let them have their taste of freedom. A referendum every 10 years to see how large the boundaries of the intermediate autonomous zone should be.

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[Rocko Jack]

But I’m talking about supporters of Engenics

[Brown Deer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOppGhlxErE

[Brown Deer]

I believe that General Motors is still a big supporter of Planned Parenthood. Sanger’s daughter-in-law was Billy Durant’s granddaughter.

https://tinyurl.com/da8wvdsw

[ChildOfThe60s]

Did they ever sterilize men if their IQ below 62

Yes

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Yes they were; it is because of this that they people of WV are suspicious of the jab.

Look up “forced sterilization of poor whites.”

[BiteYourSelf]

Exactly!🤔