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The question raised by the above headline is not whether the Smithsonian Institution will comply with the demand in a letter coauthored by a group of black clergymen who call themselves “Ministers Taking a Stand.” It is, rather, what a bust in bronze of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger is doing in the National Portrait Gallery’s “Struggle for Justice” exhibit in the first place.
As the letter notes, Sanger was a proponent of black eugenics.
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 rallies of Ku Klux Klan women; and communications with Hitler sympathizers. Also, the notorious “Negro Project” which sought to limit, if not eliminate, black births, was her brainchild. Despite these well documented facts of history, her bust sits proudly in your gallery as a hero of justice. The obvious incongruity is staggering!
Perhaps your institution is a victim of propaganda advanced by those who support abortion….
originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: xuenchen
Well, I don't blame them. I would as well.
Birth Control and Racial Betterment
By Margaret Sanger
www.nyu.edu...
www.nyu.edu...^unfit^%20to%20reproduce
In her "Plan for Peace," Sanger outlined her strategy for eradication of those she deemed "feebleminded." Among the steps included in her evil scheme were immigration restrictions; compulsory sterilization; segregation to a lifetime of farm work; etc. Birth Control Review, April 1932, p. 107
“We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.”
– Margaret Sanger. The Pivot of Civilization, 1922, pages 116, 122, and 189.
“Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
– Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922, page 12
originally posted by: infolurker
Well, I don't blame them. I would as well.
originally posted by: Isurrender73
I don't think planned parenthood represents her ideologies. If they want to honor planned parenthood they can find a better way to do so.
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
a reply to: xuenchen
It's a MUSEUM. If it were the confederate flag, should it be removed? Of course not! It's part of history. Neither should be removed from a MUSEUM.
originally posted by: infolurker
Well, I don't blame them. I would as well.
Would you remove the confederate flag, too?
originally posted by: Isurrender73
I don't think planned parenthood represents her ideologies. If they want to honor planned parenthood they can find a better way to do so.
That's probably true, but she IS the founder. Whatever racial issues she had do not extend to the staff and services PP provides to the country today.
But by 1921, when Sanger founded the Birth Control League, her movement had begun to win adherents in respectable quarters. Adding to her life of controversy is her association with the eugenics movement—which included promotion of forced sterilization for those deemed mentally unfit—a movement that for a time was endorsed by many of the era’s prominent thinkers.
National Portrait Gallery’s “Struggle for Justice”
originally posted by: yuppa
Wait a second didnt you say they should remove th econfererate flag? It was also in a memorial/museum peice too.
originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: Benevolent Heretic
well it is a government run institution, administered by the Government of the United States.
The congressionally funded National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonsian Institution has refused the request from a group of black pastors who asked that it remove a bust of eugenicist Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from its "Struggle for Justice" exhibit.
In refusing the pastors' request, the Smithsonian conceded Sanger's association with the eugenics movement and declared that it imposes no "moral test" when it honors A