You really need to check stuff before you post. This makes you look REALLY gullible.
Sanger, a feminist and reproductive rights activist, opened the first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1916, giving access to low-income and minority women (
here).
She started “The Negro Project” in 1939, with the aim of expanding birth control services for Black communities in the south, according to the New York University’s project documenting Sanger’s writings. (
here)
The quote is real and appears in a Dec. 10, 1939 letter to a program director advocating employing Black physicians and ministers to gain trust of the communities the program was meant to serve (
here).
Sanger’s concern was to avoid a suspicion that the program’s objective was to stop Black people having babies, which having white people in charge could create.
She wrote: “The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. 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.”
In 2015, the Washington Post, addressing accusations of racism levelled against Sanger brought up her 1939 letter, saying that while the passage quoted above was “inartfully written” it was “frequently taken out of context to suggest Sanger was seeking to exterminate blacks.” (
here)
TIME magazine re-examined claims that Sanger advocated exterminating Blacks in 2016, saying that Sanger’s oft-cited sentence, “in context, describes the sort of preposterous allegations she feared — not her actual mission.” (
here) Factcheck.org reached similar conclusions in 2011 (
here).
Social media users are sharing a quote from Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger without context.
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