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Originally Posted by 2Stonedbirds
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Tone is the most important part of that statement. It wasn't a statement of conspiracy, it was a statement of "oh hey, black people understandably aren't going to trust a white woman telling them to limit how many children they have. If we can get black doctors, people that they already trust, on board, it helps us with our mission."
And again, this is before abortions were performed by PP. They were literally only providing contraception at this point. Abortions did not start happening in Planned Parenthood until after her death.
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"I have never run into any serious academic reference of Sanger or others wanting to ‘kill black babies,’" Indiana University professor Ruth Engs, a eugenics movement expert, told PolitiFact Georgia in an e-mail.
What’s worse, Cain got his facts mixed up.
Sanger’s first birth control clinic opened in 1916 in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., which was mostly Irish and Jewish.
When she did open a Harlem clinic in the early 1930s, about half of its patients were white. Members of the black establishment, including DuBois and black newspaper the Amsterdam News, supported it. This was hardly the pro-genocide camp.
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Sanger wrote that "We don’t 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."
But her correspondence shows this sentence advocates for black doctors and ministers to play leadership roles in the Negro Project to avoid misunderstandings. Lynchings and Jim Crow laws gave blacks good reason to be wary of attempts to limit the number of children they bore. In Harlem, she hired a black doctor and social worker to quell those fears.
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http://www.politifact.com/georgia/st...d-planned-gen/