Hidden among the branches and rolling hills
of the northern part of Denton County, Texas,
the remains of more than 400 people lie in
an overgrown cemetery. And even though it
was abandoned and forgotten a long time ago,
a few headstones can still be found. But most
of the graves in this place never had headstones
to begin with. That's because the people who
were buried in them were considered to be
property, not much different than a horse
or a mule. This is where slaves were buried.
[Lloyd] Hello, my name is Markus Lloyd.
[René] And I'm Michelle René. We thank you
for joining us. If you are African-American,
you and I will always be connected to the
people whose bodies lie in that cemetery.
Our ancestors may have worked alongside of
them in the same cotton fields. They could
have been bought and sold at the same auction
houses, or had chains hammered around their
necks by the same overseer. Some of them may
have even been hunted down by the same slave
catcher or whipped by the same master.
[ Lloyd] For almost 250 years, our people were
held in bondage. And today, this period of
history has come to be known by an ancient
Swahili word. It's called "the Maafa," and
it began when the first Africans were shackled
to the bottom of a slave ship. But the irony
is that it did not end when the slaves were
freed. In fact, it hasn't ended yet. And as
you're about to see, a hidden racial agenda
is keeping the Maafa alive into the 21st century.
"What shall be done with the 4 million slaves
if they are emancipated? This question has
been answered and can be answered in many
ways. Primarily, it is a question less for
man than for God, less for human intellect
than for the laws of nature to solve. Our
answer is do nothing with them. Mind your
business and let them mind theirs. Your doing
with them is their greatest misfortune. They
have been undone by your doings and all they
now ask and really have need of at your hands
is just to let them alone."
Frederick Douglass, 1862.
[Crutcher] It is the stupidity of man to think
that he can do evil, even some monstrous evil,
and it won't have any backlash on himself.
But, of course, it seldom works that way,
and the moment he figures that out, he starts
looking for a way to avoid the repercussions
of what he's done. This is what happened with
slavery. In the early 1800's, as it began
to look like the end of slavery might be on
the horizon, White America started to be concerned
that a day of reckoning was coming. The primary
fear for the average person was of retribution
and insurrection, and that was a reasonable
fear. After all, it's illogical to think that
you can do to a whole group of people what
was done to African-Americans and think that
they will just take it lying down forever.
And, of course, there were things like the
Nat Turner uprisings. But for the wealthy
elite, their fears went beyond things like
insurrection. They were worried about the
financial impact. Remember, it was not just
the cotton plantations that profited from
slavery. Whether you're talking about the
banks or the insurance companies, the railroads,
even the newspapers; the fact is that almost
every aspect of the American economy was at
some level or another invested in the slave
business. You also need to recognize that
for the wealthy elitist who controlled this
system, slaves were an asset as long as they
were slaves. But at the moment they are set
free, they become a liability. And what the
elite knew was that the end of slavery would
instantly release 4 million people into
the economy who had been kept uneducated and
effectively unemployable anywhere but the
cotton field. And what they were concerned
about was that this was going to bankrupt
the American economy. Taxes were going to
go through the roof to take care of these
people, crime was going to be rampant, the
prisons were gonna be flooded, there was going
to be this population overrun, and in the
North, the biggest fear was migration from
the South of these black people. The other
fear that these people had was intermarriage
between blacks and whites would lead to a
loss of racial purity. The question was what
were they going to do about it. And their
initial thought was that they would just send
all the slaves back to Africa. This plan was
called Colonization, and it had broad support
among the wealthy elite. In fact, the American
Colonization Society was even funded by the
United States Congress. But in the end, colonization
proved to be unworkable and the idea was eventually
scrapped. But about that same time, a new
philosophy was emerging in the world. It was
called eugenics, and for some, it seemed like
the perfect solution to what had become known
as the Negro Dilemma.
"I do not join in the belief that the African
is our equal in brain or in heart; and I believe
that if we can, in any fair way, possess ourselves
of his services, we have an equal right to
utilize them to our advantage."
Francis Galton, 1857.
[Eller] Francis Galton is known as the father
of eugenics. He actually coined the phrase
eugenics. So he believed in trying to
increase those he felt were superior in stock
and decrease those he felt were inferior.
Francis Galton came from a very wealthy family,
a family that made its wealth from the slave
trade, and what a lot of people don't know
is that Francis Galton was a cousin to Charles
Darwin. Francis Galton took Charles Darwin's
philosophies, and ideas, and thoughts, and
he actually put them into practice, and that's
what we know today as eugenics. Eugenics and
evolution are related in that they both see
what they considered to be the highest form
of primate, such as the gorilla, as almost
indistinguishable from what they consider
the lowest form of human, the African and
the Aborigine.
"At some future period
[Eller] Charles Darwin is very well-known for writing
the "Origin of Species" in the 1800's. This
book gave rise to evolutionary theory. What
people don't know is that there was actually
a longer, original title to this book, and
that was "On the Origin of Species By Means
of Natural Selection, or the Preservation
of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.”
Now, copies and editions that they made afterwards
eliminated that phrase about the "favoured
races". Evidently, they understood then that
it was politically incorrect.
[Childress] Some may defend Francis Galton
because eventually, that he rejected slavery,
but they do point out that all of his wealth
did derive from the slave trade. But also
it needs to be known that he, as well as other
eugenists, did not reject slavery until after
it had ended, and they could not any longer
exploit blacks legally. So, at that point,
it would have been quite easy for he and his
cohorts to reject slavery.
I think this is a point that we all have to
really realize, that the eugenics movement
was not invented by the everyday, average
white American, but by a select group of wealthy,
white elitists that had often used this ideology
to pit all of White America against Black
America. And so we see that indeed, that truly
is the case, even to this day.
[Eller] Eugenicists believed that Africans
were inferior—not just mentally—but physically,
and that, left to themselves, left alone,
they would not make it. The problem is it
didn't work. With that failure, the eugenicists
moved on to what is known as "positive eugenics."
In "positive eugenics", the eugenicists wanted
the white population to reproduce to have
so many children that it overwhelmed the black
population. But that didn't work either. Next,
they moved on to what they called "negative
eugenics". They knew that they could not round
up all the blacks in the nation and execute
them, so they decided to create an environment
where they would convince the blacks to severely
limit the number of children they were going
to have, and thereby commit race suicide.
"The problem of the socially fit must be treated
not as one of color but as a problem of the
spread of feeble-mindedness."
Dr. Charles Davenport, 1913, Director of the
Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor,
New York, and Co-Founder of the American Eugenics
Society.
[Childress] Eugenics realized that they could
not promote their agenda simply because they
knew it'd be viewed as politically incorrect
and socially unacceptable. So what they did
was use code words that were once successful
in slavery terms, such as "feeble-minded,"
"unfit," words such as "imbecile," "immoral,"
"criminal"; they tagged those labels upon
the targeted community. These words were less
inflammatory so it lets society more or less
not be totally alarmed of the original intent,
but deep down inside, I believe everyone truly
knew what segment of society and what people
they were actually talking about.
[Crutcher] In the early 20th century, the
white elitist who made up the eugenics movement
were no longer just philosophers and academics,
now they were industrialists and billionaires
who had come to embrace a worldview that was
essentially identical to the eugenics movement.
The same individuals in corporations who had
once made millions on the backs of slaves
were now willing to spend millions to get
rid of them. But that didn't mean that these
guys were interested in being public crusaders
for the eugenics movement. They were certainly
willing to be the brains and the money behind
it, but they would hire crusaders to do the
dirty work. And the primary one they settled
upon was a woman named Margaret Sanger. She
was the founder of the American Birth Control
League and the publisher of its newsletter,
"The Birth Control Review." On a practical
level, the relationship between Sanger and
these elitists was basically a marriage of
convenience. In order to advance their common
agendas, they needed a frontman, and she needed
money. And the whole thing would be held together
by this kind of bizarre obsession with
race and class. The result was that the American
Birth Control League became the driving force
behind the American eugenics movement. Eugenics
would no longer just be a philosophy. Sanger
and others like her were gonna put it into
practice.
"...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, 1922.
"The laws of nature required the obliteration
of the unfit and human life is valuable only
when it is of use to the community or race."
Madison Grant, 1916, Co-Founder, American Eugenics Society.
[Childress] The American Birth Control League
was wise enough to get their program of population
control across by using what had worked
in the past: the same code words that had
established the institution of slavery and
that was also used by the early eugenics movement
was once again used by the American Birth
Control League. The Margaret Sanger's of those
days did not come out and say they were trying
to eliminate black people. What they did say:
they were trying to rid society of the feeble-minded;
they were trying to rid the society of the
criminal. Well, she was successful simply
because of her eugenics friends for the past
50 years had put those labels on minorities
and African-Americans, and therefore society
was more or less desensitized. In effect,
the code words hid the agenda of Margaret
Sanger and the eugenist. At that time, they
did shift over to the what they call the "quality
of life." It was a philosophy unquestionably
used to target the poor, simply because what
the "quality of life" and its core meaning
was that poor people really didn't have a
reason to live. Only of the white, those with
status, had any chance of a meaningful or
purposeful life. The solution for the poor
now was not to eliminate the circumstances
that would cause poverty, their solution now
was to eliminate the poor; eliminate the impoverished,
and just wipe them off the face of the earth.
"...the practice of birth control among the
majority of colored people would probably
be more eugenic than among their white compatriots.
The dissemination of the information of birth
control should have begun with this class
rather than with the upper social and economic
classes of white citizens."
Walter Terpenning, Birth Control Review, 1932.
"In virtually every community where Negroes
dwell one finds them in fat times and lean
alike contributing a disproportionate number
to the roles of the dependents and delinquents.
They make excessive demands on the white man's
charity and overtax his patience."
Newell Sims, Birth Control Review, 1932.
Author Madison Grant was a Co-Founder of the
American Eugenics Society and an officer of
the New York Zoological Society. In 1906,
he had authorized an exhibit at the Bronx
Zoo in which a 22 year-old African named Ota
Benga was displayed in a cage in the monkey
house. Sharing the cage with Benga was an
orangutan.
When a local clergyman protested the exhibit,
he said that it was clearly intended to be
a demonstration of Darwin's theory of evolution.
Local proponents of Darwinism apparently agreed
and labeled the display "educational." Ten
years after this event, Ota Benga committed
suicide.
"During Hitler's regime, the Germans were
supplied...
[Lloyd] An often overlooked fact about the
German Holocaust is that the Nazis did not
simply target the Jewish population, they
went after the black community as well. Under
the threat of being sent to concentration
camps if they did not cooperate, Afro-German
citizens were not only forced to undergo sterilization
themselves, they were also required to turn
over their children for sterilization. In
his book, "Mein Kampf," Adolf Hitler explained
the motivation behind such programs.
[René] The Nazi attitude toward blacks was
clearly defined in a 1944 book by Robert Ley,
who was the head of the German Labor Front.
Ley characterized the Jewish race as a disease-riddled
parasite that had been created by unnatural
inbreeding between white men and the racially
inferior Negro. He described the result as
a racial swamp that would eventually destroy
the natural superiority of the Aryan race.
Another Nazi publication described blacks
as African brutes who had not been tamed even
by centuries of slavery. It went on to say
that any effort to assimilate people of African
descent into civilized society was a waste
of time, and that the lynchings of blacks
in America did not merit any regret.
Since World War II, it has been well documented
that Adolf Hitler was profoundly influenced
by the American eugenics movement and that
many of his governments' racial policies were
actually developed from the writings of American
eugenicists, like Madison Grant and Harry
Laughlin. In fact, Hitler referred to Grant's
book, "The Passing of the Great Race" as his
bible.
Meanwhile, American eugenicists were routinely
praising Hitler and holding up the Nazi eugenics
program as a model for the United States to
copy.
The leader of the German nation, Adolf Hitler,
"has been able to construct a comprehensive
racial policy of population development and
improvement. The difference between the Jew
and the Aryan is as unsurmountable as that
between black and white. Germany has set a
pattern which other nations must follow."
Dr. Clarence Gordon Campbell, 1935, President, Eugenics Research Association, New York.
Among those American eugenicists who most
strongly supported the Nazis was a member
of the American Eugenic Society. A director
of the American Birth Control League and a
writer for the Birth Control Review, his name
was Lothrop Stoddard.
As an avowed racist,
Stoddard was the author of a book called,
"The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy,"
which was widely promoted by the Ku Klux Klan.
In another book, "The Dragon and the Cross,"
Stoddard was identified as the exalted Cyclops
of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Klan.
On the 19th of December, 1939, during a four-month
stay in Germany, Stoddard was given a personal
meeting with both Adolf Hitler and the man
who would eventually be in charge of the Nazi
Holocaust, SS leader Heinrich Himmler.
Later, when a course on race was introduced at Halle
University in Germany, its instructors stated
that it would be modeled on the philosophies
of American eugenicists, including Lothrop
Stoddard. Eventually, Stoddard's racial views
would even be featured in Nazi school textbooks.
"...the white race divides into three main
sub-species—the Nordics, the Alpines, and
the Mediterraneans. All three are good stocks,
ranking in genetic worth well above the various
colored races."
Lothrop Stoddard, Director, American Birth Control League.
[René] To eliminate blacks from Germany,
one of the people Hitler called on was a eugenicist
who had once written that blacks are an inferior
race of savages who should only be allowed
to survive as long as they are of use to
the Aryan race. His name was Eugen Fischer.
And about 20 years earlier, he had been one
of the leaders of a system of concentration
camps in southwestern Africa, where blacks
were rounded up to be executed, experimented
on, or held as free labor. Under Hitler, Fischer
would serve on committees that plan the sterilization
of all blacks and countries that came under
German control. He would also be one of the
first Nazi scientists to become publicly affiliated
with the Carnegie-funded Eugenics Laboratory
in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Eventually,
Fischer would also be put in charge of the
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, which was funded
by the Rockefeller Foundation. It was here
that many of the Nazi programs for creating
racial purity were developed.
In 1927, Margaret Sanger organized the World
Population Conference in Geneva, Switzerland,
and gave it front-page coverage in her Birth
Control Review. The event's program shows
that several of its attendees were colleagues
of Sanger's from the American eugenics movement.
It also documents that among those who were
given a leadership role in the conference,
was Eugen Fischer, the man who would eventually
lead the Nazi effort to eradicate blacks from
Europe.
[Lloyd] Another American eugenicist with Nazi
connections was Harry Laughlin. And he was
an official with both the American Eugenics
Society and the American Birth Control League.
And in 1928, his plan for using forced sterilization
to eliminate those who might produce what
he called "degenerate offspring" was published
in the Birth Control Review. In 1936, Laughlin
led an effort to distribute the English language
version of a Nazi eugenics film to audiences
in the northeastern part of the United States.
He had acquired the rights to the film from
the Race Policy Office of the Nazi Party,
and with the help of two other American eugenics
organizations, had mailed literature to biology
teachers at 3,000 US high schools, urging
them to show it in their classrooms. Later
that year, Laughlin was praised in a Nazi
newspaper and awarded an honorary degree from
the University of Heidelberg for his contributions
to the Nazi eugenics effort.
In the 1930's, a German psychiatrist named
Ernst Rudin was named President of the International
Federation of Eugenics in Cold Spring Harbor,
New York, which was funded by the Carnegie
Corporation. And in 1933, his call for racial
purity was published in the Birth Control
Review.
Later, Rudin would be chosen by Hitler
to write Germany's eugenics laws, and at one
point, he personally helped the Gestapo roundup
and sterilize several hundred blacks who they
referred to as "Rhineland bastards." After
the war, Rudin would be identified as one
of the architects of the barbaric medical
experiments that the Nazis carried out in
their concentration camps.
[René] It may be possible that Hitler actually
got the idea for concentration camps while
studying the American eugenics movement. In
1919, the state of Indiana had allocated $300,000
to create a work colony in the city of Butlerville,
where those who were labeled feeble-minded
would be incarcerated. Then, in 1932, Margaret
Sanger called for the United States Government
to set aside farms and open spaces, where
certain groups of people would be segregated
from the rest of society. She proposed that
among others, the illiterate, the unemployed,
and the poor should be forcibly kept in these
areas until they developed what she called
better moral conduct.
[Lloyd] It was later discovered that under
the Indiana program, the state was allowed
to label someone  feeble-minded if they were
poor or did not do well in school, or if the
state considered them to be shiftless, or
have insufficient moral judgment. But it's
important to understand that this Indiana
campaign was not unlike those in other states.
For example, a eugenics project conducted
in Massachusetts during the late 1920's proposed
sterilization for young girls who were diagnosed
as defective, which could include being unwed
and pregnant, financially poor, or if the
state labeled them socially undesirable. In
addition, boys as young as 14 could be castrated
for showing signs of kleptomania, or for exhibiting
what was described as solitary behavior.
In a single incident during 1935, the Nazis
sterilized the children of over 600 German
women because it was reported that those children
had been fathered by black men.
When news of this reached the United States, a member
of the American Eugenic Society named Walter
Ashby Plecker wrote a letter to the German
Bureau of Human Betterment and Eugenics praising
them for the action and expressing his hope
that not one child had been missed. Ten years
earlier, Plecker had written that the black
population was the greatest problem and most
destructive force which confronts the white
race and American civilization.
"Eugenic goals are most likely attained under
a name other than eugenics."
Frederick Osborn, President and Founding Member
of the American Eugenic Society.
[René] By the late 1930's and early 1940's,
revelations about Nazi and fascist atrocities
in Europe were causing the public to become
increasingly uncomfortable with terms like
"eugenics" and "population control." This alarmed
the leaders of the American Birth Control
League, who were aware that this shifting
attitude can impact both their ability to
implement their racial agenda and their ability
to raise funds. They were also aware that
the connections between the American Birth
Control League and the Nazis were starting
to become known. Marketing research had shown
them that in this environment, they needed
to move away from words like "control," in
favor of less threatening words like "planning."
So in 1942, they changed the name of the organization.
From then on, the American Birth Control League
would officially be known as Planned Parenthood.
[Lloyd] The important thing to understand here is that
this name change did not change the organization's
agenda. The same people were still in control,
they were still obsessed with race, and they
were still dedicated to eugenics. Today, defenders
of Margaret Sanger will often try to hide
her racism by claiming that she was not really
a eugenicist, and that Planned Parenthood
was never part of the eugenics movement. But
the truth is that, as late as 1956, the American
Eugenics Society listed Sanger as a member
of the organization. In addition, many of
Sanger's colleagues and the people whose writing
she published, as well as many of Planned
Parenthood's officers, were also known to
be members.
[René] In fact, the ties between Sanger and
the eugenics movement were so well established
that in the 1920's, Sanger pursued a plan
to merge the American Birth Control League,
or Planned Parenthood, as it was later called,
with the American Eugenics Society. However,
despite Sanger's efforts, the merger plan
died after being rejected by the leadership
of the American Eugenic Society. As an alternative,
Sanger then proposed that the two organizations
at least combine their publications into one
magazine. But again, that idea was also rejected
by the American Eugenic Society.
about a speech she gave in 1926 at a Ku Klux
Klan rally in Silverlake, New Jersey. The
Planned Parenthood founder bragged about the
fact that, afterward, she was invited by 12
other Klan chapters to speak at their events.
[Crutcher] At about the same time the American
Birth Control League was changing its name
to Planned Parenthood, a lot of books and
reports began coming out that attempted to
put a happy face on eugenics. And many of
them were written by people that were associated
with Planned Parenthood. The strategy here
was obvious: since the Nazis had turned eugenics
into a four-letter word, the American eugenics
movement decided it was time to lay low. So
most of their writings during this time period
downplayed the role of eugenics and couch
their agenda in terms of helping the African-American.
Perhaps the best example of this is a 1,500
page book by eugenicist Gunnar Myrdal, called
"An American Dilemma, the Negro Problem in
Modern Democracy." Interestingly, this book
was not the result of some mom-and-pop operation.
Myrdal had 75 assistants working on this project
whose salaries were being paid for by the
Carnegie Corporation. And Carnegie had been
a major player in the eugenics movement for
many years.
[Eller] Gunnar Myrdal and his wife, Alva,
were both involved in eugenics. They were
funded by both the Rockefeller Foundation
and the Carnegie Corporation. They were also
closely linked to a Swedish eugenics program,
which forcibly sterilized 66,000 people. When
you read chapter 7 of this book, it becomes
undeniable that this is a blueprint for the
modern eugenics movement that we still see
in the United States today. The bottom line
is that Gunnar Myrdal believed that not only
could blacks not help themselves, he felt
that nobody could help them. And the only
solution in his eyes was to get rid of them.
"Commonly it is considered a great misfortune
for America that Negro slaves were ever imported.
The presence of Negroes in America today is
usually considered a 'plight' of the nation."
Chapter 7, page 167.
"...all white Americans agree that,  if the
Negro is to be eliminated, he must be eliminated
slowly so as not to hurt any living individual Negroes."
Chapter 7, page 168.
"The only way possible of decreasing Negro
population is by means of controlling fertility."
Chapter 7, page 170.
"...birth control facilities could be extended
relatively more to Negroes than to whites,
since Negroes are more concentrated in the
lower income and education classes."
Chapter 7, page 176.
[Eller] One thing I find very revealing about
chapter 7 is the first paragraph. Myrdal uses
U.S. Census Bureau figures to show that between
1790 and 1940, the black population in the
United States increased 17 times. At the same
time, those Census Bureau figures show that
the white population increased 37 times. However,
neither Myrdal nor any other eugenicist wrote
anything about what to do about that part
of the population that was increasing twice
as fast as the black population.
Gunnar Myrdal's book on how to resolve what
he called the "Negro problem" was published
in 1944 by Harper & Brothers of New York.
Four years earlier, the same company, which is
today known as Harper Collins, had also published
a book by one of the founding members of the
American Eugenic Society. At the time that
Harper & Brothers published these books, its
president was a man named Cass Canfield, who
would later become the national president
of Planned Parenthood.
"We hope that the restraint of population
growth can come about through voluntary means.
But if it does not, involuntary methods will
be used."
Dr. Donald Minkler, 1972.
[René] Donald Minkler was the President of
the American Association of Planned Parenthood
Physicians and a member of the Board of Directors
of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Like many of those in the eugenics movement,
he understood that their plans would not always
be voluntarily adopted and that the use of
governmental coercion or even force might
one day be necessary.
[Lloyd] The idea of forced eugenics was not
something that suddenly developed in the 1970's.
In a 1929 speech, American eugenicist Samuel
Holmes had proposed that mandatory birth control
should be used as a tool to eliminate what
he called the menace to the white race that
had been created by increases in black population.
His solution was to have a quota system in
which the right to have a child would be controlled
by the government and determined by race.
At the time, Holmes was on the National Council
of the American Birth Control League, which
would later become known as Planned Parenthood.
[René] Then in 1936, eugenicist Julian Huxley
proposed that the genetically inferior classes
could be made to have fewer children if they
were denied easy access to welfare. Another
part of this proposal was that medical care
to these same people should be restricted
in order to reduce the survival rates of the
children they did have. He also called for
the forced sterilization of anyone who was
unemployed beyond a certain length of time.
Huxley was later honored by Planned Parenthood
and was a featured speaker at one of their
annual conventions.
[Lloyd] The reality is that the views of people
like Samuel Holmes and Julian Huxley were
never uncommon within the American eugenics
community. In 1969, a professor at the University
of California, Dr. Garrett Hardin called it
insanity to rely on volunteerism to control
population. Harden was a member of the American
Eugenics Society and an outspoken advocate
of government-enforced birth control, saying
that citizens should be willing to give up
their right to breed for the betterment of
society. In 1980, he was given Planned Parenthood's
highest national award. He and his wife would
later kill themselves in a joint suicide pact.
[René] There were, of course, some within
the eugenics movement who were uncomfortable
with the idea of using force, and they would
often express their reservations about it
in public. But when pressed, virtually none
of them would rule it out, including Planned
Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger.
This was written by Sanger in a personal letter
to Katherine Dexter McCormick. McCormick was
an heir to the International Harvester fortune,
and would later use part of her immense wealth
to fund the development of the birth control pill.
[René] In 1966, an example of the course
of power of state eugenics laws was seen in
Maryland, when three young mothers applied
for welfare benefits. All three were arrested
for child neglect, even though the authorities
never claimed to have any evidence of abuse
or neglect. Instead, the women were held under
a state law, which stated that simply being
unmarried and pregnant was child neglect.
The judge in this case warned the women that
if they ever became pregnant again, the State
would take custody of all their children.
Officials in Prince George's County, where
the arrests took place, stated that welfare
recipients could avoid being prosecuted under
this law by submitting to state-sponsored
birth control education.
In 1934, Adolf Hitler sent a letter to American
eugenicist, Leon Whitney, complimenting him
for a book he had written on sterilization.
Whitney was the former Executive Secretary
of the American Eugenic Society and a colleague
of Margaret Sanger's. Sanger also published
his writings in the Birth Control Review.
In the book that Hitler was praising, Whitney
had written that America could eliminate what
he called the slum elements of society by
sterilizing the lowest 25 percent of its population.
He claimed this was necessary because such
people are "too stupid to understand or practice
even simple methods of contraception... Besides,"
he said, "the country would hardly miss them."
One of the people he was talking about was
named Elaine Riddick.
[Riddick] At the age of 13, I became pregnant.
I was raped by a guy that lived across the
street from me. He snatched me off the street
and molested me, and threatened my life, and
said if I ever told anyone that he would kill
me. When they was delivering my son, they
sterilized me at the same time. They had approached
my grandmother and said that if she wanted
to continue to receive supplement welfare
and food stamps, or, at this time, they was
giving out these surplus foods—canned
cheese, I think it was, or powdered eggs—and
said that if she did not sign the ex, that
they were gonna stop her supplements. Mind
you, my grandmother was illiterate. She had
never ever gone to school. She didn't understand
what it was. So she signed the ex and they
did this to me. I did not find out that they
had sterilized me until I was 19 years-old.
I asked the State of North Carolina why they
did this to me, and they said that because
I was feeble-minded, that I would not be able
to take care of myself, I would not be able
to tie my shoes, that I was just incompetent.
The State of North Carolina also said that
I had never before—at the age of 13, I had
never performed a day's work in my life. They
couldn't get me to do anything. But at the
age of 13? I mean, shouldn't I have been in—should
I not have been in school? They were saying
that feeble-mindedness is hereditary. So they
sterilized me so I would not produce my kind.
Mind you, I am not illiterate nor am I feeble-minded.
I never went into high school, but yet I still
acquired a college degree. They also justified
that my child or my children would be feeble-minded.
My son is the president of his own semiconductor
company. He has his own construction company,
and he has his own real estate company. I
just—I mean, how can you think that your
government allowed or allowing these things
to happen to a person, a life? You don't
have—you can't say nothing, you have no
rights. To me, they took away all of my rights.
They sterilized kids from my understanding,
in my knowledge, as young as 8 years of age.
I don't know what an 8 eight-year-old can
do that could cause them to do this to them.
The only reason I can give myself is that
because they are black.
In 1961, social worker Sue Casebolt had been
installed as the Executive Secretary of the
North Carolina Eugenics Board. At a board
meeting held three weeks later, she stated that
she was going to keep a file on every child
whose name reached her desk, so that they
could be picked up as soon as they reached
childbearing age. Casebolt was still on the
board in 1968 when it approved the sterilization
of 14 year-old Elaine Riddick.
Holmes made this statement in his ruling on
the constitutionality of Virginia's forced
sterilization law. It mirrored the views of
President Theodore Roosevelt, who had originally
appointed Holmes to the Supreme Court. In
a 1913 letter to American Eugenic Society
Founder Charles Davenport, Roosevelt had stated
that the country had no business allowing
citizens of the wrong type to reproduce.
[Lloyd] In 1907, Indiana had become the first
of more than 30 states to pass sterilization
laws. And some of those laws stayed on the
books well into the 1970's. In fact, the state
of Oregon did its last sterilization in 1981,
and did not abolish its eugenics board until
October of 1983.
[René] Some states practice sterilization
without ever creating an official eugenics
board. In those instances, few, if any records
were kept. And in the states that did keep
records, many have never been made available
to the public. But in just those states that
have released their records, it is known that
at least 60,000 Americans were sterilized,
and they were disproportionately black. In
addition, during a 1973 lawsuit, a federal
judge estimated that as many as 150,000 additional
low-income women may have been sterilized
under federal programs alone. These sterilizations
were often performed without the patient's
knowledge or consent and sometimes against
their will. It was also common for social
workers to tell welfare recipients that they
would lose their benefits if they did not
agree to be sterilized. In some cases, poor
families were even threatened with the loss
of welfare, unless they brought their children
in for sterilization. The result was that
some of the people sterilized were as young
as 10 years-old.
[Lloyd] In the first 6 months of 1972, one
hospital in Aiken County, South Carolina sterilized
over one-third of the Medicaid patients who
were there to give birth, and all but one
of these women were black. One patient said
she was told by all three of the county's
obstetricians that they would not deliver
her baby unless she agreed to be sterilized.
Her claim was later confirmed by each of the
doctors. Another patient said she was told
by one of these same physicians that he was
tired of having to help support the babies
of welfare recipients, and that she could
either agree to be sterilized or find another doctor.
"The law of nature says that only the fit
shall survive. When a nation disregards this
law by protecting the unfit, and encouraging
their multiplication, this nation invites
inevitable destruction. As far as New Jersey
is concerned, sterilization is an economic
necessity, and as far as the United States
is concerned, sterilization is a matter of
national preservation."
Fred Sheppard, Assemblyman.
Fred Sheppard was a member of the New Jersey
State Legislature. He made this statement
upon his introduction of a sterilization bill
in March of 1942.
[René] In some parts of the country, Planned
Parenthood was closely associated with these
state eugenics boards and was often a referral
agency for them. But the system did not always
run smoothly. In 1969, when the number of
sterilizations approved by the Iowa State
Eugenics Board began to drop, the Board was
attacked in the press by the Executive Director
of Planned Parenthood, Robert Webber. He said
that he was alarmed by the decline in numbers
and that the Eugenics Board should expand
its approval criteria. Board Chairman Dr.
S. M. Korson responded that the board's guidelines
were already fairly broad. He pointed out
that approvals were routinely given for young
girls for no reason other than the Board's
speculation that they might likely one day
engage in immoral behavior without the capacity
for being wives and mothers. At that point,
Webber publicly scolded the Board and told
them that they should either increase the
number of sterilizations or quit.
From its beginning, Planned Parenthood always
had powerful ties to the American eugenics
community. In fact, in many places, they were
often one and the same. For example, when
the first birth control clinic was opened
in Arkansas, it was operated by the Arkansas
Eugenics Association, and overseen by a woman
named Hilda Cornish. Later, the Arkansas Eugenics
Association would become the Arkansas state
affiliate of Planned Parenthood, and Cornish
would be named its Executive Director.
During the four months that American Birth Control
League Director Lothrop Stoddard was in Nazi
Germany, he not only met with Hitler and S.S.
Chief Heinrich Himmler, he also attended one
of the Nazi eugenics courts.
"The first case I saw looked like an excellent
candidate for sterilization. A man in his
mid-thirties, he was rather ape-like in appearance—
receding forehead, flat nose with flaring nostrils,
thick lips, and heavy prognathous jaw. Not
vicious-looking, but gross and rather dull."
Lothrop Stoddard, Director, American Birth Control League, later known as Planned Parenthood.
Given the admiration that Adolf Hitler expressed
for the American eugenics movement, it is
not unlikely that he modeled the eugenics
courts in Nazi Germany after the state eugenics
courts in the U.S. In both countries, feeble-mindedness
was routinely used as a catch-all justification
for sterilization, and the diagnosis of feeble-mindedness
was almost always left up to the judgment of
the person advocating the sterilization.
"First, the white man tells me to sit in the
back of the bus, now it looks like he wants
me to sleep under the bed. Back in the days
of slavery, black folks couldn't grow kids
fast enough for white folks to harvest. Now
that we got a little taste of power, white
folks wants to call a moratorium on having
babies."
Comedian Dick Gregory, Ebony Magazine, 1971.
[Lloyd] By the 1960's, the American eugenics
movement had been reasonably successful in
getting sterilization laws and prohibitions
against interracial marriage passed. They
also had some success in getting states to
mandate sterilization for those convicted
of even nonsexual crimes, and some states
began to require sterilization as a condition
for receiving welfare or health care. Meanwhile,
another state proposed jail time for anyone
who had a child out of wedlock, unless they
agreed to be sterilized. And at least one
state requires sterilization as a condition
of being released from custody.
[René] But these laws were not producing
the results Planned Parenthood and others
in the eugenics movement wanted. They also
began to fear that federal courts were going
to eventually rule that these kinds of measures
were unconstitutional. At about the same time,
however, something new was being introduced
to American society. It was called the birth
control pill, and the eugenics movement quickly
saw it as the perfect solution for controlling
the population of people they had always seen
as oversexed, unsophisticated, and lazy. But
what they would eventually discover is that,
while the pill was enthusiastically embraced
by whites, it was generally rejected by blacks,
despite the fact that Planned Parenthood focused
its marketing on the African-American community,
and located the vast majority of its facilities
in black neighborhoods.
[Lloyd] What Planned Parenthood and the rest
of the eugenics movement did not count on
was that many blacks did not want to reduce
their numbers. In fact, they saw high birth
rates as the most effective way to increase
their power in the American political system.
The other reality was that an increasing number
of African-Americans were becoming suspicious
that a hidden agenda was behind the birth
control revolution. Even those who once supported
the idea of population control were beginning
to sense that it actually meant black population
control. This feeling was evident in June
of 1970, when the Black Caucus walked out
of the First National Congress on Optimum
Population and Environment, being held in
Chicago. Felton Alexander of the National
Urban League and the Chairman of the Black
Caucus said the action was taken because of
clear and unmistakable evidence that the purpose
of the conference was to legitimize the extermination
of the black population. By this time, many
other civil rights advocates were beginning
to see the same thing.
"Birth control and sterilization in the wrong
hands would be more deadly to Negroes than
all the tanks, riot guns, cattle prods, billy
clubs and shackles we have overcome in the past."
Dr. Leroy Swift, Obstetrician/Gynecologist, 1968.
[René] As it became clear that a growing
number of African-Americans were connecting
the dots between birth control and black genocide,
eugenics organizations began calling for the
U.S. government to add birth control chemicals
to the nation's food and water supply. It
was even suggested that this strategy could
be specifically targeted at urban neighborhoods.
This idea was widely embraced in the eugenics
movement and taken seriously enough by the
government to be discussed at a 1969 meeting
at the United Nations. Under the plan being
considered, a couple could apply to the government
for permission to have a child, and if approved,
they would be given an antidote to the population
control chemicals they had ingested in their
food and water. Interestingly, the idea that
government should have some sort of licensing
agreement to regulate who would and would
not be allowed to give birth was not a new
one. In 1934, Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret
Sanger had proposed that the U.S. government
implement a system in which women would not
have the legal right to have a child without
a permit from the government, and that these
permits would only be good for one baby.
[Lloyd] But eventually, proposals like forced
sterilization, chemicals in the food and water
supply, and government control of childbearing
were abandoned by most people in the eugenics
movement. Despite the fact that many of them
openly advocated such ideas, they would come
to realize that there was really no practical
way to carry them out. But for all their failures,
what the eugenics movement had accomplished
was to lay the foundation for the next phase
of their plan. And this is where they would
find the success that they had been chasing
for over 100 years.
[Interviewer] What would you say is now the number one
cause of death in the African-American community?
-Heart disease?
-Oh HIV/AIDS.
-Diabetes?
-Cancer.
-AIDS
-I'll say heart disease.
-AIDS.
-From what I heard is probably AIDS, you know.
-Probably heart disease.
-I think heart disease.
-HIV, gang violence.
[Interviewer] What if I told you the real answer was abortion?
-Oh... wow...
Since 1973, legal abortion has killed more
African-Americans than AIDS, cancer, diabetes,
heart disease, and violent crime combined.
Every week, more blacks die in American abortion
clinics than were killed in the entire Vietnam
War. And the largest chain of abortion clinics
in the United States is operated by Planned Parenthood.
[Childress] We have now reached a point in
this country that African-American women,
though they make up 12 percent of the population,
they account for 37 percent of the abortions.
An African-American baby is almost 5 times
more likely to be aborted than a white child.
The abortion industry at this point kills
as many African-American people every four days
as the Klan killed in 150 years. And you can
truly say the most dangerous place for an
African-American to be is in the womb of their
African-American mother
[King] All across America, you can stand outside
of the abortion clinics and see a steady stream
of black women coming in and out. But somewhere
along the way, we got the idea that this is
a white issue or a conservative issue, or
a Republican issue, and therefore it's not
an issue that we have to be concerned about.
This same attitude has allowed Planned Parenthood
and other members of the abortion industry
to carry out this genocide right under our
very noses. Right now in America, about half
of our babies are being killed in the womb.
And in certain parts of America, more of our
babies are being aborted than are being born.
"When 17,000 aborted babies were
found in a dumpster outside of a pathology
laboratory in Los Angeles, California, some
12 to 15,000 were observed to
be black."
Irma Clardy Craven, Chairman, Minneapolis
Commission on Human Rights, and Secretary of the Urban League.
[Crutcher] To understand what the agenda was
behind the legalization of abortion, all you
need to do is look at the statistics from
the U.S. Government. Studies from the CDC
show that prior to the legalization of abortion,
approximately 80 percent of all illegal abortions
were done on white women. One study in New
York even found that white women had 5 times
as many abortions as black women. But at the
moment abortion became legal that began to
reverse. And that's why the legalization of
abortion was so crucial for the eugenics movement.
Legalization created the ability to market
abortion in the black community, and from
a eugenic standpoint, that changed everything.
[Childress] These people cannot have it both
ways. First, they say that birth control will
reduce the number of abortions. Then they
flood our neighborhoods with birth control
clinics. And what's the result? Our abortion
rate skyrockets. So either they lied about
the fact that birth control would reduce abortions
in our neighborhoods, or this is the results
and the purpose they wanted from the beginning.
At this point, I truly have the tendency to
believe the latter.
[Lloyd] In 1973, the year abortion was legalized
nationwide, Dr. Christopher Tietze produced
a study on abortion demographics at the request
of the Population Council, a New York-based
eugenics organization. In this report, Tietze
confirmed previous research showing that when
abortion is illegal, the abortion rate is
much higher for white women than for black
women, but that this completely reverses whenever
abortion is legalized. At the time he published
these findings, Tietze was a consultant to
both Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion
Federation.
[René] Other researchers within the eugenics
and abortion movements were also documenting
that easy access to abortion clinics produces
higher abortion rates in the surrounding area.
And at least one expert discovered that having
a nearby clinic is a bigger factor in the
black abortion rate than it is in the white
abortion rate. At the same time this data
is being circulated, Planned Parenthood and
the rest of the abortion lobby were in the
process of locating the vast majority of their
facilities in minority neighborhoods. Then,
in 1974, a study was released on population
control that had been conducted by researchers
at three major universities. By analyzing
data obtained from Planned Parenthood's own
records, they determined that the number one
factor in deciding whether a county in the
United States provided free or low-cost family
planning services was not poverty, but race.
The researchers said their findings seem to
support the contention of many civil rights
activists that such programs are less intended
to assist the poor than they are to control
the growth of the black population.
"The best way to hate a nigger is to hate him before he's born."
Leander Perez, Louisiana State Judge, 1970.
Two years after the Director of Iowa Planned
Parenthood had publicly attacked the state's
eugenics board for not approving enough sterilizations,
a bill was introduced in the Iowa Legislature
to legalize abortion. Despite having the support
of both the state Republican Party and the
state Democratic Party, as well as strong
backing from the Governor, the bill would
be defeated almost single-handedly by the
only African-American in the Iowa Legislature.
"Proponents have argued this bill is for blacks
and the poor who want abortions and can't
afford one. This is the phoniest and most
preposterous argument of all. I represent
the inner city where the majority of blacks
and poor live, and I challenge anyone here
to show me a waiting line of either blacks
or poor whites who are wanting an abortion."
Iowa State Representative June Franklin, Democrat,
1971.
[Lloyd] From the beginning, it was obvious
that racism was the driving force behind the
eugenics movement. While it was true that
from time to time, these elitists and social
engineers would toss a few lower-class whites
in among the feeble-minded and worthless who
should be bred out of society, it was also
true that they never seem to include blacks
among the best and the brightest who should
be bred in. And at the same time the country
was being saturated with calls for population
control and family planning, the facilities
to carry them out were pouring into the black
community. After all, no one was suggesting
that there were too many white people in the
world. And realities like those did not go
unnoticed by early civil rights activists.
For them, the reason birth control and abortion
were being pushed was not a secret.
"Those whom we could not get rid of in the
rice paddies of Vietnam, we now propose to
exterminate if necessary, eliminate if possible,
in the OB wards and gynecology clinics of
our urban hospitals."
Jesse Jackson, 1971.
"I believe the entire question of abortions
is just one more in the continuous series
of events to eliminate the black population."
Father George Clemens, Jet Magazine, 1973.
"The abortion law hides behind the guise of
helping women, when in reality it will attempt
to destroy our people."
Brenda Heissen, New York Chapter Black Panther
Party, July 1970.
"The racist tells you to take birth control
pills to kill, to murder life that might have existed
if you had not. They are planning
mass extermination of
people they consider dispensable."
Van Keys, Oakland Chapter Black Panther Party, 1969.
"A true revolutionary cares about the people—
he cares to the point that he is willing to put
his life on the line to help the masses of
poor and oppressed people. He would never
think of killing his unborn child."
Detroit Chapter Black Panther Party, 1970.
"Who the hell is getting the pill? The Mexican
and the Negro. Do you want to wipe us out?"
Cesar Chavez, 1967.
[Lloyd] On the day after the assassination
of Dr. Martin Luther King, a memorial service
was held at Howard University in Washington,
D.C. As mourners left the auditorium, they
encountered about 600 people attending a rally
outside. Several speakers were heard warning
the crowd that population control was being
used as a weapon of black genocide. Among
the speakers who gave this warning was noted
civil rights activist, Stokely Carmichael.
[René] A year later, Pittsburgh police were
called when 200 sticks of dynamite were discovered
near a local Catholic Church. An investigation
revealed that the dynamite was not intended
for the church, but was instead left behind
by civil rights activists William Bouie Haden.
Haden later admitted that he and his group,
the United Movement for Progress, had planned
to use the explosives to blow up nearby Planned
Parenthood facilities because they were practicing
black genocide. Haden had once stated that
any African-American who supported allowing
Planned Parenthood into black neighborhoods
was an Uncle Tom.
"Into the black community step Planned Parenthood.
Only when they came into the black community,
they've become planned black genocide."
William Bouie Haden, Civil Rights Activist, 1971.
[Lloyd] Among those associated with Haden
was an African-American physician named Dr.
Charles Greenlee. Greenlee had been a staunch
supporter of Planned Parenthood, but became
suspicious of the organization after noticing
that black neighborhoods in his city were,
as he described it, saturated with Planned
Parenthood facilities. While nearby white
neighborhoods that were just as poor did not
have a single one.
[René] In an article published by the Black
Muslim newspaper, Muhammad Speaks, Greenlee
said he had also discovered that deceptive
materials were being circulated in the ghettos
and delivered to the homes of black women,
warning them that welfare recipients who had
additional children would lose their public
assistance. Greenlee knew that wasn't true,
and concluded that Planned Parenthood was
pushing a hidden agenda. It was then he severed
his ties to the organization and started working
against it.
"The idea is to make less niggers so they
won't have to build houses for them. If we
keep producing, they're either going to have
to kill us or grant us full citizenship."
Dr. Charles Greenlee, Civil Rights Activist, 1968.
"It is strange that they chose to start talking
about population control at the same time
that black people in America and people of
color around the world are demanding their
rightful place as human citizens, and their
rightful share of the material wealth in the
world."
Jesse Jackson, 1977.
[Broden] It is interesting how everyone assumes
that the pro-life movement in America began
in 1973 with Roe vs. Wade. But we who were
around during the civil rights movement and
struggle of the 1960's, we know that the first
anti-abortion groups were organizations like
the Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, and
other community organizations. These folks
were speaking out against both birth control
and abortion long before the contemporary
pro-life groups of today existed. But one
of the problems with the civil rights movement
was that there was far too many men and women
who were willing to sell out the community,
and a lot of powerful influential African-Americans
knew that they had to be willing to turn and
look the other way in order to advance their
own personal political agendas.
[Childress] In 1972, those members of the
Congressional Black Caucus, such as Charles
Diggs, did not trust the abortion industry
or those who were espousing a population control
or family health. And they were suspicious
of them. But when the money began to flow,
and just as it was with Jesse Jackson when
he found out that indeed he could get funding
and monies to run for President from these
people, he flip-flopped in his position. Because
he once said abortion is black genocide. What
happens to a mind of a person in the moral
fabric of a nation that can abort a baby without
a pang of conscience? Where will we be 20
years from today? But when Reverend Jesse
Jackson realized he needed money to run for
President, all of the sudden, the most important
civil rights issue is a woman's right to choose.
[Broden] In 1975, Jesse Jackson called for
the ban of abortion through a constitutional
amendment. And in an interview in Jet Magazine,
he referred to abortion as genocide. But Jesse
Jackson, on the other hand, wanted to become
President. And the Democratic Party at that
time had sold out completely to Planned Parenthood
and the eugenics crowd. And Jesse Jackson
went along to get along. And don't ever think
that he is the only one. The unfortunate thing
we face, whether we're talking about individuals
or organization, there's never been a shortage
of black leaders who are willing to sell us
down the river if it's enough money and political
power in it for them.
[Yuille] I've been grappling with the fact
that the NAACP is in bed with the very organization
that has brought black genocide to our community.
Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther
King, has tried on at least three occasions
to bring to this organization's attention
the black genocidal plot of people like Margaret
Sanger and Planned Parenthood to exterminate
the black community. And the stonewalling
has been astounding. Alveda King literally
has gone to the street, along with myself,
to say to the NAACP, “please deal with this
issue of black genocide." The NAACP has responded
by hiding and trying to prevent their convention-goers
to hear about black genocide. They've even
gone to the extent of using buses to block
our demonstration about black genocide in
front of Cobo Hall, where their convention
was going on. They have literally put black
paper across their windows so that the convention-goers
at the NAACP convention could not see the
demonstration going outside that included
Alveda King. There is definitely a conspiratorial
plot being hatched and has been hatched by
the NAACP to keep from their people the fact
that they are co-conspirators in the genocide
of their own people.
[Childress] When you look at the number of
African-Americans who betrayed us over the
years, it's not always clear whether they
are uninformed, or just out-and-out traitors.
When we see pro-choice politicians defending
abortion on television, do they really understand
the implications of abortion? And that it
is certainly used for black genocide?
[Yuille] Reverend Benjamin Hooks, one of the
future—former presidents of the NAACP, once
personally told me that the NAACP would not
bring this subject to the floor because it—what
they believed it would tear up the NAACP.
Even the media has conspired with the NAACP
to keep this issue from the attention of the
black community and the public at large. I
have seen the news media literally hide their
trucks so that they would not be in a position
to have to cover the demonstrations in front
of Cobo Hall, only to bring them out after
the demonstrators had left. This is an outrage
that the black community is having the life
of its babies destroyed, and the NAACP and
the media are knowingly conspiring to keep
this information from the public. This is
an outrage and it should be dealt with by
every fair-minded American.
[Crutcher] When we look at this issue of civil
rights leaders who sell out, even when they
clearly know that birth control and abortion
are being used for black genocide, we need
to understand that by the 1960's, population
control, especially black population control,
had become almost a religion for America's
white power structure. And from the start,
they made it clear that if you cross them,
or if you challenge their agenda, they would
chop you off at the knees. And that remains
true to this day, whether you're talking about
the liberal social engineers who control the
Democratic Party, or the wealthy elitists
who control the Republican Party, or the media,
or the academic community. These people have
created a kind of family planning cartel that
does not tolerate dissent. And they have always
been especially ruthless about this when it
comes to African-Americans. The perfect example
of this was seen in the case of Samuel Yette.
Mister Yette was an award-winning journalist
who had earned a Master's Degree from Indiana
University, was a U.S. Air Force veteran of
the Korean War, and served as Special Assistant
for Civil Rights to the Director of the U.S.
Office of Economic Opportunity. He was also
a professor of journalism at Howard University,
and a columnist for several magazines and
newspapers. In 1968, he had become the first
African-American reporter hired by Newsweek
Magazine, and he quickly became their Washington
D.C. Bureau Correspondent. But then, 3 years
later, he wrote a book that exposed high-level
plans within the United States to use birth
control and abortion as instruments of black
genocide. Then, immediately after his book
was released to the public, Yette was called
in to his supervisor’s office and fired.
At that meeting, he was informed that his
dismissal had been orchestrated by the Nixon
White House. The next year, Yette told the
New York Times that pressure had been put
on Newsweek to get him out of Washington.
Then, later, despite the fact that his book
was selling well, had received at least two
national awards, and was being used as a textbook
in over 100 colleges, Yette's publisher dropped
him, and the book went off the market. What's
important to recognize about this situation
and others like it was that this family planning
cartel was sending a message to those who
might have influence within the African-American
community. Whether they were politicians,
or journalists, or college professors, or
civil rights leaders, they were being warned
that when it comes to population control,
they only had two options: they could either
get on board with it, or they could keep their
mouths shut. And when people like Samuel Yette
told them what they could do with their two
options, they paid a price that few others
had the character or the courage to pay.
The copyright to Samuel Yette's book was eventually
given back to him. Then, in 1982, Yette used
his own money to republish it. The foreword
of that edition was written by a well-known
civil rights activist and Co-Founder of both
the Harlem Writers Guild, and the National
Cultural Committee of the NAACP. His name
was John Oliver Killens, and in that foreword,
he gave his analysis of the relationship between
family planning and the black community:
[Lloyd] In 1939, Margaret Sanger wrote that
in a letter to fellow eugenicist Clarence
Gamble, regarding the American Birth Control
League's Negro Project. Gamble was an heir
to the Procter & Gamble fortune, and a major
financial backer of Sanger's. He also provided
funding for other eugenics projects, and even
gave money directly to the North Carolina
Eugenics Board that sterilized Elaine Riddick.
In fact, in 1947, he called for the expansion
of that state sterilization program, saying
that for every feeble minded person sterilized,
40 more were polluting and degrading the bloodlines
of future generations with their defective
genes.
[René] Sanger's letter makes it clear that
the eugenics movement understood they would
need to neutralize the opposition they might
get from the church. They also knew that this
would be especially crucial within the African-American
community. Their strategy was to manipulate
church leadership into selling this illusion
that support for eugenics was not inconsistent
with the Christian faith. To do this, they
would often recruit pastors to be front men
for eugenics policies and provide them with
prepackaged sermons on eugenics. They also
held contests in which awards would be given
to the ministers who came up with the best
pro-eugenic sermons on their own. This approach
proved so effective that an almost identical
strategy would be adopted by the American
Abortion Lobby.
In January of 1973, the Supreme Court legalized
abortion on demand throughout the United States,
and almost immediately the Religious Coalition
for Abortion Rights was formed. Less than
a year earlier, the following conversation
had taken place in the Oval Office of the
White House. It began on the 30th of March,
1972, and continued four days later on the
3rd of April. This is an actual recording
of that conversation. The speakers are the
President of the United States, Republican
Richard Nixon, members of his Senior Staff.
The Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights
was originally created with a financial backing
of John Rockefeller, and its current president
is an African-American who was once appointed
to the Washington D.C. City Council by Richard
Nixon. In the early 1990's, the organization
changed its name and is today known as the
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
[Lloyd] In 1969, a meeting of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
also known as UNESCO, proposed that an American
Population Commission be created with a quote
"large budget for propaganda" unquote. Four
months later, Republican President Richard
Nixon signed legislation establishing the
Commission on Population Growth and the American
future. The bill authorizing this new initiative
had been passed with overwhelming support
from congressional Democrats, and was chaired
by John Rockefeller. The Executive Director
of the project was to be Dr. Charles F. Westoff,
who was also a member of both the American
Eugenics Society, and Planned Parenthood's
National Advisory Council.
[René] Another member of this new commission
was Dr. Joseph Beasley. In the 1960's, Beasley
oversaw an aggressive eugenics program that
concentrated on black neighborhoods in New
Orleans with the stated intention of a lowering
welfare cost. This project would eventually
be described by Planned Parenthood President
Alan Guttmacher as the number one success
story in the history of American birth control
movement. It also led to Beasley being elected
Chairman of the Board of Planned Parenthood
in 1970. Then in 1975, Beasley was sent to
federal prison for conspiring to defraud the
U.S. Government of $778,000 that had been
allocated for the project. In court, a local
black civil rights activist named Sherman
Copelin testified that he took payoffs from
Beasley for helping him to convince residents
of the targeted neighborhoods that birth control
was not black genocide.
In 1969, William H. Draper was appointed to
represent the United States on the United
Nations Population Commission. Draper had
once proposed that government-sponsored population
control efforts among the poor be accelerated
in order to deal with racial unrest, and to
cure what he called the ghetto problem. Draper
was on the governing body of Planned Parenthood,
and had personally raised more than 4 million
dollars for the organization. That same year,
a New York Times article about Planned Parenthood
said the organization's Board of Directors
was dominated by people who are both white
and wealthy. The article went on to quote
one of those board members as saying what
it all comes down to is that we want the poor
to stop breeding while we retain our freedom
to have large families. It's strictly a class
point of view.
"There is ample evidence that government programs
designed for poor black folks emphasize birth
control and abortion availability, both measures
obviously designed to limit black population."
Comedian Dick Gregory, Ebony Magazine, 1971.
"It takes little imagination to see that the
unborn black baby is the real object of many
abortionists.”
Erma Clardy Craven, Chairman, Minneapolis
Commission on Human Rights, and Secretary of the Urban League.
"It was not until the mid 60's that blacks
began to realize that what was called urban
renewal was, in fact, what one black city
planner labeled ‘Negro removal.’"
Roy Ennis, National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality, Ebony Magazine, 1974.
[Lloyd] To a large and growing number of 1960's
civil rights activists, it became obvious
that family planning was just a code word
for abortion and birth control, and that it
was being pushed by the government as a way
to avoid putting money into the black community.
This conclusion was reinforced by statements
like those of Democratic President, Lyndon
B. Johnson, who, in June of 1965, stated that
every 5 dollars the government spent on population
control was worth more than 100 dollars invested
in economic growth. Then, at the urging of
Republican Congressman George Bush, Johnson
became the first U.S. president to endorse
federal funding for birth control.
In 1966, he would also accept Planned Parenthood's
highest award for his policies pushing family
planning on foreign countries.
[René] It is said about this same time, the
political leaders from both parties began
to increase their demands that aid to the
poor, whether abroad or within the United
States, be tied to birth control. In 1965,
former Republican President Dwight Eisenhower
complained that the United States was spending
money to slow the population growth of responsible
families, while at the same time, providing
financial incentives for ignorant, feeble-minded
and lazy people to have more babies. He said
that history would rightly condemn the United
States if we didn't link welfare to family
planning. At that time, Eisenhower was the
co-chairman of a Planned Parenthood fundraising
campaign, along with former Democratic president
Harry S. Truman.
[Lloyd] John Ehrlichman, who was an assistant
to President Richard Nixon, wrote that Nixon
once told him that African-Americans could
not really benefit from federal programs because
they are genetically inferior to whites. Later,
Nixon would label birth control a national
priority and signed legislation to make it
available as a service of the U.S. Government.
Then, in March of 1972, the Commission on
Population Growth and the American Future,
which Nixon had created 3 years earlier with
the help of congressional Democrats, began
calling for the nationwide legalization of
abortion.
[René] The concept that abortion and birth
control could be used to save the government
money was well established by this point in
history. In 1969, Joseph Kershaw, who was
a researcher with the U.S. Government's Office
of Economic Opportunity, stated that the agency
had closely studied the poverty issue, and
found that the single most cost-effective
way for the government to address it was through
family planning. In other words, through abortion
and birth control. And that sort of thinking
is still very much alive today. On January
25th, 2009, the Speaker of the United States
House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, said
on an ABC News program that the government's
economic stimulus package should include a
large increase in spending for population
control. She said that this could save the
state and federal governments the cost of
having to pay
for the health care and education of poor children.
Not surprisingly, Pelosi has a 100 percent approval rating from Planned Parenthood.
[Crutcher] At one time, it was common to hear
politicians and elected officials openly talking
about the need for population control in the
black community, or saying things like one
dollar spent on family planning is worth five
dollars spent on economic development. But
since we don't hear that sort of thing anymore,
it would be easy to conclude that the Government
is not still involved in black genocide, but
that's not the case. Look, it's no longer
necessary for the government to be directly
involved in black genocide, because that's
what they hired Planned Parenthood for. I
mean, it can't just be a coincidence that,
at the same time when government population
control programs were backing away from specifically
targeting black neighborhoods—at that same
time, the state and federal funding for Planned
Parenthood was being increased by leaps and
bounds. To understand the magnitude of the
dollars involved here, remember this: by 1970,
Planned Parenthood was already the 19th largest
health-related fundraising organization in
the country. But by year 2000, it had moved
into third place, behind only the American
Heart Association and the American Cancer
Society. And a major factor in that phenomenal
growth was government funding. Basically,
what's happened over the last 40 years or
so, is that Planned Parenthood has taken billions
in government money, while locating the vast
majority of its facilities in minority neighborhoods.
And that has not only been a tremendous boost
for the eugenics movement, but it has also
allowed government-funded family planning
programs to target the black population, while
insulating the government from any direct
connection to black genocide.
One of the places where government money has
been used to advance the eugenics agenda has
been in the public school system. Although
government-funded population control programs
can be found in white schools, the evidence
is that they are significantly more likely
to be targeted at black schools.
One example of this was seen in 1986, when it was discovered that Illinois public schools were not only
distributing birth control to children, but
that every one of the 50 facilities involved
were in minority neighborhoods. When this
information was made public, a local African-American
pastor organized a campaign to stop the program.
Reverend Hirum Crawford labeled the project
genocide, saying that the obvious goal was
to go after the Hispanic and black population.
That same pattern was also found in Maryland
in the 1990's. Even though the state's teen
pregnancy rate was higher among white students
than black students, when the contraceptive
device Norplant was introduced, it was selectively
marketed to children as young as 13, and predominantly
black schools in Baltimore. The result was
that of the first 350 girls implanted at a
local middle school, 345 were African-American.
Then, when Norplant was approved for general
distribution, of the first 100 schools selected,
all 100 were in minority neighborhoods.
The Norplant contraception device was developed
by the Population Council in New York, which
had been established in 1952 under the leadership
of its president, John Rockefeller. Its next
two presidents, Frederick Osborn and Frank
Notestein, were both former members of the
American Eugenics Society. And Notestein would
later serve on the National Advisory Council
of Planned Parenthood.
"There is an element of racism in the motivation
of some Americans who are promoting birth control. It's interesting to note that family planning abroad
is being strongly advocated by some senators better known for their anti-civil rights position."
United States Congressman Clement Zablocki, March 25th, 1966.
Four years after Guttmacher made that statement,
America's National Security Council issued
a report that was intended to define the United
States government's official policy on controlling
world population. It was called The National
Security Study Memorandum 200, or NSSM 200,
and it was formulated in cooperation with
the United States Agency for International
Development, the U.S. State Department, the
Department of Defense, and the Central Intelligence
Agency. One of its goals was to establish
a strategy for reducing the populations of
third-world countries, so that the United
States could have increased access to their
natural resources, particularly minerals and metals.
Among the conclusions of NSSM 200
was that no country has reduced its population
growth without resorting to abortion. The
authors of the report then identified three
non-governmental agencies that would be funded
to carry out the government's population control
agenda in the targeted countries. One of those
agencies was Planned Parenthood.
[Clowes] One of the tactics specified in NSSM
200 was that we might withhold food aid after
a disaster if the countries do not accept
the American idea of birth control, and this
has happened many times all over the world.
One example is the Southern American country
of Guyana, which was hit by a hurricane back
in 1997. Now they had turned down abortion
and birth control for 12 years straight, but
after the hurricane hit Guyana in 1997, the
World Bank said we will not give you any aid
unless you legalize abortion and birth control,
and that's exactly what they did. I've seen
this several times in Africa, where Joseph
hit and the United Nations and USAID will
not assist unless they accept birth control.
I've been all through Africa myself and I've
seen medical clinics that are full of birth
control devices, but no safe motherhood delivery
kits. There's no anesthesia, there's not even
any bandages there, there's crates and crates
of birth control pills and condoms. Now, while
our commitment to birth control is going up
every year, our commitment to authentic economic
development is dropping. So we see less clean
drinking water funding, less school funding,
see less medical clinic funding. Another example
is Haiti. Haiti has been hit by hurricanes
several times and the United States and other
countries are saturated with birth control.
In Haiti now, any woman—90 percent of women
at least, can now get access to any kind of
birth control they want to, government-funded,
but less than 20 percent of the Haitians have
access to clean drinking water. Now try to
imagine there being a natural catastrophe
in a country like Canada, or Australia, or
France, or England, and we go in there and
we say to them we're not going to offer you
any kind of aid unless you accept our philosophy
on birth control and population control. That
will be outrageous. But that's our standard
operating procedure when we go to a black
country after a catastrophe of some kind.
You cannot believe that we are going to treat
people in a foreign country like this and
not treat our own population of African-Americans
the same way. Consider what happened after
Hurricane Katrina. One of the first things
we did was bring in birth control and contraception,
and as we all know, the hurricane disproportionately
affected black families in that area. And
I seriously doubt if the same kind of disaster
hit a middle-class white area, the first response
will be condoms and birth control.
[Lloyd] This idea that population control
could be used to control a specific population
was not unique to NSSM 200. For example, before
the Nazis took power in Germany, abortion
had been illegal, except to save the life
of the mother. But under Hitler, the Hamburg
Eugenics Court ruled that it would still be
illegal for Aryan women, but legal for women
of what they called inferior racial stock.
According to the Court, encouraging eugenic
abortions would promote racial hygiene and
protect the health of the German people. This
new policy eventually led to certain women
being threatened with execution if they refused
to abort what the Nazis called racially worthless babies.
[René] At about the same time this was going
on in Germany, the government of Bermuda was
blanketing the island with population control
facilities, and openly stating that their
intent was to limit the numbers of blacks.
Then, in 1958, blacks in the Caribbean rebelled
against the Planned Parenthood-led birth control
campaign that was exclusively targeted at
non-white residents. While, at the same time,
prosperous white residents were being encouraged
to multiply. Following a similar pattern,
a 1965 article in the Pittsburgh Courier Newspaper
reported that under apartheid, the white South
African government was relying on targeted
birth control as its primary weapon to reduce
the number of blacks in the country.
[Lloyd] Unfortunately, we now know that the
U.S. government was not immune to this sort
of thing either. When three pro-choice researchers
investigated the original motive behind the
creation of the abortion pill, RU 486, what
they discovered was that the scientific basis
for it was actually developed in the United
States during the 1960's by the National Institute
of Health at the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. In their 1991 book, these
researchers claimed to have found data showing
that this agency was looking for an inexpensive
and effective drug to control the populations
of foreign countries that the government had
classified as underdeveloped. The abortion
pill was to be tested in these environments
and, if successful, the plan called for it
to then be introduced into black, Hispanic,
and Native American communities in the United  States.
In 1977, only three years after NSSM 200 was
issued, the Director of the United States
Office of Population, Dr. Reimert T. Ravenholt,
publicly stated that it was the U.S. government's
intention to sterilize one-fourth of the world's
female population. According to Ravenholt,
one of the driving forces behind this campaign
was the need to protect American financial
and commercial interests.
Ravenholt said that some foreign governments were refusing to give the United States permission to come
into their country and control their population.
He said that, in those cases, the plan was
to be carried out by two private organizations
with an enormous amount of financial support
from the American government. When asked by
a St. Louis newspaper to name the two organizations,
he said that they were the United Nations
Fund for Population Activities and Planned Parenthood.
Among government officials who supported the
Ravenholt philosophy of using American intervention
to control the populations of foreign countries,
perhaps the most powerful were Republican
President Gerald Ford, Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller, and Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger. In the mid 1970's, while serving
as Foreign Policy Adviser to the Ford-Rockefeller
administration, Kissinger personally helped
Planned Parenthood set up an abortion counseling
program for Vietnam refugees who were being
housed at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base
in California. This was done despite the fact
that the vast majority of these refugees were
known to be strongly opposed to abortion,
and not one of them had ever requested abortion
counseling. At the same time, Kissinger also
refused to hold an abortion training program
that was being conducted by the Agency for
International Development, which operates
under the direction of the State Department.
Kissinger allowed this project to continue
despite numerous complaints that it was in
clear violation of U.S. law that specifically
prohibited American foreign aid funds from
being used for this purpose. The commitment
that Ford, Rockefeller and Kissinger had for
this illegal project may have been a reaction
to something Reimert Ravenholt had said a
few years earlier. In 1973, he was speaking
at a Planned Parenthood National Conference,
where he told attendees that abortion may
actually be the most demographically powerful
way of controlling population. Ravenholt would
eventually be honored by Planned Parenthood
for what it called innovation and vision in
the population field.
[Crutcher] Years ago, a series of USA Today
articles documented that there are large multinational
corporations on the New York Stock Exchange
today that actually got their start in the
slave trade. When slavery ended and Africans
could no longer be financially exploited,
many of those same corporations began pouring
millions into the eugenics movement. The people
they had found so valuable as property, they
had little use for as fellow citizens. And
again, some of those corporations and foundations,
and institutions are still around today, and
every year, they still pour millions into
eugenics organizations like Planned Parenthood.
In fact, if you look at Planned Parenthood's
donor list, it reads like a who's who of corporate
America. You also have individual elitists
doing the exact same thing. People like Bill
and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner,
and many others have used their own personal
fortunes to make sure that the eugenics movement
never run short of money. Of course, if you
confront these people, or these corporations
about their support for organizations like
Planned Parenthood, they'll tell you it has
nothing to do with eugenics. And if someone
is naive enough to believe that, that's fine.
But to me, it's like someone's saying, “yeah,
I'll give a few million dollars a year to
the Klan, but I'm not really a racist.”
[Lloyd] After the abortion pill RU 486 was
approved for sale in the U.S., the controversy
surrounding it kept the abortion lobby from
being able to find an American company to
produce it. That forced them to look for a
foreign manufacturer. And, after an 8 year
search, a company owned by the Chinese government
agreed to manufacture the drug for the U.S.
market. The company's management made the
decision after the Rockefeller Foundation
agreed to provide financial backing for the
project.
[René] There's also another connection between
Rockefeller and RU 486. At the end of World
War II, the German chemical manufacturer IG
Farben was identified as the company that
supplied the gas used in the Nazi concentration
camps. The gas was called Zyklon B, and evidence
later showed that Farben's executives knew
how it was being used. In fact, evidence was
uncovered to indicate that Farben engineers
had actually designed the gas chambers. This
led to some of them being tried at Nuremberg
for crimes against humanity, including genocide
and slavery. Interestingly, IG Farben was
a financial partner with John D. Rockefeller
and Standard Oil of New Jersey, and a company
called Standard IG Farben. In addition, within
three months after Hitler came to power, the
Publicity Director of Rockefeller Foundation,
and Personal Adviser to John D. Rockefeller,
a man named Ivy Ledbetter Lee, was assigned
the responsibility of directing public relations
for IG Farben.
[Lloyd] After the war, IG Farben would change
its name to become known as Hoeschst A.G.
Today Hoeschst is a gigantic multinational
corporation with subsidiaries all over the
world, including the United States. Ironically,
one of Hoeschst's subsidiaries, Roussel Uclaf,
is the French company that developed RU 486.
In other words, the same company that produced
the gas used in the Nazi death camps also
produced the abortion pill that is now being
used in American abortion clinics. And in
both cases, there was a known connection to
the Rockefeller Foundation.
On the week he was inaugurated, Bill Clinton
received this letter from attorney Ron Weddington.
Weddington is the ex-husband of Sarah Weddington,
the lawyer who successfully argued for the
legalization of abortion in the Roe vs. Wade case.
"Twenty-six million food stamp recipients
is more than the economy can stand. You can
start immediately to eliminate the barely
educated, unhealthy, and poor segment of our
country. No, I'm not advocating some sort
of mass extinction of these unfortunate people.
Crime, drugs, and disease are already doing
that. I am not proposing that you send federal
agents armed with Depo-Provera dart guns to
the ghetto. You should use persuasion rather
than coercion. Our survival depends upon our
developing a population where everyone contributes.
We don't need more cannon fodder. We don't
need more parishioners. We don't need more
cheap labor. We don't need more poor babies."
Two days after being sworn in as president,
Bill Clinton issued an executive order that
allowed federally funded agencies to refer
low-income women for abortions. He also directed
that American dollars could be funneled to organizations that promote abortion in foreign countries.
"The Aid to Families with Dependent
Children program is the worst boondoggle ever
created. When a sullen black woman of 17
or 18 can decide to have a baby and
get welfare and food stamps and become a burden
to us all, it's time to stop."
Dr. Edward Allred, abortionist, 1980.
Edward Allred is the owner of one of the largest
chains of abortion clinics in the United States.
Not long before Allred made this statement,
the Los Angeles Times had reported that his
California facilities were handling referrals
made by Planned Parenthood.
[Lloyd] Even as late as the 1960's, the wealthy
elite who made up the eugenics movement never
tried to hide the fact that their agenda was
driven by financial considerations as much
as it was driven by the desire to create racial
purity. A good example of this was seen in
1967, when eugenicist and Nobel Prize winner
Dr. William Shockley caused a national uproar
when he stated that it was a waste of taxpayer
money to create better schools and welfare
programs for what he called ghetto Negroes.
He claimed to have research showing that people
of African descent are genetically inferior
to whites in intelligence and simply not smart
enough to take advantage of programs designed
to help them. To save taxpayer money, he proposed
that the U.S. government implement forced
birth control to lower the reproduction of
the inferior classes, and then issue certificates
to become pregnant that would be sold on the
New York Stock Exchange. Shockley was a national
committee member of Planned Parenthood, and
a featured speaker at at least one Planned
Parenthood conference.
When Florida abortion clinic owner Joyce Tarnow
appeared on a local talk show, she gave the
following reply when asked what America should
do to help impoverished nations that are facing
starvation or other natural disasters:
-Time is running out for us.
-Why is that?
-In 1968, Dr. Paul Ehrlich wrote the Population Bomb,
and in that book he stated a thesis that what
we should be doing is helping those nations
that have a reasonable chance of being able
to produce their own food supplies. Those
that cannot do that for whatever reason, those
people have to just sink or swim on their
own. And what we do is try to help those societies
become self-sustaining that have a chance
to learn how to fish in order to feed themselves.
-Wait a minute, wait a minute, are you ad—well,
I mean, I just want to make sure this is clear,
are you advocating, or was he advocating basically
writing off—
-Yes.
-...people that have no hope of ever—because
of climate or for whatever problems or feeding
themselves—sort of like survival of the
fittest?
-Right. And the thing is—
-You agree with that?
-Yes I do. The more people you help to survive,
the more people are going to be reproducing
and having children beyond what we can reasonably
hope to have so that we can educate, and house,
and feed these people.
When Joyce Tarnow retired in 2004, she told
a local newspaper that she had tried to get
as many people sterilized as are in my way.
She also restated her views on foreign aid,
saying that the United States should help
those countries that can prosper, but let
the others wither on the vine. Citing Haiti
as an example, Tarnow said that the Haitian
people should be made to stew in their own
juices, because they had destroyed their environment.
[René] In order to really understand the
role money plays in the eugenics movement,
it is important to keep in mind that its original
mission was not to make a profit, but to eliminate
a group of people that the elites saw as a
financial burden because of things like welfare,
crime, taxes and so forth. And when you look
at the wealthy individuals and corporations
that fund the modern eugenics movement, you
see that this has not really changed. You
also see that these people are willing to
pay out big money to those who can carry out
their agenda, and when Planned Parenthood
figured this out, they volunteered for the
job. The result is that money has been poured
into this organization to the point that Planned
Parenthood is now a billion-dollar multinational
corporation that operates the largest chain
of abortion clinics and birth control facilities
in America.
[Lloyd] While much of Planned Parenthood's
financial success has been because of donations
from these wealthy individuals and large corporations,
it has also raked in billions from you and
me. In 2006 alone, despite having made over
60 million dollars in profit, Planned Parenthood
received about 350 million dollars from the
U.S. government. And in 2009, Planned Parenthood
will receive approximately one million dollars
every single day from the American taxpayer.
That's one million dollars every 24
hours that comes directly out of your paycheck
and mine. Now what you may find interesting
is how your money is being spent. To give
you just one example, we're going to show
you part of a website that Planned Parenthood
launched in 2008 called Take Care Down There
dot-com. The clip is titled "I Didn't Spew,"
and I warn you, many of you are going to find
it highly offensive, and you're going to find
it especially inappropriate for children,
despite the fact that is exactly who Planned
Parenthood created it for. As you watch this
piece, remember, you helped pay for it.
-Whoa guy, where's the prophylactic?
-What do you mean?
-Look, oral sex is still sex, okay? If it's
unprotected, you got to reject it!
-What?
-What? I didn't even spew.
-Guys, guys, doesn't matter. Look, if you're
having sex or you're getting some blow-jays
or whatever, you need to use a condom. Because
you could catch a sexually transmitted infection,
even if you don't spew.
[Lloyd] Now does this clip say anything about
how Planned Parenthood sees African-Americans?
You'll have to judge that for yourself. But
there's no doubt that if this same video had
been made by a bunch of white supremacists
or the Ku Klux Klan, or some neo-Nazi group, we would all understand the symbolic message behind it.
In 2007, Live Action Films of California conducted
an undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood
offices in several states. Under the direction
of the organization's president, Lila Rose,
the goal of the project was to determine whether
Planned Parenthood officials would accept
financial donations on the condition that
the money would only be used to eliminate
African-Americans. The following clips are
from the actual recordings of those conversations.
When this material was released to the public,
Planned Parenthood's defense was to claim
that the employees who made these statements
were not reflecting the organization's corporate
position. But in 1986, Planned Parenthood's
national president, Fay Waddleton made the
following statement during an interview on
CNN:
-As a matter of fact, Mr. Dornan—if I may
finish—we have received contributions from
people who want us—who want to support us,
because they want all welfare mothers and
all black women to stop having children.
[René] What Miss Waddleton was conceding
in this CNN interview, and what Live Action
Films found in their undercover investigation
was acknowledged years before by a previous
Planned Parenthood President. During a speech
in Philadelphia, in January 1966, Planned
Parenthood president Alan Guttmacher stated
that some of his colleagues appeared to have
racial motives for their involvement with
the organization. Not surprisingly, one of
Guttmacher's acquaintances later warned him
that, in the future, he should not be making
comments like that in public. The person who
gave that warning obviously understood that
Planned Parenthood's racial agendas and attitudes
are best kept out of the public. And that
has been a philosophy that Planned Parenthood
has embraced for many years.
To this day, Planned Parenthood has never
disavowed either Margaret Sanger or her plans
for targeted population control. In fact,
the organization's highest award is still
named after her, and has often been given
to people associated with the American eugenics
movement, including John D. Rockefeller in
1967. Then, in 2009, the award was given to
Hillary Clinton, who said in her acceptance
speech that she was in awe of Margaret Sanger
and admired her vision. She also announced
that the U.S. government was increasing its
funding for United Nations family planning
programs by 130 percent.
"Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe
was decided, there was concern about population
growth and particularly, growth in populations
that we don't want to have too many of."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court Justice, July 2009.
[Crutcher] When it comes to exposing eugenics
in modern America, that quote by Ruth Bader
Ginsburg is the smoking gun. I mean, here
is the most radical advocate of legalized
abortion that's ever been on the Supreme Court
openly admitting in the New York Times that
the real issue was never women's rights, or
privacy, or reproductive freedom, or being
pro-choice. No. What she is saying is that
the driving force behind making abortion legal
was to exterminate certain groups of people.
In other words, it was the Supreme Court's
way of legitimizing a philosophy that's been
pushed for the last 150 years by these ultra-wealthy
elitists who believe they have the right to
eliminate anyone that they have decided is
inferior. And Planned Parenthood became the
golden child of these people because they're
the ones who figured out how to put this philosophy
into practice. It was Planned Parenthood who
figured out that the way to make eugenics
work is not to kill people, but to convince
the targeted group to commit cultural suicide.
And the way you do that is with birth control
and abortion. And Planned Parenthood has been
successful at this because, unlike other eugenics
organizations, they have always been able
to keep their agenda hidden not only from
the public, but often from their own people.
I mean, there are Planned Parenthood employees
and volunteers all over this country who I'm
convinced have no idea what they're actually
mixed up in. But when Ruth Bader Ginsburg
said what she said in July of 2009, she let
the cat out of the bag. She made it clear
that abortion was legalized in order to eliminate
people that she and other elitists just like
her don't want there to be too many of. And
I think we all know who they're talking about.
The fact is, when you actually sit down and
research this issue, what you come to see
is that if blacks had never been stolen out
of Africa and brought here in chains, there
would never have been a eugenics movement
in the first place. There would never have
been government sterilization boards. No one
would have ever suggested putting birth control
chemicals in the water supply. No one would
have ever called for the legalization of abortion,
and you would have never heard the terms population
control and family planning. I mean, any way
you cut it, if slavery had never existed,
Planned Parenthood would not exist today.
In January of 2010, the state of Pennsylvania
issued a report showing that even though less
than 11 percent of its female population is
black, they account for over 40 percent of
the abortions performed in the state. Then,
on February 14, 2010, Planned Parenthood opened
a new abortion clinic in a section of Portland,
Oregon that has a white population of under
2 percent. That facility is located on Martin
Luther King Boulevard. Meanwhile, in Houston,
Texas, Planned Parenthood is building the
largest freestanding abortion clinic in the
United States. Scheduled to open in April
of 2010, this massive facility is being built
in the middle of four neighborhoods whose
residents are overwhelmingly black and Hispanic.
[King] We need to remember that over 60 years
ago, a man who could today be called the father
of modern day eugenics proposed that population
control clinics be concentrated in minority
neighborhoods. And now today, the vast majority
of Planned Parenthood clinics are located
in our neighborhoods. Are we really so naive
to believe that this is all a coincidence?
We all know that drugs, alcohol, and tobacco
are devastating, especially in the black community.
We know that the big corporations target us
with the ads and the marketing campaigns.
And yet, we don't notice that Planned Parenthood
is doing the very same thing? We need to pay
attention to the fact that in the 1960's,
when we, as African-Americans, began to demand
our civil rights, for the first time in American
history, there began a widespread cry in our
government for legalized abortion. Was that
coincidence, too? Or, could it be that when
we said we would no longer sit on the back
of the bus, a place was being reserved for
us down at the abortion clinic?
[Lloyd] For most people, it may be hard to
conceive that the ethnic cleansing going on
today through legal abortion began with the
fear of freed slaves. But as you have seen,
that is exactly what happened. When colonization
failed, Charles Darwin and Francis Galton
were there to tell the world that people of
African descent were just one small step above
the ape, and white elitists embraced that
philosophy, not because they had studied it
and found it to be true, but because it gave
them the permission they needed to wipe us
out. And that launched a chain of events that
quickly took on a life of its own. Every time
one eugenics strategy failed, another was
invented to take its place. It was a pattern
that would be continued for one generation
to the next, until they finally discovered
the strategy that worked.
[René] You know, when you study the Nazi
Holocaust, you can see these films of Jews
running into ditches to be shot in the head.
You can even see films of them actually walking
into the gas chambers, and it's tempting to
ask yourself why they didn't fight back. I
mean, if you're going to be killed anyway,
what do you have to lose? Perhaps, the answer
is that they simply could not believe it was
really happening. Maybe the normal human mind
is just not wired to accept that your fellow
man is capable of such senseless brutality
on such a scale, even when you see it happening
with your own eyes. As African-Americans,
we need to recognize that we are doing the
same thing. We need to understand that terms
like pro-choice and reproductive rights, and
family planning, are nothing more than marketing
slogans. They're just code words that organizations
like Planned Parenthood used to hide the fact
that we're voluntarily submitting to the will
of those who have been trying to exterminate
us since the day slavery ended.
[Lloyd] At the beginning of this program,
we told you that the Maafa didn't end with
the freeing of the slaves, and that, in fact,
it hasn't ended yet. Now you've seen the rest
of the story. Now you know that legalized
abortion is more than just a crime against
humanity, it is also the continuation of a
150 year-old racial agenda that was founded
in black genocide. And I hope that you have
also come to see that as long as abortion
remains legal, the Maafa cannot end.
Thanks for watching.
-Brothers and sisters, it is time.
Brothers and sisters, it is time for us to go to the
streets on this issue. We need to be in the
streets on this issue. If we look the other
way while our smallest brothers and sisters
are being listed in the womb, we lose the
right to be outraged that we were once lynched
by the Klan. When white supremacist Tom Meso
tells his followers to invest their money
in ghetto abortion clinics, he's not talking
about reproductive rights, he's talking about
reproductive racism! When two guys write a
book—talking about Steve Levitt, John Donohue—when
two guys—Steve Levitt, John Donohue—write
a book in which they claim that the high rate
of abortion keeps the rate of crime down,
be assured they know that a vast majority
of American abortion clinics are in black
neighborhoods. They know they're in the minority
neighborhoods. What we need to understand
that when we let Planned Parenthood into our
schools, when Planned Parenthood put their
death camps—when we let them put their death
camps in black communities, in our communities,
and when we sit back and let an elected government
official take money out of our paycheck to
pay Planned Parenthood, we have been played
like fools. The fact is, we tolerate something
as evil as abortion, we cannot be surprised
if it turns around and is used against us.
We can't be surprised if it's turned around
and used against us, we can't be angry if
it's turned around and used against us. Know
this for sure, as long as abortion is legal
in America, we'll never be able to stop it
from being used to commit black genocide.
We'll never be able to use it as a weapon
with what I call the Maafa. The fact is, that
we tolerate something as evil as abortion,
we cannot be surprised or angry when it's
turned against us—said that one, didn't
I? You know as easily—you know it was easy
to spot the enemy when he was a redneck, toothless
redneck, probably spent about 3 years trying
to get past the fourth grade. But today our
enemy don't wear white hoods. Today, our enemy
is wearing a white lab coat, with a stethoscope
around his neck. And what gets real aggravating
some time, like a pimp, sometimes he's black!
And this is not about political parties either,
because there's a reason I'm an independent.
Both the Republican Party and Democratic Party
have been in bed with Jezebel, and the eugenics
business for more years than you and I have
been alive. I will also tell you this, every
time we vote for politicians who tell us they're
pro-choice, it's like we're spitting on the
graves of our ancestors. Our ancestors did
not break the chains of slavery, they didn't
escape the plantations in the cotton field
just so we could actually then take power
and give it to political people who are there
to wipe us out!
We need to remember why there
were civil right groups that fought against
abortion in the 60's. We need to understand
what it was that Harold Crawford and Irma
Crawford Craven was talking about long before
abortion became legal in this nation, when
they stood up and they noted there's a real
connection between poverty, abortion, and
genocide. They understood it.
Folks,
you know it's time we looked at what's been done to
our children.
I had the privilege of meeting
Mamie Till in Chicago years ago. She complimented
us on what we were doing and my heart was
really moved sitting next to her and having
this lady look me in the eye and tell me that.
Because you remember Emmett Till, and we have
to remember what happened. When he was beaten
and bludgeoned so bad that, most of the time,
people said "well looks like gonna be a closed
casket," his mother decided "no, no, no!"
She demanded an open casket because she wanted
the world to see what they had done to her
baby! And it's time we now look and not look
away, and look what has been done to our children
in the womb! It's womb lynching!
Now the point is not that killing a black child is worse than killing a white child. It's not. Regardless of the
victim's skin color, eye color, or hair color,
legalized abortion is a crime against all
humanity. Everyone of us. But it's also—it's
like a loaded gun aimed right between our
eyes, and every time we walk into a voting
booth and we help elected politician who says
he pro-choice, by pulling that lever—every
time we pull that lever for pro-choice, we
pull the trigger on that loaded gun. And a
child dies.
That's true regardless of what
party they're in. That's true regardless of
what office they're running for. You and I
know there's a lot of pro-choice out—politicians,
they will concede they'll say "oh well, yes
we know that abortion is this, to take a human
life." They'll admit that. Then they turn
around—right around and say "but it should
be legal." And I have to wonder why—
no, in fact, I don't really have to remember why,
I just want to know how many of these politicians,
who know that abortion is mass murder, tolerate
it because they think the right people are
being murdered?
Now, I don't know the answer
to that question. But I—and—but I do know
this, I know that if the Klan with or without
their hoods, were to open up a whole chain
of abortion clinics and they were to concentrate
them in the black communities, we will be
smart enough to know what's going down. But
I'm telling you all something brothers and sisters,
we should be smart enough to know what's going
down now, when Planned Parenthood and these
other abortion businesses do the same thing.
The time has come, first to wake up, the time
has come for us to realize that we—a people
are no longer being illegally lynched one
or two at a time at the end of a dirt road.
It's time for us to realize that our people
are being womb-lynched. It is time to realize
they're being legally ripped to shreds by
millions in air-conditioned rooms where sweet,
soft elevator music playing in the background.
It is time for us to realize that we are in
a war—we are in a war and if we don't become
involved, and we try to look the other way,
it's gonna wipe us out. It's called black
genocide. It's time that we realize we have
found the weapon of mass destruction, and
the weapon of mass destruction is the suction
machine in Planned Parenthood.
Knowing what we know now, we can no longer look the other way. To end this Maafa in the 21st century,
we as a people have to do something. To do
nothing is not an option.
The only question left to answer is:
what are we going to do about it?
