https://www.liveaction.org/news/eliz...ood-instagram/
Well-known white celebrities, politicians, and influencers joined together to hand over their social media accounts to Black women in an effort to bring their message of inclusion and justice to a wider audience. Some of the people who participated in the #ShareTheMic project were Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi and InStyle editor-at-large Kahlana Barfield Brown, who took over accounts from model Ashley Graham and actress Julia Roberts, respectively.
Former presidential candidate, Senator Elizabeth Warren, also participated, but her choice was more controversial: Planned Parenthood’s acting president, Alexis McGill Johnson. Considering the extensive eugenicist and racist history of Planned Parenthood and its continued contribution to the decimation of Black children in the womb, it’s an odd choice, even if the current acting president is a Black woman.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was an open eugenicist who argued that certain people — whom she dubbed “undesirables” — should not be allowed to breed. These people were largely disabled, poor, or minorities. The documentary Maafa 21 showed how Sanger and others in the eugenics movement even encouraged the dispersal of birth control agents in the drinking water of minority neighborhoods so women could not get pregnant. Sanger also accepted an invitation to speak to the the Ku Klux Klan, and launched what she called the “Negro Project,” a plan to push the idea of birth control in the Black community. She said:
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal.
We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Former presidential candidate, Senator Elizabeth Warren, also participated, but her choice was more controversial: Planned Parenthood’s acting president, Alexis McGill Johnson. Considering the extensive eugenicist and racist history of Planned Parenthood and its continued contribution to the decimation of Black children in the womb, it’s an odd choice, even if the current acting president is a Black woman.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was an open eugenicist who argued that certain people — whom she dubbed “undesirables” — should not be allowed to breed. These people were largely disabled, poor, or minorities. The documentary Maafa 21 showed how Sanger and others in the eugenics movement even encouraged the dispersal of birth control agents in the drinking water of minority neighborhoods so women could not get pregnant. Sanger also accepted an invitation to speak to the the Ku Klux Klan, and launched what she called the “Negro Project,” a plan to push the idea of birth control in the Black community. She said:
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal.
We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Comment