Respectfully Mike, youre right about most things but your wrong about this.

Colored people are like human weeds and have to be exterminated.

Find a source for that quote and Ill eat crow. It may reflect her sentiments but I challenge anyone to source it. It was made up by zealots.

Many, if not all, of the quotes are out of context and do not acknowledge the complexities of the progressive era. If you wanted to get something done back them you embraced eugenics. It was mainstream and it got you the favor or the medical and academic communities. It decoupled morality from birth control.

We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population is also out of context.

This is the full quote: The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

The context is she thought blacks might mistakenly associate her birth control project with racist sterilization campaigns in the Jim Crow south. Her idea was for Black clergy to spread the word that the birth control had noble intentions.

Im not saying she was a wonderful women but show me a serious scholar or historian that says she had the goal of black genocide. Note the half-truths never come from mainstream religious leaders. For example, you will never see the Catholic church or Mormons use these quotes because they fact check. The stuff comes from the evangelical fringe. Unfortunately it gets picked up by mainstream people.

Last edited by RyanF; 06/16/15 08:37 PM.