(August 14, 2016 at 8:02 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: *emphasis mine*
Oh so you agree with the article insinuating that she can't be racist because she hired black people? Do you feel the same about Fox news too?
White folks have always been able to find a "Sambo" with enough self hatred willing to coon and shuck & jive for massa.
For the people that don't know what a Sambo is, here is an example of one.
So, I have to ask: are you an idiot? Or are you deliberately lying by omission, skipping through everything else in the article and then taking one quote in the least charitable light possible? A light that, by the way, the article itself does not share?
Is it moron, or asshole, Huggy? Because here, let me spell it the fuck out for you:
Quote:"Sanger’s correspondence shows this sentence advocates for black doctors and ministers to play leadership roles in the Negro Project to avoid misunderstandings. Lynchings and Jim Crow laws gave blacks good reason to be wary of attempts to limit the number of children they bore. In Harlem, she hired a black doctor and social worker to quell those fears," the article says.
I love, I absolutely love, that you seemed to think that if you just didn't bold the one sentence that proves you wrong, that sentence would cease to exist or something. Contextually, what this is saying, if you don't dishonestly ignore the middle sentence, is that Sanger hired black doctors in order to put a friendly face on an organization that, in a world of Jim Crow laws and segregation, the black community would be predisposed to distrust and may get the misrepresentative idea that they were out to eliminate the black race. She was specifically out to avoid a racist appellation from those with good reason to distrust white-led organizations in this field, not making a fucking mission statement out of it.
You would think that a person so apparently versed in black history to reference Sambos might know a little about the culture of distrust at the time... but then, I guess that would also mean expecting you to tell the truth, and not just stick mindlessly to your original position.
At best though, now you're fucked, because Politifact doesn't agree with you that Sanger was just out to hire "Sambos," so are they a good source or not? If you're saying they're a good source, then you need to bend to the fact that they don't agree with you, and if they're not a good source, why the fuck are you using them at all?
Oh, and by the way, did you just skip over the earlier parts of the article, about how even people critical of Sanger don't hold that she was a racist? The bit that said that she was ahead of her time and progressive when it came to segregation, and that she crusaded for birth control as a human right for all people, not just black people? Or how about the part where Planned Parenthood gave the Margaret Sanger award to MLK Jr in 1966, when she was still alive, and that he accepted that award, writing in his acceptance speech of the "striking kinship" between Sanger's efforts and his own movement? Or how about the other prominent black organizations that chose to work with her?
Amazing, how you can miss out on ninety percent of the article in your rush to be right, instead of factually correct, you monumental liar.
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