@SemenDemon:
Birth Control does not mean contraception indiscriminately practised. It means the release and cultivation of the better elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks–those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.
To be fair, that's still really bad, even without the concocted racism. It's the sort of statement I'd expect to hear from some Randroid speedfreak.
I would normally say one could be on the fence when you try to take the quote from a neutral stand but if you read some of there other works you do find that she seems to be rather elitist. She has used the word weeds many times and it is most accurately put to say she uses it to refer to groups that seem more of a burden to society than not in their current state. She has made racist comments though not towards blacks. I'm certain when she uses weeds she is referring blacks, Asians, Indians, orphans, poor and "dumb" white people, immigrants of the 1920's before the depression. Reading her work would more likely put those race groups on the list only because of their common poor status in the US and less so for their race. Later in her life during and before the civil rights she was ahead of her time in her and approach to other races that seems to be a 180 when looking at some of her early works. She rejected race based inherited traits that likely in her early years she seemed to except. She was still young and knew only what other people "knew". She went out of her way to help minorities and ensured that her staff were of the same mind in her later years. Someone who grew up in the beginnings of the 1900 would have racist beliefs most likely and she seemed to have thrown them off, aside from her anti-mass immigration stance. She was anti-immigrant because the load of immigrants coming in had nothing to offer, were poor, were orphans, and had only dreams and no awareness or real expectations. It was just america, the land of opportunities to them. We did brand it that way though….
If we cannot except tate people can overcome an evil heritage and rise for the better then Trumps history in the 80-90's should be throwing up warning flags. Sanger did more to lose the poison of the early 1900's and did more for minorities whereas Trump begrudgingly acquiesces to denounces the kkk in his not-so-fiery way. There are newspaper articles from 1927 with Trumps father being arrested at a clan rally. The papers give their address and and his name. Couple this with his actions with mobster Libuti, the Central Park 5, testimonies from african-americans that worked for him in the 80's that weren't allowed in the front when he was there, his rhetoric during rallies, and etc. then we should hold him in a harsher light. It's 2016, not 1927.
