Margaret Sanger and the Unknown Haikuist

Two of our favorite entries in the Margaret Sanger Art contest  were submitted in the 2007 contest from an unknown Haikuist.   Here they are below:


Margaret Sanger:
She spoke to the KKK.
Abortion hero.


Margaret Sanger:
fan of the Klan
but not of children in the womb.


The entries were very well received and elicited a great deal of support from our readers and from the Haiku community -- ultimately both were awarded honorable mention,  The unknown Hakuist was apparently a reader of  Kevin Miller over at the Heart mind and Strength Blog and responded to his plug of the Art Contest.  Miller's delightful blog appears to now be defunct.  But you can still follow him on twitter at @ProfKevin .

Flashback: The Catholic Caveman's Margaret Sanger Poem

From Vir Speluncae Catholicus:

There once was this gal name o' Maggie

Was listed on the Ku Klux Klan tally

Her thoughts on the need

To eradicate "weeds"

Was echoed at the Nuremberg Rally 


2007 was a banner year for the Margaret Sanger Art Contest, and we knew we had made it when an entry from one of our alltime favorite blogs,  the Catholic Caveman, jumped into the competition.  The above entry was awarded Honorable Mention.  The Catholic Cave appears to have shut down in January of 2012, but the author's wonderful insights can now be found at the Wilmington Examiner  .  Maybe he will be the one to write the much-needed "Margaret Sanger and the KKK"  screenplay.


We always loved the tag line at THE LAIR OF THE CATHOLIC CAVEMEN:  


The Car Crash of Blogs. You Don't Want To, But You Just Can't Help But Look

Ms. Margaret and the Klan

Ms. Margaret and the Klan

By Carrie Tomko
There once was a woman named Margaret,
Who made Negro babies her target.
She longed to see less of them,
Courted the death of them,
Sanger, this woman named Margaret. 

The wives of the Klansmen who meet
Disguised in voluminous sheet,
Gave her their attention
At secret convention
To learn of her childless technique.

Ms. Sanger was poorly impressed.
Elementary they are she confessed.
So childlike she found them,
Dumbed her talk down for them,
Sanger their arrogant guest. 

The organization she ran
Has snuffed out more blacks than the Klan,
Yet people aren't frighted,
But rather delighted,
Embracing the Parenthood Planned.


This poem was the winner of the 3rd annual Margaret Sanger art contest back in 2007.  The late Carrie Tomko was a popular Catholic blogger.

"OK, Set Fire to the Crosses, It's Time for the Birth Control Lecture: - Margaret Sanger & the KKK

When Planned Parenthood founder and racist Margaret Sanger spoke to the Ku Klux Klan in 1926, she most certainly spewed the same type of vile, racist Margaret Sanger quotes she always did.

As highly respected African-American journalist, Lucky Rosenbloom, puts it:

What do you suppose Margaret Sanger was talking about that made her so appealing to the KKK? I believe she was talking about killing 14 million Black babies. I suppose she was telling them of a way to kill four thousand “Ns” in four weeks using eugenics and abortions outdoing the number of “Ns” they lynched in 86 years…

Wikipedia, without any authoritative citation, would like us to believe otherwise.  Ask yourself, do you really need burning crosses and banners (which were present that night) for a "birth control lecture?" Should we believe Wikipedia or Sanger's own autobiography? The Margaret Sanger Wikipedia entry states, in pertinent part, the following:

In 1926, Sanger gave a lecture on birth control to the women's auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klanin Silver Lake, New Jersey.^[37] ... Sanger's talk was well received by the group, and as a result, "a dozen invitations to similar groups were proffered."^[37]

The first noteworthy thing in the entry is that nowhere in the Margaret Sanger autobiography does Sanger state that she spoke to the KKK about "birth control."  The "birth control" line has just been thrown in to her Wikipedia entry by Planned Parenthood types to try and soften the blow for those reading for the first time about Margaret Sanger and the Ku Klux Klan.  

Imagine the surprise the typical Feminist Studies major experiences when she first stumbles across the uncomfortable fact that her hero was invited to speak to various hate groups 13 different times.  Woops, Professor Feminazi never mentioned that one in class.  Let's just label these invites "birth control lectures," right?

Here is Sanger's account of her trip to talk to the Ku Klux Klan from pages 366-367 of Margaret Sanger An Autobiograph.  You will see no mention of a birth control lecture but you will note that there were burning crosses:




 Always to me any aroused group was a good group, and therefore I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan at Silver Lake, New Jersey, one of the weirdest experiences I had in lecturing.

    *** 


After three hours I was summoned at last and entered a bright corridor filled with wraps. As someone came out of the hall I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses. I waited another twenty minutes. It was warmer and I did not mind so much. Eventually the lights were switched on, the audience seated itself, and I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak


.    ***


In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. The conversation went on and on, and when we were finally through it was too late to return to New York.


  ____________________________________________________________




 Several questions quickly come to mind from this brief account.

1)  If it was a "birth control lecture" as claimed by the Planned Parenthood flunkies editing her Wikipedia page, why were the burning crosses and banners necessary?  Sounds more like a typical hate filled KKK rally.


 2) We note that following the cross burning KKK rally, Sanger received "a dozen invitations to speak to similar groups."  What did Margaret Sanger say to this hate group that lead to so many subsequent invites?


 3) Why have historians by and large simply ignored this event?


 4)  Would it not be fascinating to see a re-enactment of this event?


5) As we have noted before, if Margaret Sanger was a conservative pro-lifer, her name would never appear in print without the label "frequent Ku Klux Klan Speaker."  Why have pro-lifers so far failed to successfully tie Margaret Sanger to the Ku Klux Klan?  Afterall, as Martin Luther King's own niece has noted: “The most obvious practitioner of racism in the United States today is Planned Parenthood, an organization founded by the eugenicist Margaret Sanger and recently documented as ready to accept money to eliminate black babies” - Dr. Alveda King.




We renew our call for pro-life bloggers, movie makers and artists to find unique and innovative ways to educate the public about the hate-filled past that gave birth to the evil empire that is Planned Parenthood.     

Washington Times Grossu: Margaret Sanger, racist eugenicist extraordinaire

Arina Grossu, the director for the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, 
set the record straight on leftist hero Margaret Sanger with a great article back in May in the Washington  Times. Read this and you gotta think, "Isn't it time for someone to make the movie, Margaret Sanger and the KKK?"  It would be a blockbuster and devestate the Planned Parenthood PR folks.

GROSSU: Margaret Sanger, racist eugenicist extraordinaire

The founder of Planned Parenthood would have considered many Americans unworthy of life

Recent articles have reported on an unearthed video from 1947 of Margaret Sanger demanding “no more babies” for 10 years in developing countries. A couple of years ago, Margaret Sanger was named one of Time magazine’s “20 Most Influential Americans of All Time.” Given her enduring influence, it’s worth considering what the woman who founded Planned Parenthood contributed to the eugenics movement.

Sanger shaped the eugenics movement in America and beyond in the 1930s and 1940s. Her views and those of her peers in the movement contributed to compulsory sterilization laws in 30 U.S. states that resulted in more than 60,000 sterilizations of vulnerable people, including people she considered “feeble-minded,” “idiots” and “morons.”

She even presented at a Ku Klux Klan rally in 1926 in Silver Lake, N.J. She recounted this event in her autobiography: “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan … I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses … I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak … In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered” (Margaret Sanger, “An Autobiography,” Page 366). That she generated enthusiasm among some of America’s leading racists says something about the content and tone of her remarks.

In a letter to Clarence Gable in 1939, Sanger wrote: “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” (Margaret Sanger commenting on the ‘Negro Project’ in a letter to Gamble, Dec. 10, 1939).

Her own words and television appearances leave no room for parsing. For example, she wrote many articles about eugenics in the journal she founded in 1917, the Birth Control Review. Her articles included “Some Moral Aspects of Eugenics” (June 1920), “The Eugenic Conscience” (February 1921), “The Purpose of Eugenics” (December 1924), “Birth Control and Positive Eugenics” (July 1925) and “Birth Control: The True Eugenics” (August 1928), to name a few.

The following are some of her more telling quotes:

“While I personally believe in the sterilization of the feeble-minded, the insane and syphilitic, I have not been able to discover that these measures are more than superficial deterrents when applied to the constantly growing stream of the unfit. They are excellent means of meeting a certain phase of the situation, but I believe in regard to these, as in regard to other eugenic means, that they do not go to the bottom of the matter.” (“Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” Feb. 1919, The Birth Control Review).

“Eugenics without birth control seems to us a house builded upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit” (“Birth Control and Racial Betterment,” Feb. 1919, The Birth Control Review).

“Stop our national habit of human waste.” (“Woman and the New Race,” 1920, Chapter 6).

“By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.” (“Woman and the New Race,” 1920, Chapter 7).

“The main objects of the Population Congress would be to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring[;] to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.” (“A Plan for Peace,” 1932).

Read the Rest Here:   

GROSSU: Margaret Sanger, racist eugenicist extraordinaire

"Is there a secret KKK-Planned Parenthood alliance to extinguish the black race in America?" asks R. Dozier Gray

Its always amazing how the media can just choose to ignore certain voices in the African-American community while elevating others.  Why for instance are we always hearing from Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, while a super-intelligent courageous leader like  R. Dozier Gray is completely ignored.  R. Dozier Gray is a member of the national advisory council for the Project 21 black leadership network and is combat veteran with both an expertise in counterterrorism and significant experience in the civilian defense industry.

We ask this, because we recently stumbled upon a very powerful article by Gray entitled Black Genocide and Black Acquiescence in which Gray asks quite pointedly "Is there a secret KKK-Planned Parenthood alliance to extinguish the black race in America?"  

Why aren't more black people against abortion?

To sell a virtually unabated abortion agenda, people are told abortion is necessary for instances in which the life of the mother is at risk.  The need to terminate a child conceived by rape or incest is also cited.

Such reasons may seem logical, but they account for only a small portion of actual abortions.

According to a 1987 study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the great majority of abortions - 93 percent - are for social rather than health reasons.  These women don't want their babies because it might interfere with work or school, are too expensive or because of a bad relationship or no relationship with the father.

For blacks, the illogic of abortion proponents should just be the beginning of concern.

A 2008 Guttmacher report states black women are responsible for 37 percent of abortions - well above our percentage of the population in general!

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 472 black babies are aborted for every 1,000 live births in 2004 - roughly one black baby killed for every two born!

Why are blacks so overrepresented in abortion statistics?

People are making abortions more available to blacks.

According to Care Net, 94 percent of abortion clinics can be found in urban areas.  Clinic operators would never say blacks are being targeted, but the history of population control and abortion in America should concern even the most skeptical of black folk.

There are conspiracy theories about AIDS and crack cocaine being intentionally inflicted on blacks.  What about abortion?  Is there a secret KKK-Planned Parenthood alliance to extinguish the black race in America?

It's unlikely the Grand Imperial Wizard has clandestine meetings with the president of the nation's largest abortion provider, but Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger did once address the women's auxiliary of the KKK.

Read the rest here

: Black Genocide and Black Acquiescence at the The National Center for Public Policy Research

For more on the Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, Ku Klux Klan conspiracy check out

The Silver Lake Conspiracy

 

Legacy of Margaret Sanger as Big a Threat as al Qaeda

A brilliant look at the legacy of Margaret Sanger by blogger Jonathan Henderson  at his always entertaining blog: Conservatively-Speaking: Objectivist Blog Opposing Socialism and Anarcho-Capitalism.

Be sure to check it out at:

The Legacy of Margaret Sanger, the Whore of Babylon: A Threat as Great as Global Genocide at the Hands of Islam

If You Only Read One Open Letter This Decade...

The Matt Walsh Blog has a simply classic open letter to the needless and redundant, tax funded, American Pravda TV station called PBS.  If you only read one open letter this century, you will want it to be this one: Dear PBS, I don’t think there’s a compassionate way to murder infants .   

When you are done reading, re-tweet, favorite, and pass it on however else it can be done these days.  And be sure add The Matt Walsh blog to your sidebar and favorites.

Dear PBS,

This is quite the bold move. As a third rate, tax subsidized broadcasting outfit with a viewership in the single digits, I’d expect you’d try your best to fly under the radar. There is, after all, no conceivable reason for you to exist, nor is there a solid justification for spending tax money to keep afloat an irrelevant television channel that has long since drowned amid a sea of a million other channels.

Sure, you “only” bring in about 40 million dollars a year in tax money, but why draw attention to the scam? It might be a good 460 million dollars less than the amount that Obama gave to Planned Parenthood last year, but it’s still a sizable sum. It’s still 40 million dollars earmarked for a TV channel which provides absolutely nothing that can’t be found on dozens of other TV channels.

Yet here we are, and you’ve decided to air a 90 minute pro-late term abortion propaganda piece. Of all of the documentaries at your disposal, you chose to give airtime on your tax funded airwaves to a film that glorifies the butchery of viable, fully formed human beings.

Read the rest here:  Dear PBS, I don’t think there’s a compassionate way to murder infants

African American Journalist Knows What Margaret Sanger Said at Ku Klux Klan Rally

Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger admits in her autobiography that she was frequently invited to speak at Ku Klux Klan rallies and she even gives a detailed account of the burning crosses and surreal scene at one such speech, and goes on to mention how well received her speech was by the KKK:

Margaret Sanger wrote about her Ku Klux Klan speech in her autobiography, “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan…I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses…I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak…In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.” (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)

We have never been able to uncover what specifically Sanger said at these KKK rallies but her history of racist and bigoted statements has led to much speculation.  See for example:
   

Six Quotes Hint Why Margaret Sanger Received “a dozen invitations” to speak at Ku Klux Klan Rallies

Now, however, a highly respected journalist, Lucky Rosenbloom, thinks he knows exactly what made Margaret Sanger a superstar "must have" speaker on the Ku Klux Klan rally circuit:

 

 “What do you suppose Margaret Sanger was talking about that made her so appealing to the KKK? I believe she was talking about killing 14 million Black babies. I suppose she was telling them of a way to kill four thousand “Ns” in four weeks using eugenics and abortions outdoing the number of “Ns” they lynched in 86 years…Planned KillerHood was targeted by Civil Rights Movement activists in the 1960s and ‘70s for its involvement in a ”Black genocide.” Since 1973, legalized abortion has been specifically aimed at the African American population and has killed more Black people than cancer, diabetes, heart disease and gang violence combined…This is a sad day for Black America. We are killing ourselves using the most racist, legalized tools today: abortions.” ~ Black Journalist Lucky Rosenbloom

Six Quotes Hint Why Margaret Sanger Received “a dozen invitations” to speak at Ku Klux Klan Rallies

Most of us, myself included, will live our entire lives and never be invited to speak at a single Ku Klux Klan Rally.  And yet, Margaret Sanger, the foundress of Planned Parenthood, received at least 13 such invitations.  Would someone from Planned Parenthood please tell us why Margaret Sanger was so in demand on the KKK speaking circuit?

Six Quotes Hint Why Marget Sanger Received “a dozen invitations” to speak at Ku Klux Klan Rallies 

Margaret Sanger wrote about her Ku Klux Klan speech in her autobiography, “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan…I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses…I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak…In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.” (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)

Most of us, myself included, will live our entire lives and never be invited to speak at a single Ku Klux Klan Rally.  And yet, Margaret Sanger, the foundress of Planned Parenthood, received at least 13 such invitations.  Would someone from Planned Parenthood please tell us why Margaret Sanger was so in demand on the KKK speaking circuit?

What did Margaret Sanger say in her talk at the KKK Rally in Silver Lake New Jersey that led to twelve more invitations? Well, take a look at some of her past quotes:


1) “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.”

Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.

2) “Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.”

Margaret Sanger, April 1933 Birth Control Review. 

3) “Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying … demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism … [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant … 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. The Pivot of Civilization, 1922. Chapter on “The Cruelty of Charity,” pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Library edition. 

4) “The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

 Margaret Sanger (editor). The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922. 

5) “Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”

 Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. Page 12.

6) “Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.Margaret Sanger. “
The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda.” Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5.

The Culture of Life Review Praises New Site - Rightly Wired

The Culture of Life Review had high praise for a new conservative commentary site called Rightly Wired:

Rightly Wired an Inspired New Site

We stumbled across a terrific new site today, Rightly Wired, and spent over an hour clicking some of the clever and inspired commentary at this site. Rightly Wired bills itself as Conservative Commentary for the Millennial Generation.  The writing is bright, incisive and importantly humorous when it needs to be. 

Read the rest at the Culture of Life Review.  

2013 a Great Year for Pro-life Blogging & Right to Life Websites - ProLifeBlogs.com Tops

There are some great prolife websites and we visit many of them daily and link to a lot of the top ones.  Of course, Life News, Foundation Life Pro-life News, ProLife Unity News andLifeSiteNews are must reads every day;  our tremendous national organizations all have very helpful websites, Priests for Life, Human Life International, American Life League, National Right to Life,Sisters of Life, the tremendously effective Life Dynamics, Operation Rescue, our personal favoriteForty Days for Life, and of course Lila Rose and her wonderful organization Live Action. 

There are also the websites that we here at the Margaret Sanger Blog rely on very heavily : Klanned Parenthood, TooManyAborted, Black Genocide,  and Abort73.  Students for Life is an invaluable site.  We love Life Decisions International and its effort to defund the bloodthirsty haters at
 Planned Parenthood - same with STOPP Planned Parenthood. The quite useful, yet underrated site at ProLifeAmerica, is a favorite.  The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform is a definite life-saver.

A few more must visits are Maafa 21, 180 Movie, and The Culture of Life Review.   Unique and innovative efforts are also our favorites, so we are big fans of Save the Storks.  You will also want to keep an eye on Grace Daigler, a forward thinking Franciscan University student, and her new effortEquipped to Engage.  Online for Life is another brilliant new effort.  Heartbeat International is also doing some good work.  On the local level, there are great organizations across the country, way too many to mention, but a special shout out this year goes to the gutsy folks at Cleveland Right to Life.  

Countless men and women are clearly doing heroic work and we are surely missing a bunch of sites worthy of mention.  And that is why we can not even begin to list all the great bloggers who each and every day make the case for life and bring to light profound and meaningful pro-life stories.  With so many valuable and informative blogs having one central prolife blog that pulls them all-together is extremely useful - that blog is Pro-Life Blogs.  For this reason and for giving a united voice to all the wonderful pro-life bloggers, we name ProLifeBlogs the top website of 2013.

ProLifeBlogs.com is an independent news site created to capitalize on weblog technology as an uncompromising defender of the sanctity of human life. 

ProLifeBlogs.com disseminates unique news and commentary on life oriented issues and events that are ignored or under reported by traditional news sources. A diverse team of editors and contributors, each with news, reporting, commentary, or editorial experience, work to provide compelling content that will inform our readers, lead to a greater understanding, promote constructive dialog and facilitate change within our culture and society. 

ProLifeBlogs.com provides a network, database and news aggregator for independent and autonomous pro-life bloggers to interact and promote their life-oriented articles. Writers through-out the world from a diversity of backgrounds join ProLifeBlogs.com and, on an hourly basis, provide refreshing, dynamic, and insightful articles.

Way to go ProLifeBlogs.

We here at the Margaret Sanger Blog would like to thank all the great pro-lifers for their selfless work throughout 2013.