Margaret Sanger, Snopes, Planned Parenthood and the Ku Klux Klan

Margaret Sanger, Snopes, Planned Parenthood and the Ku Klux Klan

We really don't need to consult Snopes, the internet Urban Legend Reference Page, to answer the question, "Was Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger really a keynote speaker at a Ku Klux Klan Rally?"

This is an easy one.

Just turn to page 366 of the Margaret Sanger's own autobiography, Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography and read the following excerpt:

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)

And wait, did she just say:

A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.  (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)

Yep!  What did she say to these crazed Klan bigots that caused her to get 12 more invitations?  What kind of hate monger gets invited to 13 Ku Klux Klan rallies?   This blog seeks to answer those quations.

Where Would We Be Without Planned Parenthood?

This Planned Parenthood cartoon Indy Star Gary Varvel says it all:

Google Autocomplete for Margaret Sanger Blocks "Racist" or "KKK" - but Top Suggestions for Bing, AOL & DuckDuckGo

Google Autocomplete Won't Suggest "Racist" or "KKK" for Margaret Sanger Search - but Yahoo, Bing, Aol & DuckDuckGo do

The power of suggestion.

When you type "Margaret Sanger" into any search engine (besides Google) the Autocomplete suggestions for Yahoo, Bing, Aol and DuckDuckGo include terms like "racist," "Negro Project," "eugenics," "KKK," and "colored people," among others.

The Google Autocomplete, however, will suggest none of those terms to finish a Margaret Sanger search.  Instead, the Google search engine suggests "apush," "speech," "award," and "books."

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Of the mere four words suggested by Google, only the term "award" is suggested by any of the other search engines.  We just find this strange.  What is the purpose of Autocomplete?  To help users find what they are most likely thinking?  Or is it to tell users what Google wants them to think? 

In her autobiography, Margaret Sanger states:

"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)

It is no surprise that researches, students, and the public at large are curious about Sanger's past.  Why was the founder of Planned Parenthood speaking to the KKK?  What did Margaret Sanger say in her speech to the KKK?  What racist quotes did Margaret Sanger use at the Klan rally?  

After the Klan rally, she states "a dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered."  Why was the KKK so enthusiastic about Sanger?  And as is well documented in our sidebar, Margaret Sanger is well know for a series of racist quotes.  Were some of the Margaret Sanger quotes used at Klan rallies?

(See 10-Eye-Opening Quotes From Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger from LifeNews.com.)

As demonstrated by the suggestions from the Autocomplete in all the other search engines, internet users are very curious about the racist past of the Planned Parenthood founder.

So why the strange suggestions from Google?

New Voices: Who Was Margaret Sanger?

ForAmerica.com: This Letter From A Group Of Black Pastors Sums Up Why We Should Stop Honoring Margaret Sanger

ForAmerica.com has become one of the strongest social media voices for the unborn.  Lately it has been on top of both the Planned Parenthood Selling Baby Parts Story as well as the controversy of former KKK speaker Margaret Sanger being honored at the Smithsonian Institute.  Follow ForAmerica on Twitter and be sure to keep an on its website.

This Letter From A Group Of Black Pastors Sums Up Why We Should Stop Honoring Margaret Sanger

A collective of black pastors has written a letter to the National Portrait Gallery asking that the bust of Margaret Sanger, honoring the founder of Planned Parenthood, be removed due to her crimes against humanity in general and black children in particular.

Here’s an excerpt from the letter (emphasis added):

Perhaps the Gallery is unaware that Ms. Sanger supported black eugenics, a racist attitude toward black and other minority babies; an elitist attitude toward those she regarded as “the feeble minded;” speaking at rallies of Ku Klux Klan women; and communications with Hitler sympathizers. Also, the notorious “Negro Project” which sought to limit, if not eliminate, black births, was her brainchild. Despite these well-documented facts of history, her bust sits proudly in your gallery as a hero of justice. The obvious incongruity is staggering!

Perhaps your institution is a victim of propaganda advanced by those who support abortion. Nevertheless, a prestigious institution like the National Portrait Gallery should have higher standards and subject its honorees to higher scrutiny.

Until now the national spotlight has not fallen on Sanger’s background. However, the recent revelations about aborted babies’ organs and body parts being sold, have not only brought Planned Parenthood under intense scrutiny, but also raised questions about its founder, Margaret Sanger. If the revelations were not consistent with her character and ideas, one might argue that Planned Parenthood has “gone rogue” and abandoned Sanger. The fact is that the behavior of these abortionists, their callous and cavalier attitude toward these babies, is completely in keeping with Sanger’s perverse vision for America.

Noted author answers: "Why would the KKK invite Margaret Sanger?" Calls for removal from Smithsonian

Great article by Paul Bremmer at WND.  He interviews noted author Paul Kengor who nails the liberal establishment on their ability to ignore Margaret Sanger's self-confessed mutual admiration society with the KKK.  Bremmer also reports on the growing movement among black clergymen and scholars in general to throw the Planned Parenthood foundress out of the Smithsonian Institute.  




"This fact was not lost on a group of 10 black clergymen who now have sent a letter to the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery requesting that a bust of Sanger be removed from the museum’s “Struggle for Justice” exhibit."




By Paul Bremmer

It may be uncomfortable for fans of Planned Parenthood, but it’s true – Margaret Sanger, the legendary birth control activist, was a racial eugenicist who once spoke before the Ku Klux Klan.

The evidence is right there in her own memoir, according to Paul Kengor.

“These are the kind of great lengths to which liberals go to ignore the writings of their own icons,” said Kengor, a professor and author of “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage.” “Pages 366 and 367 of her memoirs, published by a top New York publishing house, she talks about her 1926 speech to the Silver Lake, New Jersey, women’s chapter of the KKK. That’s right – Margaret Sanger spoke to the KKK.”

In an interview with WND, Kengor recounted Sanger’s KKK experience as documented in her memoir.

“She describes the white hoods that come through, the flaming crosses that come through,” Kengor recalled. “Then she gets up and speaks, and she spoke for so long and was such a hit that she didn’t get finished until late at night. She also said a whole bunch of additional offers to speak were proffered by her enthusiastic audience, and she finished so late that she missed the train to go back to New York. She had to spend the night there.

“And people might wonder, why would the KKK invite Margaret Sanger? Because Margaret Sanger was a racial eugenicist. She spoke openly of race improvement.”

This fact was not lost on a group of 10 black clergymen who now have sent a letter to the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery requesting that a bust of Sanger be removed from the museum’s “Struggle for Justice” exhibit.

Read more at http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/08/planned-parenthood-founder-busted/#ZWPcVLQ8StK7UPrW.99

Visit http://www.klannedparenthood.com/ as well

NOW President Tries to Defend Planned Parenthood Founder: Margaret Sanger Didn't Just Hate Blacks

It is impossible to defend the ugly racist who founded Planned Parenthood.  When Margaret Sanger spoke at her first Ku Klux Klan rally, the crowd went gaga and invited her to more hate rallies.  "A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered." (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)

So you can't blame the hapless President of NOW for this feeble defense of the KKK's favorite keynote speaker:

Laurie Bertram Roberts, Mississippi State Pres. of the National Organization of Women, comments on Margaret Sanger’s racism:

“First of all, Margaret Sanger did not work on abortion. She worked on birth control. Context is everything. I will never deny that Margaret Sanger was connected to the eugenics movement, what they (abortion opponents) never bothered to say is that eugenicists also wanted to limit the birth rate of poor white people and disabled people. It wasn’t just Black people; it was a whole lot of people they deem to be unfit.”

Quoted in “Thank God for Stupid Enemies” Speaker for the Dead WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2014

From Anna Wolf “Using the KKK to Fight Abortion Rights” Jackson Free Press April 16, 2014

Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood. She was also an avowed racist (she spoke at at least one KKK meeting) who did indeed advocate sterilizations of the handicapped and poor.  

Great discussion going on at Free Republic:  NOW pres: It’s ok, Margaret Sanger didn’t just hate Blacks

The great Glenn McCoy

Cartoon above refers to the Live Action Planned Parenthood Racism Project.   If you missed it at the time or just want to refresh your memory (we ourselves had forgotten how disturbing these videos are) go back and check out  Live Action Planned Parenthood Racism Project.

Google Autocomplete Won't Suggest "Racist" or "KKK" for Margaret Sanger Search - but Yahoo, Bing, Aol & DuckDuckGo do

The power of suggestion.

When you type "Margaret Sanger" into any search engine (besides Google) the Autocomplete suggestions for Yahoo, Bing, Aol and DuckDuckGo include terms like "racist," "Negro Project," "eugenics," "KKK," and "colored people," among others.

The Google Autocomplete, however, will suggest none of those terms to finish a Margaret Sanger search.  Instead, the Google search engine suggests "apush," "speech," "award," and "books."

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Of the mere four words suggested by Google, only the term "award" is suggested by any of the other search engines.  We just find this strange.  What is the purpose of Autocomplete?  To help users find what they are most likely thinking?  Or is it to tell users what Google wants them to think? 

In her autobiography, Margaret Sanger states:

"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)

It is no surprise that researches, students, and the public at large are curious about Sanger's past.  Why was the founder of Planned Parenthood speaking to the KKK?  What did Margaret Sanger say in her speech to the KKK?  What racist quotes did Margaret Sanger use at the Klan rally?  

After the Klan rally, she states "a dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered."  Why was the KKK so enthusiastic about Sanger?  And as is well documented in our sidebar, Margaret Sanger is well know for a series of racist quotes.  Were some of the Margaret Sanger quotes used at Klan rallies?

(See 10-Eye-Opening Quotes From Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger from LifeNews.com.)

As demonstrated by the suggestions from the Autocomplete in all the other search engines, internet users are very curious about the racist past of the Planned Parenthood founder.

So why the strange suggestions from Google?

World's Most Famous Brain Surgeon: Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger "was trying to eliminate black people"

An interesting report from the always informative  Internet Monk:

http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/saturday-ramblings-july-25-2014

Ben Carson was asked this week about Obama’s support of Planned Parenthood. “You wonder if he actually knows the history of Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger, who was trying to eliminate black people,” Carson replied. “That was the whole purpose of it.” That is obviously political hyperbole. But founder Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist, who constantly talked about the need to keep “inferior” types from breeding, even if she did not specify the nature of their inferiority. “[We should] 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.” “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” And then there’s this:

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.

So here is a question worthy of discussion: is it hypocritical to decry the Confederate legacy and demand its flag be removed while many on the left, including Hillary, give accolades to Margaret Sanger?

Planned Parenthood: The Medical Arm of the Ku Klux Klan

What a great line from this essay on Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood by leftist blogger Hugo Schwyzer, The Troubled Sanger Legacy, Some Thoughts on Planned Parenthood:

Even now, I regularly hear from students — usually of color — who have been told (often by pastors in the African American church) that Planned Parenthood is, as one young woman put it, “the medical arm of the Ku Klux Klan”.

Margaret Sanger, Snopes, Planned Parenthood and the Ku Klux Klan

Margaret Sanger, Snopes, Planned Parenthood and the Ku Klux Klan

We really don't need to consult Snopes, the internet Urban Legend Reference Page, to answer the question, "Was Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger really a keynote speaker at a Ku Klux Klan Rally?"

This is an easy one.

Just turn to page 366 of the Margaret Sanger's own autobiography, Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography and read the following excerpt:

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)

And wait, did she just say:

 

A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.  (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)

Yep!  What did she say to these crazed Klan bigots that caused her to get 12 more invitations?  What kind of hate monger gets invited to 13 Ku Klux Klan rallies?   This blog seeks to answer those quations.

African-Americans ask "Why did founder of Planned Parenthood get invited to 13 KKK rallies?"

In her autobiography, Margaret Sanger tells us about one of her visits to a Ku Klux Klan rally:

"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)

Thirteen invitations to speak to the KKK?  For the founder of Planned Parenthood?  Why was she such a popular speaker with the Klan?  What kind of racist, bigot gets invited to 13 Ku Klux Klan rallies?

Well, the highly respected Black journalist, Lucky Rosenbloom, thinks he knows why.

Here is how Lucky explains it:

Lucky Rosenbloom

“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

Was Lucky overreacting?  Well, listen to what this former Ku Klux Klan and White Aryan Resistance leader, Tom Metzger, has to say:

“Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help to raise 
money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps abortion 
clinic syndicates throughout North America, that primarily operate in 
non-White areas and receive tax support, should be promoted.”

Metzger's dream sounds a lot like Sanger's dream Planned Parenthood .




Cartoon by Glenn McCoy

Planned Parenthood Spent $18 Million to Defeat GOP last year - Will GOP Congress Defund Planned Parenthood's Annual $500 Million?

It's time to kick the Billion Dollar Abortion Industry off welfare. 

Does a group founded by Ku Klux Klan keynote speaker, Margaret Sanger, really deserve half a billion dollars a year of our tax dollars?  If Planned Parenthood can afford to throw around $18 million dollars on an election, why does it need our tax dollars?

Planned Parenthood just spent $18 million dollars to try and elect and re-elect pro-abortion politicians who would have ensured that Planned Parenthood continues to receive its half a billion dollars of our tax dollars. That's right, the Billion Dollar Abortion Industry's biggest player, Planned Parenthood, gets $540 million in our tax dollars annually, and slaughters 330,000 or so unborn children each year.

Wake up GOP Congress.  You don't give half a billion dollars to people who are spending $18 million to defeat you. This is especially the especially the case when the organization getting the half a billion dollars is already making enough money selling severed baby heads and hearts.

When Planned Parenthood Even Creeped Out the Ku Klux Klan by Glenn McCoy

The great Glenn McCoy

Cartoon above refers to the Live Action Planned Parenthood Racism Project.   If you missed it at the time or just want to refresh your memory (we ourselves had forgotten how disturbing these videos are) go back and check out  Live Action Planned Parenthood Racism Project.

And of course, below is our other favorite by The great Glenn McCoy,  Note Margaret Sanger in the back framed picture, CLASSIC! And ouch, that tip jar!!!

And for more on Klanned Parenthood . 

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

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)

What did Margaret Sanger say in her talk at the KKK Rally 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.