links for 2008-​​06-​​28

One Response to links for 2008-​​06-​​28

1. Senior says:

   June 28, 2008 at 9:42 am

   Where to begin.…

   Regarding Sanger.

   Her famous quote? “We do not want word to go out that we want to exter­mi­nate the Negro pop­u­la­tion” seems to mean one thing, but in con­text it has a very dif­fer­ent meaning…

   “It seems to me from my expe­ri­ence … in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas, that while the col­ored Negroes have great respect for white doc­tors, they can get closer to their own mem­bers and more or less lay their cards on the table.… They do not do this with the white peo­ple, and if we can train the Negro doc­tor at the clinic, he can go among them with enthu­si­asm and with knowl­edge, which, I believe, will have far-​​reaching results.… His work, in my opin­ion, should be entirely with the Negro pro­fes­sion and the nurses, hos­pi­tal, social work­ers, as well as the County’s white doc­tors. His suc­cess will depend upon his per­son­al­ity and his train­ing by us. The minister’s work is also impor­tant, and also 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 .”

   http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2005/06/14/urban_legends_of_the_abortion_debate.php

   And as for the recorded phone calls. This is called entrap­ment in law enforce­ment. Maybe an indi­vid­ual racist or two was uncov­ered (there are still plenty of racists in this coun­try), but the calls do not in any way con­sti­tute evi­dence that Planned Parenthood’s mis­sion is racist.

   I under­stand that you are not ever going to think that Planned Parenthood is doing good things, but why you must par­tic­i­pate in the spread­ing of lies.…

   As for the sin­ful children…well, I would sug­gest you might study a cou­ple of books on child devel­op­ment. But then again, your world view requires you to believe we’re all bad, so I don’t see the point.

   Obama a Marxist?? That’s a bit of a stretch. Typical of what passes for polit­i­cal dia­log in this coun­try. Whenever some­one takes a posi­tion that one dis­agrees with, one just exag­ger­ates the bias and calls them an extrem­ist. No won­der there doesn’t seem to be any mod­er­ates any­more. Not because there are none, but because every­one is labeled an extremist.

   Will Obama appoint Supreme Court Justices that will likely not over­turn Roe v. Wade? Yes. But your free­dom to not have an abor­tion will remain unfettered.

   Besides, the prob­lem isn’t too many abor­tions, the prob­lem is too many unwanted preg­nan­cies. Even if abor­tion was ille­gal, there would still be too many of them because the under­ly­ing cause will not have been addressed.

   As for Canada. I agree they have gone over the edge if that is the way things are there. Political cor­rect­ness is a bad thing.