Black Women: Baby Makers or Baby Killers?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4668c8O8XfI&feature=BFa&list=PLAA6D5AE0F1172DD9&index=2
According to Clenard Childress, “the most dangerous place for an African American to be is in the womb of their African American mother.” From claims of being the least attractive women in the world (Satoshi Kanazawa’s study), to schizophrenically being viewed as both “irresponsible baby makers” and unrepentant “baby killers,” Black women find their roles as mother, daughter, lover, and grandmother under attack. This is not a new situation but what is at issue is the consequences that these attacks have on all black women’s ability to live as self-determining human beings.
In Chicago (and all over the country) , black women are being targeted by LifeAlways, a pro-life (read: anti-choice) organization, through ad campaigns meant to target black women’s “over-reliance” on Abortion as a form of birth-control. According to Black Women for Reproductive Justice (BWRJ), Its “research has revealed that LifeAlways is, in fact, financially supported by the anti-choice group Heroic Media which has been involved in numerous fundraising events for former Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Regardless at 5812 South State Street hang ads with a profile of President Obama claiming that “every 21 minutes our next possible leader is aborted.” Yeah, powerfully stated, but it erases facts: 1) Obama’s mother was white; 2) the lack of viable alternatives to abortion for certain women; 3) and the very unimaginable situations that create unplanned pregnancies faced by women in general. However, I agree, in part, with the larger efforts by some anti-choice persons to better inform black Americans men andwomen about the history of reproductive rights and Planned Parenthood in the United States.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuwEEDP_wYc&feature=BFa&list=PLAA6D5AE0F1172DD9&index=5
In this 10 minute clip, you get a tailored history lesson on the racist agenda that spawned Planned Parenthood. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned-Parenthood was a racist and an eugenicist, she referred to black people as “reckless breeders” inclined towards producing “human weeds” that “never should have been born.” With this information, the role of liberal and conservative becomes more complex and difficult to decipher (at least for me).
Since Reagan, we’ve made references to the welfare queen and the irresponsible black mothers having babies that they can’t take care of, and who then rely upon the government to support their children and themselves. Now recently, we’ve become just as accustomed to seeing black women persecuted by white and black people—largely—males for black women’s efforts to not be an ‘irresponsible baby maker.’ Although I am pro-choice, I am deeply troubled by the untenable relationship between the past objectives and the current situation (see chart above). When do we assess the agenda of an organization created by racists and eugenicists? How do we address the current situation where black women’s reproductive rights are possibly narrowly defined as irresponsible no matter her choice?
And yet, Margaret Sanger was an equal opportunity eugenist. She also believed that anyone who could not afford to raise children should be sterilized (that included white women). She also wanted individuals who are deemed mentally and physically disabled to be sterilized (no matter the race). So…basically the safest place to be as a fetus is a wealthy pure white woman who has no history of mental or physical disabilities (or traces of any other race) in her family?
I think this whole thing of using Margaret Sanger is ridiculous and just a right wing tactic to again try and control all women’s right to choose.
The other thing about Sanger is that she staunchly believed in women’s right to birth control. She did not believe that women’s reproduction should be controlled by men. So ok, let’s get rid of abortion…are we also going to get rid of birth control.
Look, I’m not saying that she’s awesome. I think her politics for the most part sucked. But I’m happy there’s birth control and yes, abortion is sad but it exists. And an extremely extremely personal choice for women–all women!
And yet, Margaret Sanger was an equal opportunity eugenist. She also believed that anyone who could not afford to raise children should be sterilized (that included white women). She also wanted individuals who are deemed mentally and physically disabled to be sterilized (no matter the race). So…basically the safest place to be as a fetus is a wealthy pure white woman who has no history of mental or physical disabilities (or traces of any other race) in her family?
I think this whole thing of using Margaret Sanger is ridiculous and just a right wing tactic to again try and control all women’s right to choose.
The other thing about Sanger is that she staunchly believed in women’s right to birth control. She did not believe that women’s reproduction should be controlled by men. So ok, let’s get rid of abortion…are we also going to get rid of birth control.
Look, I’m not saying that she’s awesome. I think her politics for the most part sucked. But I’m happy there’s birth control and yes, abortion is sad but it exists. And an extremely extremely personal choice for women–all women!
She is still irresponsible fucking like a rabbit knowing she isnt ready for kids. If u cant afford to take care of kids why are u fuckijng period?
Masturbation and dildos wont kill u. What she is doing is much worse than the welfare queen. The reason sooooo many black women are childless now is because they are participating in reckless slut culture like black man, and when a life is in her womb she wants to kill it. Black women are mothers of too many dead children. They are killing black kids out of convience, its narcissistic, and total lack of value of a human life. Being able to kill ure kids, does not solve the sexual irresponsibility, it makes it worst. The fact that they kill in the 100,000 of black kids in the womb MONTHLY, is definately WAY MORE then the murders black men commit on blacks monthly. We are morally decayed as a race and genociding our own. In fact doing a much better job than the kkk. But need more proof of their reckless sex and irresponsibility our rates for HIV, HERPES AND OTHER STDS ARE HIIIIIGH. Killing innocent lives and contracting stds. And then opposed to marriage, so many are.