tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174353404791497728.post6541792044269159197..comments2019-06-03T04:06:42.097-07:00Comments on Jackel Journeys: the fight for justice: eugenicsBrandon and Crystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02846382539494491608noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174353404791497728.post-36959526661664000642011-03-12T10:11:34.062-08:002011-03-12T10:11:34.062-08:00Thanks for the video, very informative :)Thanks for the video, very informative :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174353404791497728.post-12495840043891876662010-12-02T07:50:20.804-08:002010-12-02T07:50:20.804-08:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEja-1emRichttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEja-1emRicBrandon and Crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02846382539494491608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174353404791497728.post-64510464212671699902010-12-01T21:23:39.409-08:002010-12-01T21:23:39.409-08:00The claims made in this post are poorly mis-inform...The claims made in this post are poorly mis-informed and show a lack of historical knowledge regarding the roots of racism and eugenics.<br /><br />Racism was around long before the modern understanding of eugenics. While it could be said in the general sense that racism has been part of the human condition since the "fall of man," it can more specifically be traced to the time period leading up to when the Church and Europeans began enslaving the peoples of Africa and other lands. As Europe and the Church were preparing to divide up Africa to exploit resources for profit, they knew the public would need to be sold the justification for these actions. Exploitative actions which included slavery. They needed to design a system which would place Africans and other dark skinned peoples at a lower status in every area of life. People had to be taught this. Furthermore, the people who were eventually enslaved had to be systematically de-humanized over several generations so the damage to their psycho-social-spiritual self would be lasting and passed on. This is exactly what happened and we are still seeing the effects today.<br /><br />So when you make claims about the roots of modern racism being directly linked to Darwinism, Eugenics, and Margaret Sanger, you are making false, severely misinformed, and flat out wrong claims.<br /><br />While you may disagree with Darwin's theories and findings, he actually had very little to do with slavery and racism. As for the Eugenics movement in the U.S. and other western nations, they were operating on centuries old lies which had been constructed and fabricated to perpetuate the "differences" between "races." These fabrications coming primarily from the Church and Europeans. As years of thorough, scholarly research has shown, the very idea of race is a social construct. (If you have attended a liberal arts college and taken sociology courses or others dealing with foundational issues of race, class, and gender, you would have a basic understanding regarding present day perceptions of race.) I am in no way defending the notion of a "perfect race," I am merely pointing out the gaping holes in your claims.<br /><br />As for Margaret Sanger, her primary goal was to give women and families in poverty a fighting chance at survival. She knew that it was a tragedy and great measure of irresponsibility for children to be born into a world and family which could not provide for them. Which is why she knew birth control needed to be accessible for all. The language in her writings was indeed strong in regards to a "perfect race," but I think she is poorly misunderstood. In a sense, I see her as making satire or mocking the "American Dream" or idealism of the "perfect American race." I do not believe she was motivated by racism or by eugencis. But then I suppose like many other writings, the view on these issues can be largely dependent on the individual reader and interpretation.<br /><br />So please, before you continue repeating claims made by so many others for the sake of peddling this particular position on birth control and abortion, conduct some real research and do some reading so you will know your history more accurately. Then you might have a halfway decent argument based on more concrete, historical facts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174353404791497728.post-32379005509161850242010-11-29T12:42:40.942-08:002010-11-29T12:42:40.942-08:00People can purchase their own copy of Maafa21 and ...People can purchase their own copy of Maafa21 and find out how racist and eugenics Margaret Sanger and her band of Planned Parenthood was - here http://www.maafa21.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com