In 1926, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a guest speaker at a KKK rally in Silverlake, New Jersey. Here is Sanger's account of her trip to talk to the Ku Klux Klan from her ...
In 1926, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a guest speaker at a KKK rally in Silverlake, New Jersey. Here is Sanger's account of her trip to talk to the Ku Klux Klan from her autobiography. All text and images form Fair Use. Text reads as follows: "...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. My letter of instruction told me what train to take, to walk from the station two blocks straight ahead, then two to the left. I would see a sedan parked in front of a restaurant. If I wished I could have ten minutes for a cup of coffee or bite to eat, because no supper would be served later. I obeyed orders implicitly, walked the blocks, saw the car, found the restaurant, went in and ordered some cocoa, stayed my allotted ten minutes, then approached the car hesitatingly and spoke to the driver. I received no reply. She might have been totally deaf as far as I was 1 concerned. Mustering up my courage, I climbed in and settled back. Without a turn of the head, a smile, or a word to let me know I was right, she stepped on the self-starter. For fifteen minutes we wound around the streets. It must have been towards six in the afternoon. We took this lonely lane and that through the woods, and an hour later pulled up in a vacant space near a body of water beside a large, unpainted, barnish building. My driver got out, talked with several other women, then said to me severely, "Wait here. We will come for you." She disappeared. More cars buzzed up the dusty road into the parking place. Occasionally men dropped wives who walked hurriedly and silently within. This went on mystically until night closed down and I was alone in the dark. A few gleams came through chinks in the window curtains. Even though it was May, I grew chillier and chillier. 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. Never before had I looked into a sea of faces like these. I was sure that if I uttered one word, such as abortion, outside the usual vocabulary of these women they would go off into hysteria. And so my address that night had to be in the most elementary terms, as though I were trying to make children understand. 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. Under a curfew law everything in Silver Lake shut at nine o'clock. I could not even send a telegram to let my family know whether I had been thrown in the river or was being held incommunicado. It was nearly one before I reached Trenton, and I spent the night in a hotel."
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This really makes a person think...about installing a urinal in the garage. Ted Kennedy was behind the criminalizing of Laetrile: the cure, preventative & treatment for the chronic metabolic disease known as cancer. He's maggot meat now. Let us support tax-funded abortions for all the Kennedys.
Who would speak to such a group and under such circumstances? Only someone who truly supported the elimination of blacks from American society. How sickening. Black folks should be outraged that Planned Parenthood looms in their neighborhoods, ready to steal their children.
uh...no...not in this regard...the Dems then and now are elitist Eugenist racists who hated blacks then & do now...Abe Lincoln was a Republican. He FREED the slaves.
It's the democrats that want to give the GLBT community equal rights for instance today and it's the Republicans that want to keep it away from them. It's all changed around now.
This basically proves that things have changed over time. If you want something like a political party to survive, their ideals must evolve or face extinction, and the democratic party as well as the Republican party has survived all of these years. I'm not a democrat, but you'd have to be stupid not to see that.
If you want an even more obvious example, how about the freakin president right now? He's black and a democrat. Of course, according to your alleged information, he wouldn't in his right mind be one if the democratic party were as racist and eugenic as you say today.
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This really makes a person think...about installing a urinal in the garage. Ted Kennedy was behind the criminalizing of Laetrile: the cure, preventative & treatment for the chronic metabolic disease known as cancer. He's maggot meat now. Let us support tax-funded abortions for all the Kennedys.
People wake up!
This basically proves that things have changed over time. If you want something like a political party to survive, their ideals must evolve or face extinction, and the democratic party as well as the Republican party has survived all of these years. I'm not a democrat, but you'd have to be stupid not to see that.