Here is a sad tale of eugenics, as practiced in America...

and for much longer than many Americans realize.

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News from The Associated Press

 

We must examine our deepest, darkest history if we have any hope to stand erect in the sunlight. Justice delayed is justice denied for all, the innocent and the guilty.

 

I'm surprised how recently this still happened. You'd have "expected" the 1930s, not the 1970s!

 

I too was much surprised to see it last until the 1970's.

 

I was raised in California and until drafted had little contact with Afro-Americans (is this the PC label now?). In the early 1970’s I married a woman (at Ft. Hood, Texas) who’s family came from Mississippi.
On our first (and last) visit to her family her father ask me to go with him one morning to have some tires put on his truck.

He took me to the Sears and Roebuck in Meridian, Miss, where I had my introduction to institutionalized racism. There were two lines of vehicles waiting to be serviced, one for whites and one for blacks.

Well into the 20th Century Native American children in the US (and Canada I believe) were being forcibly removed from their families and placed in institutions to be "civilized”.

 

I hate to say it, but you know who initially started the Eugenics program in America? Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. A few of her colleagues even spoke to the SS about sterilization and gave them ideas.