Article here, although it may be behind a paywall. It's about the possibly-upcoming Supreme Court case about Planned Parenthood targeting black populations for abortions.
The comments are a mixed bag. Apparently Planned Parenthood sent its minions out to blame everyone else for "forcing" unwanted children on young people who had already conceived them; another mentioned doing a school paper in the 70s on it and seems to claim that the absence of bad press back then proves Margaret Sanger was on the up and up. Fortunately someone else commented--since a lot of those minions don't waste the time to read the articles they're criticizing once they receive their marching orders--that 70% of PP clinics are in black neighborhoods. Couple that with the fact that "well, abortions are only one option we provide that isn't even a big part of the business no matter how much we promote it" is a deception, and you can see where the arrow of deliberateness is pointing.
But regardless, I think this is the inevitable result of the thinking that justified what became America's institution of chattel slavery, and even LBJ's own "southern strategy."
I'm not confusing that with what they accused Nixon of. I'm talking about the stuff that echoes what slaveowners used to tell their discontented slaves: "If you leave the plantation, who will feed you? Where will you find shelter? Who will give you clothing to wear?"
Is that really so far off from the welfare rhetoric we hear today?
Of course it's not. And it all stems from the notion that black people are unable to overcome, whether by their own efforts or by help from those bleeding-heart burdened White Men, their victimhood. And no, I won't say "people of color" instead of "black" because American chattel slavery was primarily a phenomenon attached to people of African descent, not Latin America or Asia--even though in the early days, some slaveowners were black and some slaves were white; not to mention slavery that exists outside of or existed before western civilization itself.
Think about that the next time someone tries to convince you that white hegemony is an end in itself. Accusations of being white on the inside will only get you so far.
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