through abortions. She made Black people believe the problems with rac- ism and poverty in America were the people themselves, not the system. Therefore, the solution to the racial problems was to have fewer children or none at all. WEB Dubois was one of the biggest proponents of Sanger and her beliefs. Dubois wrote in his article “Black Folk and Birth Control” that there is an “inevitable clash of ideals between those Negroes who were striv- ing to improve their economic position and those whose religious faith made the limitation of children a sin.” He considered Blacks who desired families and children be a “mass of ignorant Ne- groes” who bred “carelessly and disastrous- ly so that the increase among [them] … is from that part of the popula- tion least intel-


Margeret Sanger


ligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly.” He, along with the Urban League,


a Black church and several others en- dorsed her Planned Parenthood clinic in Harlem. Sanger believed in eugen- ics: the encouraging the births of the desirables and fit and the prevention of births of those undesirable. Sanger saw Blacks as unfit to exist and saw it as a duty to prevent the births of as many as possible. Blacks were easily conviced because Sanger Successfully linked high reproduction to prolonged pover-


ty and degradation. and less children to happiness and prosperity. The legacy of the Negro Project is very shocking. To- day, Black women have 1452 abortions a day in the US. since the first abortion Clinic in Harlem, Black women have had more than 13,000,000 abortions. Thats bigger than the population of some countries. Sanger was very suc- cessful in convincing Black people to devalue their own children and partici- pate in exterminating their own race. (http://www.blackgenocide.org/negro. html)


COINTELPRO: Counter Intellegence Program, a se-


cret project created by the FBI in 1955 to gather intelligence, infiltracte, des- rupt and even sabotage the activities of Black organizations and leaders. Its main objectives were: 1. To prevent the coalition of militant Black groups; 2. Prevent the rise of a messiah that can unify and electrify the militant Black Nationalist Movement; 3 Prevent Mili- tant Black Nationalist groups and lead- ers from gaining respectability, by dis- crediting them to the community; and 4. to prevent the long-range growth of militant Black Nationalist organiza- tions.


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