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\u201cNon-white races must be excluded from America \u2026 The red and black races if left to themselves revert to a savage or semi-savage stage in a short time.\u201d – Lothrop Stoddard<\/em><\/p>\n

Margaret Sanger, founder of the American Birth Control League (ABCL), which became Planned Parenthood<\/a> in 1942, had on her ABCL\u00a0board<\/a> a number of controversial directors. Among them was a man named Lothrop Theodore Stoddard, a journalist and author who served on Sanger’s National Council, her ABCL\u00a0Board of Directors<\/a>, and the conference committee of the First American Birth Control Conference<\/a>. He was also published in Sanger’s publication, the Birth Control Review (BCR).\u00a0Like Sanger, Stoddard was a member of the American Eugenics Society and had connections to the Ku Klux Klan. And, like\u00a0many within the eugenics movement who helped to found Planned Parenthood, Stoddard had a poor view of minorities and people of color.<\/p>\n

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Lothrop Stoddard, ABCL\/Planned Parenthood Director<\/p><\/div>\n

Stoddard is featured in a powerful documentary on the history of Planned Parenthood, which Live Action is screening on social media this week. It is called Maafa21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America<\/a> and was produced by Life Dynamics, Inc., based out of Denton, Texas. The term eugenics<\/em>, according to the film, was coined by Francis Galton, a cousin to Charles Darwin. Eugenicists like Stoddard and Sanger and others within her leadership believed that it was the superior race’s duty to limit the population of those who were seen by them as inferior. The American eugenics movement primarily set their eyes upon limiting the population of the Black race.<\/p>\n

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Image: American Eugenics Society document<\/p><\/div>\n

This can be seen fairly clearly in Stoddard’s book, “The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man<\/a>,” where he writes in part, “Much more serious is the problem presented by those far more numerous stocks which, while transcending the plane of mere savagery, have stopped at some level of barbarism…. Deceptive veneers of civilization may be acquired, but reversion to congenital barbarism ultimately takes place. To such barbarian stocks belong many of the people of Asia, the American Indians and the African [N]egroes. These congenital barbarians have always been dangerous foes of progress…”<\/p>\n

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Eugenicist Lothrop Stoddard demeans Blacks in book (Image credit: The Revolt Against Civilization)<\/p><\/div>\n

Maafa21 quotes Stoddard as saying:<\/p>\n

\u201cNon-white races must be excluded from America \u2026 The red and black races if left to themselves revert to a savage or semi-savage stage in a short time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lothrop Stoddard quote on non White Races (Image credit: Maafa21)<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n

In the late 1920s, Stoddard was asked this question in a lively radio\u00a0debate<\/a> with WEB Dubois: “Shall the Negro be encouraged to seek cultural equality? Has the Negro the same intellectual possibilities as other races?”<\/p>\n

His answer, “No!”<\/p>\n

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Chicago Forum Council. One of the greatest debates ever held, 1929. W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1920,\u00a0Stoddard<\/a> published his book, “The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy<\/a>,” which contained numerous statements that today would be viewed as racist. The book was introduced by another eugenicist leader by the name of Madison Grant, whose own book, “The Passing of the Great Race,” was said to have been viewed as Adolf Hitler’s “bible” of sorts.<\/p>\n

According to author Angela Franks<\/a>, the text in Stoddard’s book contained such inflammatory statements as the following:<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018Finally perish!\u2019 That is the exact alternative which confronts the white race\u2026. Just as we isolate the bacterial invasions, and starve out the bacteria, by limiting the area and amount of their food supply, so we can compel an inferior race to remain in its native habitat\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lothrop Stoddard wrote racist book The Rising Tide of Color, and sat on Margaret Sanger’s board<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It was after “The Rising Tide of Color” was published that Sanger invited Stoddard to join her organization. His book was reviewed by Havelock Ellis, a long-time friend of Sanger’s, in a piece called, “The World’s Racial Problem,” published in the October 1920 edition<\/a> of Sanger’s Birth Control Review.\u00a0Although the review was, at times, critical of Stoddard, Ellis wrote<\/a>\u00a0in part:<\/p>\n

Dr. Stoddard possesses, however, all the temperamental optimism and self-confidence of the white Nordic man whose champion he remains throughout…. Since by the prejudice of color, we must mostly be on his side in this matter, we may profitably meditate on the reasonable considerations he brings forward…. The old checks of the increase of population have largely fallen away, that is why we see today the excessive fertility which threatens to drown the whole world in blood. “The real enemy of the dove of peace,” as Stoddard put it, “is not the eagle of pride or the vulture of greed, but the stork.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ellis also wrote, “Looking at the matter, as Dr. Stoddard looks at it, from the white and more especially the Nordic standpoint, which is that of England even more than America, the danger that menaces our position is the immediate future, and our very existence on the more remote future is three fold: the peril of arms, the peril of markets and the peril of immigrants.”<\/p>\n

According to Maafa21, Stoddard’s book\u00a0<\/em>was widely promoted by the Ku Klux Klan. The film also states that in another book, “The Dragon and the Cross,” Stoddard was identified as the Exalted Cyclops of the Massachusetts chapter of the Klan.<\/p>\n

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Lothrop Stoddard (a member of Margaret Sanger’s board) – book used by Klan (Image credit: Maafa21)<\/p><\/div>\n

Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger herself once met with members of the Klan and described that meeting in her autobiography, writing in part,\u00a0 “I accepted an invitation to talk to the women\u2019s branch of the Ku Klux Klan\u2026. I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses\u2026. I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak\u2026. In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.”<\/p>\n

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Margaret Sanger writes about Klan meeting in Autobiography (Image credit: Maafa21)<\/p><\/div>\n

In 1921, Sanger’s BCR published the\u00a0review<\/a>\u00a0of Stoddard’s “The Revolt Against Civilization<\/a>,” which, according to reviewer,\u00a0Juliet Barrett Rublee<\/a>, Stoddard gave instructions for “race purification.” Rublee,\u00a0a staunch birth control activist and friend of Sanger’s, described Stoddard’s book as “courageous, and full of fine enthusiasm and vigor of thought and spirit.”<\/p>\n

The first step Stoddard recommended to protect the American population was, according to Rublee, “the prevention of all obvious degenerates from having children.” Another step to be taken, according to Stoddard, was “segregation of defectives, appreciation of racial principles, wise marriage selection, Birth Control: these are the main items in the program of race purification.”\u00a0The BCR review quoted Stoddard as writing the following:<\/p>\n