Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood to exterminate the Negro race

Thanks again to my opponent for this debate.To the points:"I contend it follows that any Eugenicist who deems a race inferior also deems them 'feeble-minded'." That is not true. Feeble-minded was a specific term for a form of developmental disorder, back in the day.[1]Eugenicists generally separated their arguments about the "epileptic, imbecile or feeble-minded" and what they perceived as "inferior" races. [2]Further, in their attempts to be "scientific", they generally correlated fitness to financial stability. So while the lower classes were "were predominately immigrants or women of color", and those classes were "encouraged to use birth control" [2], that was tied to their socio-economic status, rather than specifically to their race.There is no evidence that Margaret Sanger advocated for complete birth control among the lower classes, but rather the ability for them to family plan. And my opponent has offered no evidence that Sanger advocated for birth control among the upper-class African-American community.No evidence other than that singular quote, and only if that quote is interpreted in the way my opponent wishes to interpret it, has been presented that Sanger felt African-Americans were so inherently inferior as to require extermination.Let's look at the full context of the quote in question (well, perhaps not FULL context, as the letter also had wishes for Gamble's good health, and some other ancillary comments that do not affect the meaning of the following...the reader may refer to [3] to read the whole letter for themselves; the specific quote is on the second page of the letter):"Miss Rose sent me a copy of your letter of December 5th and I note that you doubt it worthwhile to employ a full time Negro physician. It seems to me from my experience where I have been in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas, that while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors, they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. They do not do this with the white people, and if we can train the Negro doctor at the clinic he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I believe, will have far-reaching results among the colored people. His work, in my opinion, should be entirely with the Negro progression and the nurses, hospital, social workers, as well as the County’s white doctors. His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us. The minister’s work is also important, and also he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation, as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." (Sanger, 1939, December). [3] It's clear Sanger was speaking about the ability of the ministers to "straighten out" the "ignorance, superstitions and doubts". She is advocating that the ministers be "trained...as to our ideals and the goal we hope to reach". In order to interpret the sentence the way my opponent wishes to interpret it, then, requires us to say that she was lying in her statement to train the ministers in the "goal [they hoped] to reach" (because they would keep this secret in their attempts to continue to deceive the African-American community). I do not deny the possibility, but then, if she was planning that, and was concerned enough that her letter might be read that she put lies in the letter about training the ministers, it stands to reason she would have made it a point to phrase the sentence in question better, too.The best explanation that does not require contradiction is that she intended it as most scholars interpret it: that "We do not want word to go out out that we want to exterminate the Negro population" means "We do not want rumors that we want to exterminate the Negro population to go around", Sanger's "Negro Project" was undertaken after W.E.B. DuBois (founder of the NAACP) recommended something similar to it be initiated. He said:"The mass of significant Negroes, particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among ignorant Negroes, even more than among whites, is [in] that portion of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear children properly." [4]Sanger had various objectionable opinions, but the evidence does not bear out that she wanted to exterminate African-Americans. In a letter in 1942, she wrote:"I believe that the Negro question is coming definitely to the fore in America, not only because of the war, but in anticipation of the place the Negro will occupy after the peace. I think it is magnificent that we are in on the ground floor, helping Negroes to con trol their birthrate, to reduce their high infant and maternal death rate, to maintain better standards of health and living for those already born, and to create better opportunities to help themselves, and to rise to their own heights through education and the principles of a democracy." [4] Those are not the words of someone intending to exterminate a race. My opponent says ”I shouldn't need to prove exterminating the Negro race was the sole intention of the founding of Planned Parenthood it was never said or implied by me at any point.” I repeat that, technically, you said that when you said “Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood to exterminate the Negro race", rather than "one of the reasons that Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood was to encourage extermination of the Negro race". It's a semantical argument, true, but then, this debate has hinged on a semantical argument. However, if my opponent could show that it was even a reason, I would concede this debate. He has yet to do so, instead relying on assumptions that he has not established. [1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org...[2] -- http://en.wikipedia.org...[3] -- http://smithlibraries.org...[4] -- http://www.wordswillnever.com... (the pdf on this page is what contains the quotes linked to [4])