EUGENICS: Scientific Racism At It’s Best

By Pastor Ray Hagins, Ph.D.

The principal force behind eugenics is racism. Eugenics is the program that is expressed through
euthanasia, artificial or assisted insemination, environmental extremism, genetic engineering and coercive
population policies. Eugenics shapes and determines the outcome of debates over welfare reform and
health care reform. Eugenics is found in the social sciences (i.e., anthropology, sociology, and
psychology). Eugenics is found in modern literature, arts and entertainment (especially science fiction).
Eugenics is promoted in and through religion. Such a potent force deserves some study.
The key idea is simple: We breed better roses, better tomatoes, better dogs, better horses. Why do we
hesitate to breed better humans?
Eugenics is false science. It is about the selective prevention or encouragement of births for social, racial,
or political ends. When eugenic goals demand increased fertility, those goals may be advanced in the
name of national power, race survival, or even family support programs. Eugenics is essentially
concerned with competitive fertility.

If it is a particular race that is to targeted, for instance, the eugenicist will first offer a "scientific" basis for
such a plan -- usually consisting of statistical "evidence" that the disfavoured group is less capable of
achievement, more prone to anti-social behaviour, or otherwise disproportionately responsible for a
prevalent social problem. Most importantly, the eugenicist will insist that this "inferiority" is hereditary --
that "excessively" high birthrates among these people will lead to a general decline in the quality of the
society as a whole.

Thus the eugenicist will argue the legitimacy of a public policy that minimises procreation among certain
groups, while often simultaneously promoting greater fertility among other segments of the population.

High rates of incarceration (especially where a large number of young adults are concerned) may be
tolerated precisely because imprisonment results in a loss of reproductive opportunity.

The word eugenics comes from the Greek for "good genes." Therefore, any policy that is thought by
advocates to stimulate the prevalence of "good genes" is considered eugenic in its effect. Another term --
dysgenic -- is applied to a situation in which the undesirable elements grow at a greater rate than the rest.

This kind of thinking can be found in advocacy of such contemporary proposals as the "family cap" for
welfare parents, certain efforts to halt teen pregnancy, and the flap about and "illegitimacy."

Likewise, racial eugenics defines people from different regions of the world as having unique
"evolutionary characteristics" which make one group more suited to certain pursuits than another. This is
the ideology behind The Bell Curve and similar publications that have aroused controversy in the past few
years.

The fact that children inherit genetic characteristics from their parents, Eugenicists hold to the view that
"criminal tendencies" or an "underclass" culture should be addressed through social and political
discriminatory policies.

"Eugenics" involves the aim of racial purity, racial superiority, and the heritability of intelligence, virtue, or
vice.

In the book Aristotle to Zoos by Peter Medawar, (a member of the English Eugenics Society). Medawar
quotes Galton (on page 78), as follows:
"I do not see why any insolence of caste should prevent the gifted class, when they had
the power, from treating their compatriots with all kindness, so long as they maintained
celibacy. But if these continued to procreate children inferior in moral, intellectual and

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 physical qualities, it is easy to believe the time may come when such persons would be
considered as enemies to the State, and to have forfeited all claims to kindness."
Margaret Sanger, a member of both the American Eugenics Society and the English Eugenics Society, is
a particularly well-known proponent of eugenics. In the book , The Pivot of Civilization she is quoted to
say:
"Those least fit to carry on the race are increasing most rapidly ... Funds that should be
used to raise the standard of our civilization are diverted to maintenance of those who
should never have been born."
"Race Building in a Democracy" was the theme of the 1940 joint meeting of the Birth Control Federation
of America and the Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood. The Federation proclaimed:
1. "It is entirely fitting that 'Race Building in a Democracy' should have been chosen as the theme of
the annual meeting of the Birth Control Federation of America ..." (Birth Control Review, vol.
XXIV, January 1940.

My purpose in sharing this information is to expose the institutions, associations, and intellectual
disciplines which have been founded by, governed by or intellectually controlled by, members of the
America Eugenics Society. The point is to encourage a healthy skepticism about the politics of these
groups. For example, Planned Parenthood makes much over its program to reduce teen pregnancy,
eliminate V.D., and counter AIDS. It has most notably succeeded, however, in reducing the number of
births to people of color. To know that Planned Parenthood was founded by eugenicists like Margaret
Sanger and Medora Bass of Philadelphia is to receive some enlightenment as to why PP continues, year
after year, to fail so spectacularly at its stated goals, while producing what often passes for an
"unintended consequence.”

GOALS

Pre Hitler Goal: Race building by conscious selection -- backed with force.

In the book The Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant, co-founder American Eugenics Society;
Grant says:

"[Sterilization could] be applied to an ever widening circle of social discards, beginning always with the
criminal, the diseased and the insane, and extending gradually to types which may be called weaklings
rather than defectives, and perhaps ultimately to worthless race types."

Post-Hitler Goal: Race building by a "voluntary unconscious selection" implemented by deceptive

programs and manipulation.

1956
"The very word eugenics is in disrepute in some quarters ... We must ask ourselves, what have we done
wrong?

"People (Negroes) simply are not willing to accept the idea that the genetic base on which their character
was formed is inferior and should not be repeated in the next generation. We have asked whole groups of
people to accept this idea and we have asked individuals to accept it. They simply won't accept the idea
that they are in general second rate. We must rely on other motivation. ... it is surely possible to build a
system of voluntary unconscious selection. But the reasons advanced must be generally acceptable
reasons. Let's stop telling anyone that they have a generally inferior genetic quality, for they will never
agree; and perhaps our proposals will be accepted."

After the release of The Bell Curve, the American Psychological Association convened a task force of
experts to address the realities of intelligence, culminating in a publication of a consensus report in 1995
entitled Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns. They determined, as a collective of experts, that Blacks are
in fact less intelligent than Whites.

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According to the book “Race and IQ” edited by Ashley Montagu, Oxford University Press, New York 1999,
“the average IQs of Blacks developed over tens of thousands of years, as they were isolated in sub-
Saharan Africa. There was extremely little mixing with other races outside of this region. At the same
time, Caucasians and Eastern Asians were according to most researchers, evolving higher intelligences.

Dr. Clarence Gamble and the Pathfinder International

Population Research Institute Review, July/August 1996, p. 5.

One of the most militant, well-funded, and pervasive organizations promoting population control
throughout the world _ especially in underdeveloped nations _ has been Pathfinder International,
formerly known as the Pathfinder Fund prior to a 1991 name change.

Founded in 1957 by the wealthy eugenicist and population control advocate Clarence Gamble,
heir to part of the Gamble fortune from the Proctor and Gamble soap company billions, Pathfinder
was one of the very first organizations to fund overseas population control programs. (Clarence
Gamble himself was "the first American" individual to fund such activities.) After Gamble's death in 1966,
Pathfinder prospered greatly due to substantial funding from a new entity which entered the population
control field with very deep pockets indeed: the United States Agency for International Development
(USAID).

THE "NEGRO PROJECT"

In 1939, Margaret Sanger's new Birth Control Federation of America, a merger of her American
Birth Control League and her research arm, the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, designed
a "Negro Project" which sought to bring about a major birth-rate reduction among American
Negroes. Such a result, according to the goals of the project, would help solve the problem of
Southern Negro poverty. According to the project proposal, widely believed to have been written
by Gamble, "The mass of Negroes, particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously,
with the result that the [population] increase among Negroes...is from that portion...least
intelligent and fit, and least able to rear children properly."

The project was to hire three or four "colored Ministers, preferably with social-service
backgrounds, and with engaging personalities" to travel through the South and propagandize for
birth control. As the project proposal stated, "The most successful educational approach to the
Negro is through a religious appeal."

In a remarkably frank letter to Gamble, Sanger wrote that "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."

Gamble in turn proposed that the ministers enlist the aid of black physicians and attempt to
organize a "Negro Birth Control Committee" in each community. In a private memo concerning
the "Colored Steering Committee," Gamble wrote that "There is great danger that [the project]
will fail because the Negroes think it a plan for extermination. Hence let's appear to let the
colored run it...."

MOBILIZING OPPOSITION TO BROWN BABIES

The ethnic cleansing people are powerful. Ted Turner of CNN is one of the leaders in the MOB in the
elimination of Brown people and collaborates with the United Nations and International Planned
Parenthood in this project. He recently made a commitment to the United Nations program of population
control in the amount of one billion dollars. This is the group that is insisting on massive sterilizations of
whole countries. Planned Parenthood presents itself as a group that helps the community

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TURNER FUNDS QUINACRINE

A vaginally inserted pellet, Quinacrine, sterilizes a woman by burning her fallopian tubes and upper uterus
with acid. The attraction of this procedure for Turner and others is that it can be performed without
advanced training and the pellets cost only a penny apiece. Short-term medical consequences include
abnormal bleeding, fetal exposure, uterine lesions, ectopic pregnancies, backaches, fever, lower
abdominal pain and headaches. Independent labora-tory studies show long-term side effects could
include cancer.

Quinacrine was made by two men in the United States, Dr. Elton Kessel and Stephen Mumford, and
exported first to India and Bangladesh. According to The Daily Star newspaper published in Bangladesh
(10/21/98),

Quinacrine is not allowed in the United States and was declared unsafe by the World Health Organization
in 1993.

THE NEGRO PROJECT:

The Negro Project was supervised by a special committee that included Margaret Sanger, Mary
Lasker, and Clarence Gamble. It was guided by a national Negro Advisory Council made up of
representatives of 25 major black organizations and universities, and included many prominent
black leaders. With the help of local community organizations the Negro Project assembled
clinical data to influence the adoption of clinics and contraceptive techniques primarily in the black
communities of the South

Planned Parenthood’s founder and matriarch, Margaret Sanger in the 1930s ingeniously promoted her
ideology that the "unfit" should be prevented from reproducing, "by force if necessary." Since the
economic plight of many Blacks placed them and their families in the position of living in an environment
that Sanger believed breed "unfit" individuals, her organization zeroed in on the "Negro" population.
Establishing the "Negro Project," Sanger and her cohorts set out to push their birth control agenda which
as she writes "is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of
preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives" (The Pivot of Civilization written
by M. Sanger)

In November 1939 a "Negro Project" leader feared that the project would be in "a great danger" of failing
because "the Negroes think it a plan for extermination." Therefore, "let’s appear to let the colored run
it ...." (Gamble memo "Suggestions for Negro Project" excerpted from pamphlet issued by the African
American Committee, A.L.L.) Sanger later wrote him back saying, "We do not want the word to go out
that we want to exterminate the Negro population ..." She goes on saying that use of the Negro minister
would effectively "straighten ... any rebellious members." (Letter from Sanger to Gamble, excerpted from
pamphlet issued by the African American Committee, A.L.L.) "With social service backgrounds, and
engaging personalities" the "hired ... Colored Ministers" would "propagandized for birth control ... "through
a religious appeal." To help maintain control, the colored ministerial staff would be carefully controlled. "A
project director lamented ‘I wonder if Southern Darkies can ever be entrusted with ... a clinic. Our
experience causes us to doubt their ability to work except under White supervision’." Through her Negro
Advisory Council, Sanger’s dream of discouraging "the defective and diseased elements of humanity"
from their "reckless and irresponsible swarming and spawning" has been successful. (Excerpts from
Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood)

Elitist Bigotry: A Black and White Issue. We must realize that elitist bigotry was not (and is not) reserved
for the white Sangers of her day. There were blacks even then who agreed that unfit segments resided in
the Negro/Colored population. To some elite Negroes, it was only reasonable to believe elimination of the
unfit within the community would cleaned up the race as a whole. Negroes would then eventually evolve
into the black Aryan race. Birth control was promoted within the "Negro" population by blacks and whites

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camouflaged as a means to eliminate unwanted pregnancies when, in fact, it was a systematic means to
discourage the continued procreation within our poorer, less educated ranks.

For Planned Parenthood, internal cooperation from the "colored elite" was highly desired. In fact, another
"Negro Project" leader stated at a birth control annual meeting in January 1942, that she could not
"overemphasize the importance of utilizing Negro professionals ..." they should be "fully integrated into
the staff of this organization .... ." She went on stating that their "day to day contacts" within their own
community would serve to "break down fallacious attitudes and beliefs and elements of distrust; could
inspire the confidence of the group; and [these professionals] would not be suspected of the
[organization’s] intent to eliminate the race.". (A Negro Project report excerpted from the pamphlet issued
by the African American Committee, A.L.L.)

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``The [government] must put the most modern medical means in the service of this knowledge....
Those who are physically and mentally unhealthy and unworthy must not perpetuate their
suffering in the body of their children.... The prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate
on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over a period of only 600 years,
would ... free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune.''

``The per capita income gap between the developed and the developing countries is increasing,
in large part the result of higher birth rates in the poorer countries.... Famine in India, unwanted
babies in the United States, poverty that seemed to form an unbreakable chain for millions of
people--how should we tackle these problems?.... It is quite clear that one of the major challenges
of the 1970s ... will be to curb the world's fertility.''

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