OPINION:
The Congressional Black Caucus has introduced a bill into the House of Representatives to establish a commission to study the idea of reparations for slavery (“Sheila Jackson Lee says reparations bill will get a floor vote,” Web, July 1). To try to make the general population pay reparations for slavery would meet immense opposition and would not help Black people, who are enduring the effects of systematic racism through poverty, broken families, poor education and crime.
Systematic racism originated from the racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger in the early 20th century, when she founded the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood. Sanger’s goal was to eliminate African-Americans from the U.S., and Planned Parenthood has kept Sanger’s goal alive through their elimination of Black babies through abortion.
The best way to help Black people mired in poverty is to rebuild and strengthen the Black family. The Congressional Black Caucus should look to Planned Parenthood for reparations. But since the Democrats’ campaigns are all being financed by Planned Parenthood, that’s not likely to happen.
JOHN NAUGHTON
Silver Spring, Md.
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