This is just beyond the pale...And honestly I really wish it was an example of Poe's Law, but I really can't say for sure.
Pro-Life and Faith Based Organizations to Launch "Defund Klanned Parenthood" Campaign
Now, attacking Planned Parenthood on the very incorrect basis that it targets minorities, specifically African-Americans, is not a new thing. Even alleged possible maybe presidential candidate Rick Santorum was promoting the false idea of PP conducting eugenics the other day.
But the stuff they're talking about doing here is just extreme.
As part of their public witness against the racist roots of Planned Parenthood, they will cover the entire lawn of Planned Parenthood with white sheets, a longtime symbol of the KKK.
Their mistaken belief behind any supposed racism in the history of Planned Parenthood comes from a letter drafted by the founder, Margaret Sanger. A line from the letter was taken horrifically out of context as she described wanting to teach a Black doctor about performing abortions and how she had given a speech to a women's subgroup within the KKK, which in the same autobiography, they patently ignore how she described the experience being like talking to children and how surreal it was.
Here's the quote they are taking out of context:
We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.
Here's what the full letter says:
It seems to me from my experience . . . 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. . . . 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. . . . His work, in my opinion, should be entirely with the Negro profession 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 (1939)
They plan on making the announcement tomorrow during a demonstration at the Planned Parenthood facility in Washington D.C. at 10 am based on this mistaken belief. I'm worried that if more and more right wingers start attaching to this line of debate, it might begin encroaching on the mainstream as shown time and time again.