Kanye West on history: what the evidence says · JRE #1554
SUBJECT: HISTORY
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
Plan B and Planned Parenthood were planned by a eugenics that set out and said out loud, I'm doing this to kill the black race and to create population control.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
West claimed that Planned Parenthood's founder was a eugenicist who said out loud that the goal was to kill the Black race. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was a documented supporter of the eugenics movement, and her 1939 "Negro Project" letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble is the source most often cited by critics making this claim. But no historical record shows Sanger, or any Planned Parenthood founder, stating an intent to exterminate or kill Black people; the frequently quoted 1939 letter line, "we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," describes a rumor Sanger wanted a Black minister to help dispel, not a goal she was announcing. Fact-checkers examining a nearly identical claim made by Herman Cain in 2011 found no support for the assertion that Sanger's objective was to prevent Black babies from being born, and historians note the Negro Project had support from Black leaders including W.E.B. Du Bois and Mary McLeod Bethune. Sanger's eugenics-era views and racial attitudes remain legitimately controversial and debated among historians, but the specific claim that she or another founder explicitly declared a goal of killing the Black race is not supported by any known primary source and is assessed as false.