Ted Cruz busted his former constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe yesterday and in the process dropped a fistful of knowledge about Margaret Sanger and her racist eugenics program targeting blacks.
It all started with this tweet by Tribe:
White Supremacists oppose abortion because they fear it’ll reduce the number of white infants and thus contribute to what they fear as non-white “replacement.” Never underestimate the way these issues and agendas are linked. This turns “intersectionality” on its head.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 11, 2019
This flies in the face of everything I’ve ever heard, read, or studied about abortion. Historically it has disproportionately targeted black women and you’d think White Supremacists would be totally on board with that.
One has to wonder if what Tribe is really doing is trying to marry Trump’s outspoken position against abortion with the ridiculous notion that Trump is a White Supremacist or that he’s, at the very least, a fan of the group.
Ted Cruz saw the tweet and decided to take his former professor back to school:
1/2 My old con law prof, sadly, being deeply deceptive. Abortion targets in particular minority women. More than 1/2 of African-American babies, tragically, are aborted. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, was a vehement advocate of eugenics. https://t.co/Lx0T7XBLUy https://t.co/PjFR9loFnV
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 11, 2019
2/2 Here’s one particularly nasty quote from Margaret Sanger (1939): “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." https://t.co/LV0YgDqxyb
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 11, 2019
Yes, PLEASE read full context. In 1926, Sanger spoke at a KKK rally in NJ. Her publications include: "Some Moral Aspects of Eugenics" (Jun 1920); "The Purpose of Eugenics" (Dec 1924); "Birth Control & Positive Eugenics" (July 1925) & "Birth Control: The True Eugenics" (Aug 1928). https://t.co/oTDdfH1c96
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 11, 2019
I doubt that Tribe is going to listen to his former student, but he should. Because the student has become the teacher!
Cruz just dropped one last tweet this morning, debunking a photo but pointing to the truth behind it. And even getting a shot in at Ralph Northam:
This particular photo is an Internet fabrication. What is TRUE is that in 1926 Sanger addressed the Women’s Auxiliary of the KKK in Silver Lake, NJ (as she admits in her autobiography). Also, I’m pretty sure that guy in the front row is the guy from Ralph Northam’s yearbook…. https://t.co/lugY9kQim5
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 12, 2019