Comments on: Louisiana State Senator Worries That There Will Soon Be Too Many Black People, Film At 11

By: rissa86

rissa86 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:54:24 +0000

Real Talk,
We have known since the 60′s that welfare destroys the American family. So don’t be mad cuz the shit works. How about putting money into programs that educate people about their bodies and enrich the lives of young women( statics show girls involved in extra circulars or who have good grades are less likely to get pregnant. Also there is a correlation between higher education and giving birth later in life, with less children.)

By: Felicia

Felicia — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:47:55 +0000

Don’t shoot me please! I am an African-American female in Texas. Let’s be real here. I don’t agree with what Rep. LaBruzzo is saying at all. However, there needs to be personal responsibility. Why would you have unprotected sex, knowing full well that you do not have the means to support a child in the first place? Then say “Woe is me, I’m poor, so you must accomidate me?” And that goes for any race. Some of these young ladies are putting the cart before the horse. You get the husband first,then the kids. Not the kids,then HOPE he will marry you, then use welfare as a failsafe to help you take care of the children. If you can’t afford them, you shouldn’t have them. I know it’s not a perfect worldand people make mistakes. But with all the sex education and options available, this is still occuring WAY too much. You’d have ti literaly be under a rock on a deserted island to not be a ware that having unprotected sex can lead to an unplanned pregnancy.And again, don’t shoot me for saying this either. A lot of the expense is coming from illegal immigrants that rush to have their children on US soil to get benifits. As a border state resident and a medical professional, the hospitals are clogged with illegal Latinas having babies. Welfare is for people that truly need a helping hand. But it has become a lifestyle to some people that actually beleive that this is normal. If we as Americans think that this behavior is OK, then somebody has to pay for it! Just my two cents, let me live.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:10:04 +0000

“Hey now, no bashing on Southern people! You can find inbred crazy people everywhere on earth.”

Thanks for pointing that out, ABW. Being from the South (Louisiana) myself, I appreciate your rebuking that stereotype. This is the first I’ve heard about this, it’s disgusting.

By: abw

abw — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:27:15 +0000

It goes without saying that dude is racist and classist as ****! But with that said, nothing is stopping affluent people from having kids to offset the rate! Some of the younger upwardly mobile adults that are having kids are having families with six and seven kids anyway! Why not the sweat over this! But even if all of this was or wasn’t the case, it light of the gradual phasing out of social security, medicare, and other safety nets-it would behoove folks to have more kids-minorities/POC especially. Although we would have to cut down on the excessive ways we(as a group and other folks) produce and consume resources to keep us from depleted the earth of resources!

By: NancyP

NancyP — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:04:59 +0000

Making sterilization available is good. Dangling substantial rewards in front of poor women is bad. Forbidding businesses from firing workers for taking time off to go get a voluntary sterilization or preventive care procedure is a good thing. Providing an emergency day-care voucher and transportation vouchers, medibus arrangement, whatever – good. Providing voucher for one day’s wages (or even jury duty rates) for the poorest women would help make the decision money-neutral.

I would support anything that made the decision free of constraints in either direction. Sometimes small things get in the way of accessing medical care (of any kind, but especially of preventive care). Poor women should be able to access whatever birth control method they would like to use – or to refuse.

By: Marysia

Marysia — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:01:27 +0000

I have written at

http://nonviolentchoice.blogspot.com/2008/10/eugenics-alive-and-still-kickingthe.html

about how this not only *sounds* like eugenics–it is.

By: Taja Lindley

Taja Lindley — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:25:26 +0000

forgot to add that this sounds a lot like the private org CRACK (Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity) who paid drug addicted women of childbearing age cash to get sterilized. rather than invest that money into treatment and prevention programs, they were more concerned about reproduction

their new name: project prevention

their tactic: the same as above

By: Taja Lindley

Taja Lindley — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:16:34 +0000

i know i’m late in responding but….

offering financial incentives to poor people for tubal ligation sterilization is not offering a “choice” and participation isn’t “voluntary”…choice is an unequal matter when you use money as a carrot stick for the poor

…here we are, once again in american history, using women’s reproductive capacity as a scapegoat for social problems, governmental failures, and reluctance to come up with sound solutions and programs. generational poverty is an issue but sterilization is hardly the answer…

By: Elena Perez

Elena Perez — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:48:20 +0000

I linked to this as part of a post on “Gender, Race, and the Bailout”
http://www.canow.org/canoworg/2008/09/gender-race-and.html

By: TheVixenne

TheVixenne — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:41:01 +0000

True, but the South seems to have more than their fair share! Frankly, they’ve just never gotten over that slavery thing.