Comments on: Remembering Dr. King http://thecurvature.com/2008/01/21/remembering-dr-king/ Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jovan byars http://thecurvature.com/2008/01/21/remembering-dr-king/#comment-3157 jovan byars Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:36:36 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/2008/01/21/remembering-dr-king/#comment-3157 The Rev. Dr. King received the Margaret Sanger award in 1966. I looked this up a few years back, so I remember that like I remember the back of my hand. The Rev. Dr. King received the Margaret Sanger award in 1966. I looked this up a few years back, so I remember that like I remember the back of my hand.

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]]> By: Paul http://thecurvature.com/2008/01/21/remembering-dr-king/#comment-3148 Paul Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:24:05 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/2008/01/21/remembering-dr-king/#comment-3148 I think that Sanger shows how even "decent" people (her good work with PP) are products of the time and culture in which they live. Racist and eugenic beliefs were common back then even among "decent people". It would be easy to paint Sanger and others as crude one-dimensional villains but that ignores the context of the world in which they lived. Sadly, as with Dr. King, people don't want the complexities of real history, they want "Hollywood history" in which the heroes are white and pure and the villains are dark and evil with none of the shades of grey of reality. I think that Sanger shows how even “decent” people (her good work with PP) are products of the time and culture in which they live.

Racist and eugenic beliefs were common back then even among “decent people”. It would be easy to paint Sanger and others as crude one-dimensional villains but that ignores the context of the world in which they lived.

Sadly, as with Dr. King, people don’t want the complexities of real history, they want “Hollywood history” in which the heroes are white and pure and the villains are dark and evil with none of the shades of grey of reality.

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