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Payments Start For N.C. Eugenics Victims, But Many Won't Qualify

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Debra Blackmon (left) was sterilized by court order in 1972, at age 14. With help from her niece, Latoya Adams (right), she's fighting to be part of the state's compensation program. Eric Mennel/WUNC hide caption

Debra Blackmon (left) was sterilized by court order in 1972, at age 14. With help from her niece, Latoya Adams (right), she's fighting to be part of the state's compensation program.

Debra Blackmon was about to turn 14 in January 1972, when two social workers came to her home.

Court and medical documents offer some details about what happened that day. Blackmon was "severely retarded," they note, and had "psychic problems" that made her difficult to manage during menstruation.

Her parents were counseled during the visit, and it was deemed in Blackmon's best interest that she be sterilized.

Blackmon is among the more than 7,000 people in North Carolina many poor, many African-American, many disabled who were sterilized between 1929 and 1976 in one of the country's most aggressive eugenics programs.

North Carolina passed a law to compensate victims of the state-run program last year. This week, the state sent out the first checks to qualified applicants. But Blackmon, like many others who are fighting for restitution, is not among them.

Blackmon, now 56, has a hard time with the details of that day in 1972 but she does remember a few things from her trip to Charlotte Memorial Hospital. "My daddy said, 'Don't hurt this baby.' And he was crying," she recalls.

Latoya Adams, Blackmon's niece, says "we didn't find out until recently the extent exactly what all they did to her."

Adams grew up knowing her aunt had been sterilized. So, after the compensation law passed, she went looking for documentation and came back with a mother lode: a court order, names of social workers and the entire procedure, outlined from pre-op to discharge.

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Eugenics Board victim receives $20,000 check

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Elnora Mills, seem here in her Leland, home on Thursday, August 21, 2014, is one of the victims of the state's former Eugenics Board program.

N.C. Eugenics Board victim Elnora Mills received a $20,000 check Thursday as promised by the state.

"It helps me, but they can only do so much," the Leland resident said. "It's better than nothing, but I'm still mad with what they did to me."

Mills, 63, is one of about 220 statewide who received checks as reparation for the involuntary sterilizations performed by the state board and social services departments from 1929 to 1974.

A second check for an undetermined amount is expected to be sent out sometime next year, Mills said. A $10 million pot was set aside for victims of the program by state legislators in June 2013.

The eugenics program sterilized nearly 7,600 men and women during the 45 years it was in existence. Mills was sterilized when she was 16 and didn't know she couldn't have kids until 1969 when she was married to her husband. She was notified at the time that, during an appendix surgery in 1967, doctors had also removed her reproductive organs because the state saw her as unfit to have children.

Over the years, Mills said, she has found comfort in her husband and her dogs. And for now, she is saving the money.

"I am paying bills, and my husband is sick so I am putting the money away just in case," she said. "Him and my dogs are the only thing I got."

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Sarah Palin compared climate change to eugenics

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Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Sarah Palin has spoken out against the science behind man-made climate change since she was a vice presidential hopeful in 2008, and now she's comparing the science behind it to eugenics.

"I'm not a denier. I don't doubt that climate change exists," Palin says in the video she posted to the Sarah Palin Channel. "No one has proven that these changes are caused by anything done by human beings via greenhouse gases. There's no convincing scientific evidence for man-made climate change."

"Climate change is to this century what eugenics was to the last century. It's hysteria and a lot of it's junk science. And when it's as discredited as eugenics, you know a lot of people are going to look very foolish and heartless," Palin said.

Palin may not believe climate change was caused by humans, but she has a record of fighting climate change in the past. As a governor, she created a special group to combat climate change issues like sea level rise, loss of sea ice and erosion.

Though some disagree with the science behind it, the Pentagon says climate change is a serious threat to national security.

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Sarah Palin: Climate change is this centurys eugenics

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More people are waking up to the global warming con, saysSarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and your current crazy friend spreading conspiracy theories on Facebook.

The claim comes in a new video, which Palin posted to her Facebook page Monday. It begins with blah, standard-fare climate denial (and denial of being a climate denier): No convincing scientific evidence, the climate has always been changing, etc., etc. Not even worth mentioning. Still probably better off ignored, were it not for Palins outrageous claim that the man-made climate change con job is comparable to eugenics. In her words:

Climate change is to this century what eugenics was to the last century. Its hysteria and a lot of its junk science. And when its as discredited as eugenics, you know a lot of people are going to look very foolish and heartless.

Thats right. Climate change, which 97 percent of climate scientists agree is happening as the result of human activity, is just like eugenics, the racist, Nazi-affiliated, pseudo-scientific 20th century movement that even in its day, many people saw [as] a dubious discipline, riddled with inconsistencies.

The latest voice of reason Palin cites on all this isWeather Channel co-founder John Coleman, who, in fact, has been using his perceived prestige (the man is not a climate scientist) to spread the idea that climate change is a scam since 2007. Like Palin, presumably, Coleman hasbemoaned the difficulty of getting the media to pay attention to his fringe claims (although last night he got Fox News Megyn Kelly to take the bait).

The tragedy with this kind of thinking, of course, is that while in Palins world, it will be great fun to see discredited latte liberals looking all foolish and heartless, no ones going to be gloating when climate change wreaks (even more) havoc in Alaska. But Palin, who despite all evidence to the contrary, really should know better, will bear responsibility for impeding the action needed to protect against that eventuality.

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First payments issued to NC eugenics victims

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By Matthew Burns

Raleigh, N.C. Payments went out Monday to 220 people who were sterilized under North Carolina's erstwhile eugenics program.

Today is a day of reconciliation and healing, Gov. Pat McCrory said in a statement. "While no amount of money could undo the wrong that was done to these victims, I hope these payments bring some solace in their acknowledgment that the actions of the Eugenics Board were wrong. This is a new day for us all and brings us nearer to closing one of North Carolinas darkest chapters.

Lawmakers last year set aside $10 million in the state budget to provide compensation to victims of the eugenics program, which ran between 1929 and 1974.

The state Office for Justice of Sterilization Victims received 780 claim forms from potential victims by the June 30 deadline to apply for compensation. By early August, the state Industrial Commission, which handles all tort claims against the state and is responsible for determining whether a claimant is eligible for compensation, had approved about 180 of the applications for payment.

Those denied compensation can supply more medical information and go through several rounds of appeals with the Industrial Commission and the state Court of Appeals to obtain payment.

As many as 1,800 sterilization victims may still be alive, officials have said. Families of victims who died before June 30, 2013, aren't eligible for compensation.

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Eugenics, Information about Eugenics – Internet FAQ …

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Eugenics is a scheme for improving the human race by controlling reproduction. The practice of eugenics reached its height in the period between the latenineteenth century and World War II, when German Nazis carried eugenic principles to the extremes of mass sterilization and genocide. Different forms of eugenics have been practiced around the world and are currently in effect in the People's Republic of China, where reproduction is strictly limited. With the advent of medical research such as the Human Genome Project, society is still trying to resolve the ethical issues raised by eugenic theories.

The general concept of eugenics is first mentioned in Greek records dating back to 368 BC. Plato and Aristotle both refer to the city state's need for healthy citizens to form an elite ruling class and army. In this earliest blueprint for eugenics, men and women were encouraged to reproduce when they were at the peak of their physical and mental powers, in order to conceive the healthiest and most intelligent children. This underlying principle of striving for an ideal society through selective breeding is one that has motivated eugenicists throughout history.

The term eugenics, which from its Greek roots means "good in birth," was coined by Francis Galton in 1883. A wealthy cousin of Charles Darwin, Galton believed society's sympathy for the weak prevented proper evolution. The Industrial Revolution of the late nineteenth century brought with it a fascination with measurement and statistics. In this climate, Darwin proposed his theory ofthe survival of the fittest, and Galton advocated a form of selection that restricted undesirable people from reproducing. Eugenicists and Social Darwinists believed in the idea of superiority of one "race" over another. Invariably, proponents of eugenics saw their own class and race as most deserving of propagation.

The theory of eugenics was very popular with intellectuals and academics suchas H.G. Wells, the young Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Alexander Graham Bell, John Maynard Keynes, Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge.

Galton believed intelligence and other admired traits were inherited apart from environmental influence. With a determination to maximize brilliance and prevent "feeblemindedness," Galton encouraged "good" marriages that would produce highly intelligent males and ultimately assure the stock of the next generation.

Galton's presentation of eugenics came on the heels of Charles Darwin's 1859book, The Origin of Species. Evolutionary theory took precedence as the human race was divided into the "fit" and "unfit," and eugenics became thescientific community's calling as it promoted ways in which, according to Galton, "social control may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations whether physically or mentally." Darwin quoted Galton repeatedly inhis next book, The Descent of Man. Galton and Darwin agreed that intelligence, courage, and good and bad moods were influenced by family upbringing, while features such as mental illness tended to be inherited.

Social Darwinists saw medical care as giving the "weak" an increased abilityto survive, instead of allowing nature to take its course and eliminate defective people. In Germany, there was a growing fear that medical intervention and welfare policies were enabling weak and impoverished citizens to survive and sap the country's resources. German Social Darwinist Alfred Ploetz introduced the term "racial hygiene" and criticized those who helped the weak survive. Ploetz popularized the argument that racial hygiene benefited all people.

Support for eugenics and racial hygiene increased with the encouragement of Margaret Sanger in the United States. As a leader in the movement for global birth control, Sanger declared, "More children from the fit, less from the unfit-that is the chief issue of birth control," a theory that was readily accepted by the community during this period. Eugenicists began to influence public concern that society was afflicted by the "unfit," and they demanded government action. By 1912, 34 states had passed laws that denied the insane the right to marry, nine states restricted marriage of epileptics, and 15 banned mentally retarded people from marrying one other. Legislatures continued to bemotivated by economic and social considerations and argued that "feebleminded" citizens should not be given the chance to pass undesirable traits on to their children.

Sterilization laws were most popular in the Atlantic region, the Midwest, andCalifornia, with California carrying out, by 1933, more eugenic sterilizations than the rest of the United States combined. In Canada, sterilization efforts were most popular in British Columbia and Alberta. The North American laws focused on the inmates of state institutions for the mentally handicapped and mentally ill. Since wealthier families could afford private care for theirrelatives with mental handicaps and mental illness, the laws tended to discriminate against the poor. Figures gathered from California records show thatbased on their representation in the state's population, African Americans and foreign immigrants were subjected to sterilization at double the rate of other Californians. However, most states did not enforce sterilization laws, and more than a third of American states never passed such laws.

Despite the popularity of eugenic theories, there were opponents, including another of Darwin's cousins, Josiah Wedgewood, who fought to prevent eugenicslaws from being passed before the first world war. Great Britain passed the Mental Deficiency Act in 1913, which authorized eugenic sterilization, over the objections of civil libertarians. Roman Catholics opposed sterilization onreligious grounds, and in North America, Catholics had political grounds as well, as many immigrants were Catholic.

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