Eugenics

Dear Readers(if you already exist),
    After the fiasco of my initial post, in which I rambled about posting, some vague coverage of an event I knew of through only a single source, and a stumbled upon relic of my recent past, I would like to provide a more coherent, structured post for you today.
    One thing which has piqued my interest today is the Republican party in America(where I reside, which I emphasis in order to provide a sense of scope). However, the wealth of information regarding those stepping forward as Presidential candidates and what we can learn from their first debate is far more than I'm prepared to dissect and process without another day of time with which to research it, so that post will come sometime in the days to come.
   Instead, I'd like to focus on a different story that I found, once again on BBC news. The article, which can be found here,   discusses reparations being voted on the in the state of North Carolina to those citizens who were sterilized as part of the state's eugenics program.
   I knew that the United States had eugenics as a belief, at least in the minority, at one stage of it's existence, hardly surprising considering her history, but I had not realized that at least 32 states had at one time laws allowing for the sterilization of those considered ill-fit for breeding, namely the "feeble-minded", though also including(in some states) the sexually deviant, those with criminal tendencies, or even orphans, the homeless, and anyone else that could become, or already was, a burden to the state. Over the course of the programs, which didn't end until the 1970's approximately 60,000 Americans were sterilized.
   This shocked me for too reasons. The first, was that the event happened to begin with. Forced sterilization is a horrible thing to do to a person, especially a mortal that requires reproduction to continue their own existence and bloodline. But perhaps more tragic and unsettling than the event's occurrence, is that I didn't already know about it. I, perhaps cockily, consider myself well-informed. So if even I did not know of this crime, who does? And if a crime is not known, is that not more dangerous and evil than a crime that is discovered and dealt with?
   If you want to research this topic yourself, the BBC article is a good place to start, as is looking up the Supreme Court Case Buck vs Bell, which upheld the forced sterilization for eugenic purposes.

 On a lighter note...Bunny!!!