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The American landscape is littered with fallen statues of notable historical figures tainted with the stench of racism. A notable statue still stands at the Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C., that of Margaret Sanger.
An influential American
Time Magazine named her one of the twenty most influential Americans in history. The Smithsonian says she “fought to achieve civil rights for disenfranchised or marginalized groups.” And yet a group of thirteen legislators wrote the Smithsonian in 2015 asking them to take down her statue. Their reason:
“Ms. Sanger was an avowed advocate of eugenics and the extermination of groups of people she deemed as “undesirables.” Specifically, Ms. Sanger singled out African-Americans, among other minority groups, as deserving to be subjected to such horrific and inhumane treatment.”
By the same token, a group of Black pastors asked the Smithsonian to remove her likeness, because:
“Margaret Sanger was a racist who wanted to end the black population through birth control and abortion.”
Nonetheless, her statue still stands, although cracks in her reputation are emerging. Just today, the New York Times reports that Planned Parenthood of Greater New York is removing their founder’s name, Margaret Sanger, from its Manhattan health clinic. Their spokesperson, Karen Selzer explains:
“The removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthood’s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color.”
So what is Margaret Sanger’s legacy?
Was she primarily an advocate of women’s self-determinism? Or was she primarily an advocate of national breed-improvement through a compelled program of eugenics?
Iowans for LIFE explored her creed in a unique theatrical pieced titled, “A Clash of Creeds.” You can watch her eugenic worldview on display contrasted to that of Ayn Rand’s and Saint Mother Teresa’s, with GK Chesterton as moderator, in the clip above. (Go to IowansforLIFE.org to view the entire performance.)
Ms. Sanger’s creed is succinct:
“Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man’s equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.”
So you can see that the pursuit of women’s self-determination is present in this statement.
Further, Sanger asserts that …
“Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.”
What is eugenics?
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
“Eugenics is the practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations (as by sterilization) to improve the population’s genetic composition.”
Sanger called on Congress to establish a ‘Parliament of Population Directors’ who would “direct and control the population through birth rates and immigration, and direct its distribution over the country according to national needs consistent with taste, fitness and interest of the individuals.”
An abrupt turn
Here, the legacy of Margaret Sanger takes an abrupt turn, for her Parliament would have immense, coercive power:
“They would be empowered to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization, and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
To insure the country against future burdens of maintenance for numerous offspring as may be born to feeble-minded parents, the government would pension all persons with transmissible disease who voluntarily consent to sterilization.
Even more, the whole dysgenic population would have its choice of segregation or sterilization.
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.
By all means there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness, and mental disorders.”
Complicated race relations
The legacy of Margaret Sanger is especially complicated when it comes to her connection with race relations. She spoke to the white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan. She once wrote (commenting on the ‘Negro Project‘ in a letter to Clarence Gamble, Dec. 10, 1939):
“The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to get 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.”
Apologists suggest that this passage was merely “inartfully written.” And yet her legacy has impacted the African-American community disproportionately. In the city where she founded Planned Parenthood, New York, black women are more likely to have an abortion than give birth. Nationally, Blacks represent 12% of the population but 36% of all abortions. According to the Guttmacher Institute, three out of four abortions are performed on women who are poor.
Sanger opposed abortion
The irony is that Sanger opposed abortion:
“I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization.”
So is the legacy of Margaret Sanger primarily about liberating women, or is it about limiting undesirable populations?
Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, suggests the latter in a 2009 interview in the New York Times Magazine:
“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
Evidence supports Ginsberg’s concerns
To support her concern, a letter came to light written by Ron Weddington, one of the attorneys who successfully argued the Roe v Wade case that legalized abortion. Writing to former president Bill Clinton in 1993, he said:
“I don’t think you are going to go very far in reforming the country until we have a better educated, healthier, wealthier population…. Start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country [through abortion]…. There, I’ve said it. It’s what we all know is true, but we only whisper it, because as liberals who believe in individual rights, we view any program which might treat the disadvantaged differently as discriminatory, mean-spirited and…well…so Republican. Our survival depends upon our developing a population where everyone contributes. We don’t need more cannon fodder. We don’t need more parishioners. We don’t need more cheap labor. We don’t need more poor babies.”
To further bolster Justice Ginsberg’s concerns, the popular economics book, “Freakonomics,” stated that abortion was therapeutic to the greater society, because it reduced crime rates in the Black community, that the eugenic effects are measurable. The authors, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, explained why abortion is good, from their perspective:
“Fertility declines for black women are three times greater than for whites (12 percent compared with 4 percent). Given that homicide rates of black youths are roughly nine times higher than those of white youths, racial differences in the fertility effects of abortion are likely to translate into greater homicide reductions.”
So is the legacy of Margaret Sanger more a story of the emancipation of women or a eugenically-driven master plan to suppress the African-American population, the disabled and the imperfect?
Her complicated legacy is in the news. Her admirers and apologists are beginning to get pushback. Will her statue still be standing tomorrow?
[Learn more about Margaret Sanger’s creed. Watch our dynamic theater piece, “A Clash of Creeds,” which uses the actual words of Sanger, Ayn Rand, and Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Click here now.]


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George Porter Jr. has proven himself to be one of the bedrocks that make up the foundation of the New Orleans music scene. While starting out briefly on guitar, George quickly transitioned to bass where he really hit his stride. After some prompting from Art Neville, George became an integral part of the Meters, playing with them from the start until their breakup in 1977. Following the Meters, George remained active on the scene eventually returning to the reformed Meters in 1989. George, with the Meters, were one of the first bands to play New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina at the Jazz and Heritage Festival.
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ASHBURN, Va. -- The lifestyle became a badge of honor, one that Randy Jordan, then an Oakland Raiders assistant coach, wore with pride. Three days into his new gig, however, he realized he was on a pace he could not survive.
Jordan, now the Washington Redskins running backs coach, would arrive no later than 6 a.m. He’d stay until 1:30 a.m. or later. Then he'd repeat it the next day.
"I'll never forget my first three days. I thought I was going to die. I wasn't used to it," Jordan said. "The first three days I was good, and then on the fourth day, I hit a wall and physically got sick."
He was ordered to stay home and had to find a new way to survive. That didn't mean he abandoned the insane hours completely. The days are long. But coaches aren't superhuman, which means they must discover tricks that help them get through the day, especially as the season winds down and the grind takes a toll. As they watch hours of film, sometimes the eyes get droopy.
They resort to tricks used by drivers to stay awake.
"Just not as dangerous," Redskins tight ends coach Wes Phillips said.
Redskins coach Jay Gruden's day starts around 4:45 a.m. and lasts until nearly 9 p.m. He does his film work early because as the day wears on, many visitors enter his office: players, president Bruce Allen, vice president of football operations Doug Williams. But in those quiet moments later in the day, sometimes staying awake becomes difficult -- for Gruden and others.
"That happens a lot," Gruden said of guys nodding off. "When you stay still for so long and when you're in your office with just your remote control for hours at a time."
Here's how coaches survive those difficult periods during the day:
Mondays test all coaches, win or lose, but Mondays after losses can be particularly draining. Jordan arrives around 7 a.m. after perhaps four hours of sleep.
"If I do get six or seven hours, I feel tired," he said. "Your body gets used to a lack of sleep, which isn't good for you."
He grades film and meets with the staff around 1 p.m. to watch more film. Then they gather to discuss personnel. Around 3:30 p.m., he moves on to the next opponent. At night, Jordan will watch the opponent's previous two games to get a feel for how the team calls defenses and focuses on short yardage and goal-line situations. He'll check out what a defense does on first and second down and what personnel groupings they use in various situations. He'll jot down running plays to recommend to offensive line coach Bill Callahan, who's in charge of the run game.
Jordan said he usually has a game going on ESPN, with the sound down, and will slip on headphones. Drake and James Taylor then get him through the lull.
"I'm a big James Taylor fan, one of the best songwriters ever," Jordan said. "Of course, 'In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the Sunshine?' Sweet Baby James. I'm listening to all his stuff, and I'm banging out tape. I'm lit up. Sometimes it gets that way. You get four or five songs in you, and you're just like, 'Bang, oh, got that done.'"
The struggle is real for Phillips, especially on Tuesdays. He arrives at 6 a.m. and leaves around midnight. To prepare for an opponent, he watches five games and breaks them down, looking at defensive schemes and whittling it down to techniques used by certain players. He occasionally works on red zone film.
"Sometimes you get into that film mode where you're watching, and then all of a sudden, you're three or four plays farther down than you thought you were," Phillips said, "and then you snap out of it."
One solution: a stand-up desk. Three years ago, Phillips purchased one for his office for health reasons. There are other ways he tries to maintain energy -- walks, breaks in the cafeteria -- but when he knows he must grind in the office, the desk helps.
"We're in the office a lot and sitting," he said. "I find I have more energy when I stand. You can stretch a little bit."
He uses a slant board at times so he can stretch his calf muscles, or he uses a ball to roll under his feet while standing.
"All that sitting you do, and posture-wise, you get crunched over," Phillips said, "and it doesn't feel good."
Sour Patch Kids
The week before the Thanksgiving Day game against the New York Giants was particularly bad for Washington's defensive quality-control coach, Cannon Matthews. He spent a couple hours in the office after arriving back from New Orleans the Sunday before. The next day, he was there from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. On Tuesday, it was from 7 a.m. until midnight.
"You're like a zombie watching enough film to where your eyes are crisscrossing," he said. "When you hit 5 o'clock, you have to get your second wind."
His two go-to options: get up and walk around, or dig into his bag of Sour Patch Kids. Sometimes he'll drink a Diet Dr. Pepper, but for the most part, the Kids win.
"Anytime I feel myself lagging, I keep a bag of those in my desk drawer," he said.
His favorite color? Red.
"But the blue is creeping up there,” he said.
The amazing part? He has had one cavity in his life.
One coach didn't want to divulge his biggest secret: He'll sometimes dip chewing tobacco to help stay sharp and awake. He started doing it in college.
"Meetings were so long," he said. "That was the only thing that kept me awake."
Others do it as well.
"I've been trying to quit that for a long time, but that definitely helps for whatever reason," Phillips said, "whether psychologically helping you stay awake or just the act of doing something: chewing gum, spitting."
Redskins secondary coach Torrian Gray works out on a daily basis, sometimes before his day gets started and other times at lunch.
"That probably makes me more fatigued [later]," Gray said. "But you never think about the fatigue. You know you're tired, but you don't think about it because we're trying to find the riddle to the puzzle of the week. It's not what we know. It's what we get the players to know and to understand. Then we have to put it in organized fashion."
Gray's solution to sustain his energy and combat any drowsiness is a favorite of many coaches: Diet Coke. Coffee is clearly another favorite; Phillips has a machine in his office. After opening a soda, Gray will slip on headphones, listen to either country music or rap and get to work.
"Tons of Diet Coke," he said. "I probably overdo it -- five or six a day. That's me cutting it back. ... But I kind of embrace the grind, so it was never a problem. I never had a problem grinding and working hard. That's my personality."
Eating right also plays a factor. Jordan said he tries to avoid snacks, though he'll grab some trail mix in the cafeteria or some peanuts from Gray's office.
"I try to load up on Vitamin C, take supplements," Jordan said. "But it's part of the process. You just grind through it."

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This comes a day after the J&K government sacked its eleven employees on charges of being involved in anti-India activities
SRINAGAR: National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday conducted raids at multiple locations across Kashmir Valley and arrested six persons including head of an Islamic seminary in connection with a ‘jihadi terrorism’ case.
The agency said that the case was registered by it on June 29 this year under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 in connection with the “conspiracy of the ISIS (Islamic State) to radicalize and recruit impressionable youth in the country to wage violent jihad against the Indian state.”
This comes a day after the J&K government sacked its eleven employees including two sons of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Muhammad Yusuf Shah alias Syed Salahuddin on charges of being involved in anti-India activities. The Hizb chief's sons were fired based on the investigations done by the NIA in an alleged terror funding case, the government had said.
The NIA sources said that its teams assisted by J&K police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) raided 'Siraj-ul- Uloom’ seminary in Srinagar's Dalal Mohalla, Nawab Bazaar area and seized some office records and a laptop and also took its chairman Adnaan Ahmad Nadvi into custody. The institution is reportedly affiliated with an Islamic seminary of Uttar Pradesh. Soon raids were conducted in Pushroo, Sunsooma, and Achabal villages of Anantnag and five persons identified as Javaid Ahamad Mir, Umar Bhat, Ovais Ahmad Bhat, Tanveer Ahmad Bhat and Zeeshan Ameen Malik were detained.
The NIA in a statement here said the searches were conducted at seven locations in Anantnag and Srinagar districts in “ISIS voice of Hind case” registered by it in New Delhi under sections 124A, 153A, and 153 B of IPC and sections 17, 18, 18B, 38, 39 and 40 of UA(P) Act 1967.
“In order to execute its nefarious plan, an organized campaign has been launched over the cyber space which is supplemented by on ground (militant) financing activities,” it said.
The statement read, “ISIS operating from various conflict zones along with ISIS cadres in India, by assuming pseudo- online identities, have created a network wherein ISIS related propaganda material is disseminated for radicalizing and recruiting members to the fold of ISIS.” It added, “In this connection an India-centric online propaganda magazine ‘the Voice of Hind’ (VOH) is published on monthly basis with an aim to incite and radicalize impressionable youth by projecting a skewed narrative of imagined injustices in India to arouse a feeling of alienation and communal hatred.”
The NIA claimed that the searches led to recovery and seizure of a large number of “incriminating documents and digital devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptop, hard disks and T-Shirts having ISIS logo.”

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Image shows the stone built village school in Breary Lane. It was built in 1873 at the instigation of the Lady of the Manor, Miss Dawson. The schoolmaster Mr. Wood, along with his wife, received a salary of £130 per annum and books and slates were purchased at a cost of £11 16s 2d (£11 81p). There were between 60 and 70 pupils, both boys and girls, attending the school from a population of 389 in the village. The village school was undenominational and was not to be used as a Sunday School or for religious meetings. There was a focus on Adult Education and classes were held there for this purpose in the evenings. The West Riding County Council took over the building in 1921 and the school was converted to a youth club at a cost of £8,000. In 1961 the school moved to new premises in Tredgold Crescent. In 1992 Leeds City Council released the former school for development and it has since been converted to apartments, while retaining the original character of the nineteenth century building.
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Everyone who keeps backyard chickens needs to ensure keeping their birds safe from predators. Wild animals like raccoons, weasels, and even snakes can easily get inside coops and harm your birds.
If you keep a garden with vegetables and fruits, then your free-ranging birds are bound to get tempted and feast on your produce.
To avoid these issues, you must use a chicken wire fence. A chicken wire fence helps keep your birds away from your produce and also prevents harmful predators from getting inside the coop.
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The Best Chicken Wire Fences
1. YARDGARD Chicken Wire Fence
YARDGARD fences are available in different sizes; it is galvanized for long-lasting rust protection.
The chicken wire fence is ideal for residential and commercial use and can be used for restricting rabbits and chickens.
People with a backyard garden can also use this sturdy wire to support their plants, prevent wild animals, minimize soil erosion, and confine their compost pile.
You can also use the wire for keeping a roof-less portable chicken coop or dog kennels covered.
- YARDGARD wire is maneuverable, lightweight, easy to install, and yet sturdy
- It easily keeps your mulched flower beds safe from free-ranging chickens: no more mulch in the coop or the yard
- Value for money
- Has pointy edges which could harm animals
- Might not keep out larger animals, animals with sharp teeth, or digging animals like weasels.
2. Amagabeli Garden Home Hardware Cloth Galvanized Welded Cage
Amagabeli hardware cloth is galvanized for added strength and rust protection.
This keeps chickens and rabbits safe from raccoons and other animals. At the same time, the wire can be cut with sturdy scissors to mold and shape as needed.
Amagabeli wire is even used in large engineering projects.
- Best-selling chicken wire with hundreds of positive reviews
- The versatile wire can be used around a chicken coop, chicken run, for protecting raised garden beds, and to keep dogs from escaping and wild animals from entering into the yard
- This high-quality wire is easy to cut, mold, and shape
- It is also sturdy and extremely durable
- Tends to rust after a few days
- Uneven spacing
- Sharp corners cut hands.
3. GoPlus Hardware Cloth Wire Fence
GoPlus hardware cloth is double galvanized and zinc-coated.
This ensures maximum strength, rust protection, durability, and corrosion resistance.
At the same time, the metal is soft enough to roll easily and cut through. Use it to protect your animals and plants. It is especially beneficial for keeping snakes out of chicken coops.
- Easy to cut through and shape as per your needs; yet very sturdy
- Can be held together with nail staplers
- Versatile enough for use on dog kennels and poultry pens
- Value for money
- Prone to rusting after a few years.
- Slightly heavier gauge wire makes it difficult to work with.
4. MTB Supply Galvanized Hexagonal Poultry Net
MTB supply galvanized poultry net is lightweight and sturdy.
At the same time, being made from very high-quality, sturdy material, it ensures keeping your chicken safe from predators.
Apart from livestock confinement, you can also use it for making garden fences or preventing your dogs from escaping.
- Simple and convenient, easy to use
- Sturdy and durable
- Versatile for multiple garden and backyard uses
- The best-selling chicken wire that offers value for money
- Poor packaging and rolling, which makes it extremely difficult to unwind and unroll the wire
- The big holes might not prevent smaller animals from coming in or escaping out.
5. Tenax Hex Poultry Fence
Tenax poultry fence is perfect for backyard cages and coops.
It comes in 4 different sizes, and each pack can contain 2, 3, or 4 wires.
The product is known to have a life expectancy of 3-5 years.
- Easy to use and install
- Sturdy and durable; unlike other fences, it is made using sturdy plastic that is free from rusting and corrosion.
- Value for money
- The fence has small hexes that keep the tiny chicks safe and prevents them from escaping.
- It can be easily secure with zip ties. Does not need any additional hardware
- Attractive black colored chicken fence wire
- The plastic wire can be easily chewed through by animals with sharp teeth
- The product does not come with zip ties; you need to purchase them separately.
6. Best Choice Products Multipurpose Galvanized Chicken Wire
Best Choice Products galvanized steel chicken fence wire is useful for keeping out snakes, raccoons, and other animals from getting inside your coop.
You can also shape it as a tree guard. It is durable, easy to use, easy to install, and will surely guarantee you peace of mind.
- Well built wire; sturdy and durable
- One of the top-rated, best-selling wires on top retail sites
- Causes punctures and wounds while cutting it
- Soft enough for sharp teeth to cut through.
7. Easy Gardener Chicken Wire
Easy Gardener tough chicken wire fencing is easier to set up than most chicken wires available in the market.
It helps keep chickens safe from predators, and you can also use it around your garden to keep the birds from destroying your produce.
- Sturdy and durable; easily keeps chicken and poultry birds safe and secure.
- Easy to install
- UV treated fence or long-lasting durability
- Lightweight yet sturdy enough to prevent corrosion and rust
- Can easily be attached to trees and posts
- Economical and value for money
- While it is meant to protect your yard from deer menace, some users reported that larger deer with antlers could easily tear the net. Some deer also jumped over the 7-foot fence.
Types of Chicken Wire Fences
There are several options before you when it comes to selecting a chicken wire fence. You could either use hardware cloth or go in for wire poultry fences.
Both options come with their pros and cons.
A hardware cloth, like its name indicates, is a fine mesh of wire made using galvanized steel or zinc.
It has much smaller-gauge compared to traditional chicken wire fences and is more convenient if you have smaller birds or chicks.
Since it is made using galvanized steel or zinc, it is protected from corrosion and rust.
Compared to traditional chicken wire fences, hardware cloth does a much better job of protecting the chickens. You can use galvanized ½ or ¼ inch hardware cloth for protecting your birds.
Chicken wire fences
You will find many products under the broad term of chicken wire fences.
These are designed with a larger gauge compared to hardware cloth.
Animals like weasels and raccoons can easily gnaw their way in through these fences. If you are looking for the best method of protecting your birds, then it is best to opt for a hardware mesh.
You can also use chicken wire fences made of metal or plastic around your gardens and raised garden beds to keep your hens from devouring your crops.
Chicken wire fences can also be used for covering roofless dog houses, kennels, and open-design portable chicken coops.
What to Look for When Buying a Chicken Wire Fence
Measure the area you want to enclose. Then select the wire accordingly.
Make sure that your birds cannot escape from underneath the fence, nor should they be able to fly over the fence.
The same goes for predators; select a size that is resistant to raccoons, weasels, and snakes. A good size is 7 feet by 100 feet.
Most poultry birds cannot fly more than a few feet in the air, so a 7 to 8-foot tall fence should be good enough.
Also, check the size of the wire gauge gaps. If the gap is too large, baby chicks and smaller birds can easily escape through it. So go for fine meshes as far as possible.
Sturdiness and material
The material is one of the most important factors to consider when selecting a chicken wire fence.
Predators should not be able to gnaw through it. Some fences are made using flimsy plastic, and they do not stand a chance against weasels, wild dogs, and even deer antlers.
Rabbits with sharp teeth can also gnaw through and escape from plastic fences. If you are trying to keep cats and dogs from escaping, plastic wires might be completely useless.
Galvanized steel or zinc mesh fences are better in this aspect as they are tougher to gnaw through, sturdier, and difficult to rip apart.
The choice of the material of your chicken wire fence depends entirely on your needs.
If you only wish to keep chickens away from your produce, then go in for a plastic fence. Plastic fences are often UV protected, and that keeps them durable and sturdy for years to come.
Such fences usually last for years as long as there are no animals gnawing through them.
If, however, you are trying to keep rabbits, weasels, deer, or other animals with sharp horns or teeth away from your garden, then it is better to go for galvanized metal (zinc or steel) fences. These are resistant to tears, cuts, and animal teeth. They are also protected from corrosion and rust.
Plastic fences are easier to unroll and install; metal fences get entangled and are difficult to unroll.
In most cases, both types of fences are easy to hook to posts or trees, although some may need additional hardware like zip ties for installation.
Chicken wire fences work in two ways; they protect predators from harming your poultry fowl, and they also prevent your birds from escaping or going where they aren’t supposed to go (like in your garden beds!).
We hope these reviews of chicken wire fences help you make the right selection.