NFL tight end Benjamin Watson: Planned Parenthood "founded to exterminate blacks"

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/benjamin-watson-planned-parenthood-founded-to-exterminate-blacks/ar-BBvk45r

Ravens tight end Benjamin Watson has not hesitated to speak out on the state of race relations in the United States, but he's drawing both criticism and praise for claiming that Planned Parenthood was created to "exterminate blacks" and that "it's working."

In an interview with the Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center, Watson, a devout Christian, said that he's puzzled by why so many blacks support Planned Parenthood.

"I do know that blacks kind of represent a large portion of the abortions, and I do know that honestly the whole idea with Planned Parenthood and (group founder Margaret) Sanger in the past was to exterminate blacks, and it’s kind of ironic that it’s working," Watson said.

"We (as minorities) support candidates, and overwhelmingly support the idea of having Planned Parenthood and the like, and yet, that is why she created it. We are buying it hook, line, and sinker, like it’s a great thing. It’s just amazing to me and abortion saddens me, period, but it seems to be something that is really pushed on minorities and provided to minorities especially as something that they should do.

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Too many shots to the head I guess.

[mountain grammy]

1. Someone needs to tell this young man

that as soon as the government can force a woman to give birth, the government can force a woman to terminate that birth. Of course, he will never have an unwanted pregnancy.

[riversedge]

2. This is the person that Trump will get to vote for him.

[rufus dog]

3. Shouldn't Tight Ends be called Wide Ends

And Wide Receivers be Tight Receivers?

Sorry, watching too much of the Olympics.

[TipTok]

4. There's a difference between the personal views of one of the founders...

... And the program as it exists today.

[loyalsister]

7. Eugenics history in the US is complicated

Margaret Sanger, Alexander Graham Bell, and Helen Keller were all supporters. There were at least 2 different camps of supporters who fell for faulty interpretations of genetics and evolution. People who sincerely wanted to prevent suffering were joined with white suprmacists and USAers Hitler admired.

Margaret Sanger was on the edge, but that doesn't negate the good work she did that continues to this day. People have been trying to misrepresent her on this issue for a long time.

[longship]

5. NFL tight end Benjamin Watson: Religious ideologue. nt

[Initech]

6. Auditioning for Infowars, are we?

[JI7]

8. he is a religious fool . he said something about the reason innocent black males were killed is

because of sin and how christianity will help to stop it .

[Skittles]

9. idiot

[LuvNewcastle]

10. I've heard Mike Huckabee say

the same thing. Anything to suppress black voter turnout for Democrats. I guess they think blacks and other minorities are all fucking stupid.

[Rustyeye77]

11. How's that CTE going?

[RandiFan1290]

13. David Duke of the KKK is a republicon

He has endorsed trump.

[grubbs]

14. I would normally say that the young man

Has a right to his opinion and deserves a fair hearing, but he is letting himself be used as a rw shill. Like most reps give a crap what a black man has to say.

Besides, he is a Raven. Hell with him. Go Steelers!

[dembotoz]

15. playing without a helmet?

was said about the last republican i could tolerate Mr Ford....seems more true for this guy

[Johonny]

16. Benjamin Watson, not a fan-sad.

[Iggo]

17. Aw. There, there, Sportsball Man.

[kentuck]

18. I've seen this on Facebook, also

http://www.snopes.com/margaret-sanger-weeds/

[Blue_Tires]

19. Just an old myth that got planted in the black community

back in the 90s...

Sad to see it still being circulated

[Recursion]

21. Ah, you beat me to it

I remember first hearing it in the context of the Million Man March, though it was probably current among 5 percenters, etc., for a while before that.

[Recursion]

20. This gets a lot of mileage in some black activist circles

(Just saying, it's wrong, but not some crazy thing a single individual is spouting)