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Maafa 21
''Maafa 21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America'' is an anti-abortion documentary film made in 2009 by pro-life activist Mark Crutcher to turn African Americans against Planned Parenthood. The film, which has been enthusiastically received by anti-abortion activists, argues that the modern-day prevalence of abortion among African Americans is rooted in an attempted genocide or ''maafa'' of black people. Considered propaganda by journalist Michelle Goldberg and historian Esther Katz, the film fits into a pro-life advertising campaign aimed at African Americans, to argue against abortion and birth control.〔
The film repeats elements of an American conspiracy theory called black genocide, using many of the same arguments as black separatists such as the Black Panther Party in the early 1970s.〔〔〔〔〔 It misuses statistics to induce in the viewer a fear of birth control and abortion.〔〔 The film alleges that the eugenics movement targeted African Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries, that this was the basis for the creation of the American Birth Control League (now Planned Parenthood) by Margaret Sanger, and that this kind of race genocide continued in the form of the abortion-rights movement of the 20th and 21st centuries. The film puts forward the idea that Sanger was a racist who worked to reduce the population of blacks, and that Planned Parenthood is continuing this program.〔 Sanger is implicated as an ally of Nazism and Adolf Hitler.〔〔
Critics of the film have countered many points made by the film, including how Sanger was not racist, how the eugenics movement in the US was not very concerned with African Americans, how blacks were largely in favor of birth control, and that blacks were having their own abortions long before it became legal. Instead of being a plot by Planned Parenthood, the high rate of abortion among African Americans comes from a correspondingly high rate of unplanned pregnancies.〔〔〔 Esther Katz, director of NYU's Margaret Sanger Papers Project, has stated that the film presents a false depiction of Sanger's views and works.〔 The film does not tell the viewer that Hitler banned birth control and abortion after he gained power.〔
==Synopsis==
The title comes from the Swahili term "maafa," which means ''tragedy'' or ''disaster'' and is used to describe the centuries of global oppression of African people during slavery, apartheid and colonial rule, while the number "21" refers to an alleged ''maafa'' in the 21st century (though beginning in the 19th), which the film says is the disproportionately high rate of abortion among African Americans.〔("Klan Parenthood", an interview of Mark Crutcher ) (7/22/2009)〕 The film states that abortion has reduced the black population in the United States by 25 percent. It discusses some of Planned Parenthood's origins (formerly the American Birth Control League), attributing to it a "150-year-old goal of exterminating the black population." It attacks Margaret Sanger, along with other birth control advocates, as a racist eugenicist. The film features conservative African Americans who are associated with the Tea Party movement, including politician Stephen Broden, and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s niece Alveda King, who claims that Sanger targeted black people.〔〔〔(Interview of Dr. Alveda King )〕
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