The Breakfast Club - IDKMYDE: Eugenics and Elaine Riddick

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

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crazy you probably didn't hear enough about in school, eugenics. Now eugenics sounds like a fancy science word right? Like oh that must be some tech that Elon Musk is cooking up. But no, it was a straight up evil plan to decide who was fit to have babies and who wasn't. Spoiler alert, if you were black, poor or disabled, they decided you weren't fit. I didn't know, maybe you didn't need. I didn't know, maybe you didn't need.

I didn't know, maybe you didn't need. I didn't know, I didn't know. So back in the day from like 1929 to 1974 white folks was out here playing God They sterilized over 60,000 people in the United States forcibly Like imagine going to the doctor and instead of fixing your cough They're like, yeah, you're never having kids You're welcome Out of the 60,000, North Carolina alone sterilized over 7,600 people.

And North Carolina was super nuts because they let social workers, not doctors, not judges, but social workers decide who should get sterilized. I mean, they're sitting there with their notepads. Um, your poor? Check. Your single? Check. You backtalk to your teacher in third grade? Yeah, sterilized. And they love throwing around this term called feeble minded.

Like what even is that? They call folks feeble minded for being poor or for not finishing school. One of the most infamous cases was a black girl named Elaine Riddick. She was 14 years old, got pregnant after being raped and instead of helping her, the state sterilized her. They called her feeble minded. It was a legit diagnosis. Sisters just trying to survive being black and poor in North Carolina. Here's the kicker. They claimed they were helping society like sterilizing people would stop poverty or crime. Nah fam, it just made them feel powerful while

ruining people's lives. Families were destroyed, legacies were cut off, and survivors like Elaine Riddick been fighting for justice ever since. And don't think this is ancient history. Forced sterilizations are still happening. Prisons, immigrant detention centers, yeah they done tried to find a wraparound for it. Y'all ain't slick. So let's keep it real. If you don't know your history, they'll run the same playbook on us again. And let's all take a moment to remember Elaine Riddick and all the people who were brave enough to speak out because one thing's for show and two things for certain. Black folks might be resilient, but we shouldn't have to bounce back from this and I didn't know maybe you didn't either

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