Many Eugenics Victims Won’t Qualify For Restitution
Posted by Michelle Moquin on November 10th, 2014
Good morning!
Jennie: It looks like you and a few of the other readers have lived this life.
Barbara: :) My pleasure.
Debra: Many of your people are still waiting to get their compensation from being victims of Eugenics. And many won’t qualify. This write is for you. It recently came across my plate. I guess it is no coincidence that you share the same name as the victim in this article.
From NPR:
Payments Start For N.C. Eugenics Victims, But Many Won’t Qualify
Debra Blackmon (left) was sterilized by court order in 1972, at age 14. With help from her niece, Latoya Adams (right), she’s fighting to be included in the state’s compensation program.
Debra Blackmon was about to turn 14 in January 1972, when two social workers came to her home.
Court and medical documents offer some details about what happened that day. Blackmon was “severely retarded,” they note, and had “psychic problems” that made her difficult to manage during menstruation.
Her parents were counseled during the visit, and it was deemed in Blackmon’s best interest that she be sterilized.
Blackmon is among the more than 7,000 people in North Carolina — many poor, many African-American, many disabled — who were sterilized between 1929 and 1976 in one of the country’s most aggressive eugenics programs.
North Carolina passed a law to compensate victims of the state-run program last year. This week, the state sent out the first checks to qualified applicants. But Blackmon, like many others who are fighting for restitution, is not among them.
Blackmon, now 56, has a hard time with the details of that day in 1972 — but she does remember a few things from her trip to Charlotte Memorial Hospital. “My daddy said, ‘Don’t hurt this baby.’ And he was crying,” she recalls.
Latoya Adams, Blackmon’s niece, grew up knowing her aunt had been sterilized. But, she says, “we didn’t find out until recently the extent — exactly what all they did to her.” After the compensation law passed, she went looking for documentation — and came back with a mother lode: a court order, names of social workers and the entire procedure, outlined from pre-op to discharge.
The doctor had labeled it a “eugenics sterilization.” And while it was it relief to have the information, she says, it was also remarkably sad.
“They were telling my grandparents that the surgery was going to be minimally invasive. They told them it would be a tubal ligation. And they [wound] up doing a full abdominal hysterectomy — on a 14-year-old,” Adams says.
With all this evidence, Adams and her family thought they had a case. They filed the paperwork, and waited to hear back. The news wasn’t good.
“The denial letter, the only thing it really stated was that there were no records found and that her case was not approved by the North Carolina Eugenics Board,” Adams says.
The problem lies in a technicality.
The new compensation law says, to be eligible, operations have to have occurred under the state’s Eugenics Board. As it turns out, the board very likely wasn’taware of all the sterilizations taking place. Judges and social service workers were greenlighting sterilizations, as well.
“That’s kind of become the fundamental problem here,” says Bob Bollinger, an attorney representing Blackmon and a few other people who say they are victims.
“You have some old dusty filing cabinet in Raleigh that’s full of Eugenics Board paperwork from decades ago, but yet you’ve got all these people who got sterilized involuntarily, where it was instigated at the local level and their paperwork didn’t wind up being preserved in the eugenics files in Raleigh — if it was ever there to begin with,” he says.
Graham Wilson, a spokesman for the North Carolina Industrial Commission, which decides who qualifies for compensation from the $10 million fund, says, “A lot of people may have had this done under the auspices of local county groups. They’re not qualified,” he says.
“They may think they’re qualified, and obviously they had this procedure done to them,” he says. “But if it was not done under the Eugenics Board of North Carolina, then they’re not qualified.”
Lawyers working with victims estimate hundreds of people — people like Blackmon — could fall into this category.
Blackmon’s operation was ordered by a judge who was part of the state court system. That judge cited a state law.
When asked if that, then, makes the state responsible, Wilson says, “That’s kind of hard to say. Again, it’s just an unfortunate part of our history. It’s just something that was done. So it’s kind of hard to say that the state would be responsible when it was just kind of an accepted practice.”
“It’s frustrating sometimes. It really is,” Blackmon says.
She’s not the only one frustrated. Her niece, Adams, says the denial feels like a double blow.
“Everything is there, but because you can’t find a piece of paper saying it got approved by the North Carolina board, you’re not gonna be compensated. I think it’s sad. I really think it’s sad. It’s like, you’ve hurt her once before, but then now I feel like you’re turning around and hurting her once again.”
There is an appeals process, and Adams and Blackmon are working through that right now. As for people who will be compensated, the first half of the money went out this week —220 checks for $20,000 each. The rest will be disbursed next summer, after the approval process is complete.
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November 10th, 2014 at 9:42 am
Most white don’t give a shit about what they have done, are doing or will do to OTWs.
So this will hardly go anywhere.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:17 am
Michelle, we have 243 members in our Michelle blog discussion group. We often take a vote at the beginning to see how many believe that You or Doug are Zen Lill or if some believe she is real.
The latest returns show that 71 believe you are Zen Lill, 138 believe that Doug is Zen Lill, 31 believe she is a real person and 3 are just not sure or don’t care.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:30 am
Every day on the Supreme Court the 5 GOP “justices” S.calia T.homas A.lioto R.oberts K.ennedy make horrible decisions while the 3 women Democrats stare at them and write historical rebuttals trying to protect US law from destruction by these men.
They “selected” Bush President. They gave politics to the wealthy destroying democracy. They support the south in Jim Crow and the red states in illegal gerrymanders. The gave corporations the right to decide a woman’s health care and impose their religion on her.
Millions more Democrats vote in elections, but the win goes to the right. That is true in a number of states who just voted. More Democratic votes but the right wins.
Do you think this country is what it pretends to be? No way. Half the budget goes to the MIC and security spying parts of the government. That is why the US can not provide social services or health care like other countries. Thank you President Obama for your appointments.
There are hundreds sitting idle while the GOP struts and talks it trailer trash garbage. In time of Ebola we do not have a Surgeon General but the GOP love that too. If you voted for them, shame on you.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:33 am
The republicans won this election even though people forgot how their economic policy ran this country into the ground and then look at Kansas that has become the pot hole state and sinking lower and their credit rating has been lowered and they are 100 percent republican from their tank dunkers for god and trickle down economics.
Its right in front of our eyes but why the hell post facts. According to the republican ebola and terrorist are killing Americans and adam and eve were white.. Democrats will survive.
You know how they are and republicans are an inferior race of whites and what is sad is when republicans get in charge people die. Democrats want healthcare and a healthy Nation.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:37 am
When we whites are accused of racism it is invariably because some nigger has fucked something up.
Well you and the jews, slopes, wetbacks, and muds can just shut the fuck up we WHITE PEOPLE have taken our country back.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:39 am
Alfreda#3, half the budget to the MIC and spying by govt. ?
if this is an example of your accuracy you are a mile off.
the actual number is 20% DUH! i guess that the rest of your comment is at least that far off.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:40 am
The republicans were rewarded for their obstructionism.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:40 am
Marc#6, What statistics are you citing? Half the goddamn budget goes to the MIC and the security state. DUH!
November 10th, 2014 at 10:41 am
Marc#6, You just shoot your mouth off from the ignorance of a FOX viewer. STFU dirtbag !!
November 10th, 2014 at 10:43 am
Niggers need to define themselves by their unique individuality and not by their race. The whole “First black *insert political position*” stopped being a big deal long ago.
November 10th, 2014 at 10:46 am
John#5, So racism is the results of OTWs fucking things up, huh?
November 10th, 2014 at 10:47 am
David#10, Only for white people, did it stop being a big deal long ago.
November 10th, 2014 at 11:03 am
To you catholics who hate the Obama like Pope Francis, you don’t get to gerrymander the Cardinals under him. Pope Francis demoted that ignorant bigot american cardinal Raymond Burke.
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Pope Francis has officially demoted Cardinal Raymond Burke, a prominent American Cardinal who has been highly critical of the pontiff’s increasingly progressive tone when discussing issues such as homosexuality and abortion.
Burke, who made waves in 2004 for saying that voting for a pro-choice candidate is “a serious sin,” has been an unusually outspoken detractor of Pope Francis since he ascended to the papacy in 2013.
When the pontiff declared last year that the Catholic church was too “obsessed” with culture war issues such as abortion, for instance, Burke responded by saying that the church “can never talk enough” about the “massacre of the unborn.”
And while Francis answered a question about gay priests by saying “who am I to judge?” last July, Burke told LifeSiteNews in October that homosexual acts are “always and everywhere wrong, evil.”
But on Saturday, the Vatican announced that Burke, who was elevated to Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI, has been removed from his influential position as head of the Apostolic Signatura — the Vatican’s highest court — and reassigned to a largely ceremonial role as the Patron of the Order of the Knights of Malta.
“The position of Patron of the the Order of Malta is usually given to a retired cardinal, or as a second task to an active cardinal,” Michael Sean Winters, a prominent Catholic journalist, wrote in the National Catholic Reporter. “It has almost no responsibilities.
The demotion is unprecedented, and completely warranted: Cardinal Burke’s influence at the Vatican has been crushingly backward looking, and that influence has resulted in some unhappy appointments.”
The demotion has been rumored for several weeks, with Burke himself confirming his expected title change in an interview with Buzzfeed on October 17th.
Although the rupture between Burke and Francis has been brewing for some time, the final flashpoint appears to have come during the recent Synod on the Family, which was convened in early October by the pope to discuss “family issues” such as homosexuality.
Burke was among the cadre of conservative bishops who were outraged when the synod released a preliminary document that used conciliatory language when speaking about LGBT people, sparking a backlash that culminated in the assembly striking several gay-affirming phrases from the final report.
Burke has been especially critical of the pope ever since, arguing that the pope did “a lot of harm” by not clarifying “openly what his position is” on homosexuality during the synod. Burke also blasted Francis in an interview with a Spanish newspaper in November, comparing the pontiff’s leadership of the church to “a ship without a rudder.”
But while Burke’s job change is laden with controversy, it also appears to be the latest in a series of moves by Pope Francis to construct a Catholic hierarchy that is noticeably more diverse and less overtly conservative.
When Francis unveiled his first large batch of Cardinal appointees in January, it was largely made up of bishops who hailed from countries outside of the West.
And when Cardinal Francis George — a theological conservative who compared organizers of the Chicago Pride Parade to the Ku Klux Klan — retired as Archbishop of Chicago in September, Francis replaced him with Bishop Blase Cupich, a Catholic moderate who has condemned anti-gay bullying and reportedly asked priests and seminarians not to protest Planned Parenthood abortion clinics by praying in front of them.
November 10th, 2014 at 11:33 am
Michelle my brother is excited about attending a lecture here in Tokyo on how to choke women into submission. The lecturer, Julian Blanc, has a blog, and a dating coaching company.
He advocates that men use force rather than consent to gain a woman’s attention. My brother has bought some of his videos showing him using force to get his way with women.
Disgusting! His company is called Real Social Dynamics. http://realsocialdynamics.com/
November 10th, 2014 at 11:39 am
This 14 year old girl had a full hysterectomy, that’s radically sick, and I’m sure they did bury the records if they even kept any…
#2 Pattie, I’m with the 3 who don’t know or just don’t care, lol … bc I actually don’t know or care who believes what about the regulars, those days are long gone.
Luv, Zen Lill
November 10th, 2014 at 12:07 pm
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Security researchers say they’ve discovered a vulnerability in Apple’s software, called “Masque Attack,” that hackers could use to steal sensitive information from iPhones or iPads by tricking device owners into downloading a malicious app.
The app can be designed to look like an update for a legitimate app the owner is already using for email, banking or other purposes, according to researchers at the FireEye cyber-security company. Hackers can send the malicious app in a link, contained in a “phishing” email or text that looks like it comes from a trusted source.
FireEye says it hasn’t seen any hackers use the flaw yet. But it’s warning users not to install apps that don’t come from the official Apple store. FireEye says it has notified Apple, which did not immediately comment.
November 10th, 2014 at 1:50 pm
Pattie #2 Today:
It appears that your group of 243 members are wasting your time voting about who may be who on Michelle’s Blog.
Why can’t everyone be who they claim to be? Wouldn’t that seem normal to you 243 anal people?
Just use the blog as a forum to learn something and voice your opinions instead of trying to make something out of nothing.
Some people are beyond help. Sorry Michelle for speaking for you. I just had to say something to these nuts. It gets tiring hearing this bullshit all the time.
HOWIE
November 10th, 2014 at 2:29 pm
Howie, that’s what I love about you!
You come here sharing amazing stories about alien activity here in our galaxy and beyond and yet you still have that beautiful human quality of just getting plain old ticked off at silly (and old) BS, Lol. I find it very endearing, my blogging brother from another mother : )
- ZL
November 10th, 2014 at 3:27 pm
Hey, Lill, I wanted to let you know that I ain’t you…so, don’t get worried and shit, in case you were making some plans. Or is it that I should have a complex on this issue…? Either way, neither of us do, so…
November 10th, 2014 at 5:02 pm
It’s been a good while since I was supposed to be someone else as well, and that’s a good thing. It’s hard enough just being me. Really, I could careless who thinks I’m not me, sometimes even I wish I wasn’t.
There are one or two personalities I wonder about at times.
Al’Fresco
November 10th, 2014 at 5:24 pm
Michelle: very touching story. I hope that Miss Blackmon gets everything that is owed her and more. Giving a 14yr.old girl a complete hysterectomy is an insane abuse of ones position, can’t even call it power.
Some people have to mess with the lives of others just to feel powerful.
November 10th, 2014 at 7:42 pm
#19 Doug… so nice to see you here and also really good to know you are NOT me : )
Hope all is well in your world, miss you around here, unless,hmmm, wait am I missing myself then, ahahaha … wonder what the ‘numbers’ will be on this comment, hee hee
#20 Al that was a spit my ice tea out moment: ‘Really, I could careless who thinks I’m not me, sometimes even I wish I wasn’t.’
…seriously, I’m never drinking and reading an Al’Fresco comment again, it almost came out my nose, lol, thanks for that giggle…
God, I luv this place, it’s the only place where you can be on almost daily for 7 years and still be thought to be ‘made up’ that’s beautiful, and you can’t make me up if you tried, I’m a one of a kind.
Luv yaz all, Zen Lill
November 10th, 2014 at 9:14 pm
Congratulations Peter, and everyone in Guam on the victory. I’ve heard the medical cannabis initiative was approved 56 percent to 44 percent.
Good news!
/SB
November 10th, 2014 at 9:21 pm
Sad news, Florida couldn’t even get Amendment 2 to pass with 58% of the vote.
/SB
November 10th, 2014 at 9:33 pm
NBC posted a poll that broke down the voting by demographic on Amendment 2. Below are some of the results:
62% of voters 65 and older voted ‘no’
63% of ‘conservative’ voters voted ‘no’, with 60% of Republicans voting ‘no’
63% of Republican women voted no, along with 58% of Republican men
53% of ‘White Protestant/other Christian’ voted ‘no’
Pretty typical of what happened all over the country at the polls, and take special note of that female vote!
Florida politics … Pam Bondi … Rick Scott … and why Jeb Bush thinks he can get elected in 2016.
~smh~
/SB
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/2014/FL/I1/exitpoll
November 10th, 2014 at 10:07 pm
Michelle, 1972 or 2014? Similar things happen today, right here in our state. Did you see this about the sterilization of female inmates?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/06/20/california-female-inmates-sterilized/11037129/
This is our U.S. Home of the (proud?)
/SB
November 11th, 2014 at 7:55 am
/SB: Not to mention that every one of those inmates has had their civil rights taken away, including the right to vote. One reason for the high incidence of OTW incarceration.
Some can have them restored, and those few have miles of red tape to unravel to do so.
November 11th, 2014 at 8:01 am
/SB, to ‘conservatives’ and people over 65 it is assed that pot is a ‘gate way’ drug, they don’t really look at research indicating it’s positive medical uses, bc old conservatives are the most set in their ways people you’re ever going to meet. And they really do feel that they’re right (ex. Look at some if the people who post here who are part of that group, they think it’s perfectly fine to throw down derogatory group names and call the US ‘their’ country, etc…)
It would be that same group would agree w unauthorized tubal ligations for inmates not even thinking about how illegal or personally invasive that is. On their minds it’s their larger tax dollars that would support those babies so they have a ‘right’ to choose for you. Incarcerated women have few ‘rights’ to begin with si they wouldn’t be consulted, the while justice system is so broken…in so many ways…don’t get me going…!
Off the soapbox now, luv, Zen Lill
November 11th, 2014 at 8:03 am
Assed is supposed to assumed but hey ASSED works too.
And it’s whole justice system *
November 11th, 2014 at 8:42 am
Zen Lill#29, I’m one of the 3 who didn’t vote. I didn’t vote because I don’t care. I like your posts and like the others I look forward to them. But unlike most of them I don’t do it so I can analyze EVERYTHING you say.
I take it for what it is. Intelligent repartee. They see it as Michelle trying to keep the talk going since a lot of people respond to your input.
November 11th, 2014 at 8:44 am
Thanks Anon#16. I have an apple and this is possible a godsend for me. I didn’t know it.
November 11th, 2014 at 8:55 am
Howie#17, here’s how the vote went: 201 he’s an alien pretending to be human. 22 he’s a human with alien connections. 20 no votes.
November 11th, 2014 at 9:01 am
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November 11th, 2014 at 9:03 am
Howie, You have a big fan club in Reutov. We think you know this God. We pray to it.
November 12th, 2014 at 9:02 am
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