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The stigmatization of poor white families more than a century ago should provide a warning: behaviors that seem to have begun in the 1960s belong to a much longer and more complex history than ideologically driven writers like Mr. Murray would have us believe.
-- Nell Irvin Painter at The New York Times
I love this shot at Murray. Mr. Painter speaks of American policy at the turn of the twentieth century on white poverty, and how enforced sterilization became an accepted practice. This is from that era in which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote for the Supreme Court: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
-- Nell Irvin Painter at The New York Times
I love this shot at Murray. Mr. Painter speaks of American policy at the turn of the twentieth century on white poverty, and how enforced sterilization became an accepted practice. This is from that era in which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote for the Supreme Court: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
