Reddit reviews Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Some additional recommended reading is Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts goes into some detail on how Black feminist issues are intentionally ignored by the feminist movement at large. Since her focus is on reproductive rights, she largely discusses the interplay between the negative portrayals of Black reproduction, and how that goes into the larger discussion of reproductive rights.

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts.

I picked up the book (but haven't read it yet) when I was reading for my Critical Narrative Theory class and found this in a footnote:

"In one study where "the rate of positive results for [substance abuse by] white [pregnant] women (15.4 percent) was slightly higher than that for Black women (14.1 percent)," black women were nonetheless "ten times more likely than whites to be reported to the government authorities"

This, of course, after the revelation (also from Brown's book) that:

"it has been legally accepted for the state to remove to protective custody the infants of black cocaine addicts but not babies born to white well-to-do alcoholics, even though 'injury to a fetus from excessive alcohol far exceeds the harm from crack exposure'"

Anyway, as a feminist and a scholar interested in Critical Race Theory it seemed right up my alley. I have a sneaking suspicion this would be the right crowd for this book. And I really, really need an excuse to read it.

Ah the famous tale of sterilizing Ethiopians: as Wikipedia can show you, "there was no plan to deliberately reduce the birth rates of Ethiopian Jews, and there was no evidence of coercion". More about it here:

https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-allison-kaplan-sommer-ethiopian-smear-1.5227568

Furthermore if you really think Ethiopians are more discriminated in Israel than blacks in the US for example, I suggest you look at the following links:

https://www.forbesafrica.com/woman/2017/10/18/israel-home-home-ethiopian/

https://youtu.be/EgG6jCwnd48

http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Ethiopian-Lt-Colonel-makes-IDF-history-473268

Those Ethiopians look so much oppressed, don't they? I really like your statement about if America did this people would go crazy, I suggest you read this book :

https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Black-Body-Reproduction-Meaning/dp/0679758690

"From slave masters’ economic stake in bonded women’s fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s, these abuses pointed to the degradation of Black motherhood—and the exclusion of Black women’s reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas"

Finally, you don't get to decide to reinvent the definition of ethnic cleaning or massacre, which is not even close to what the Palestinian people have been through.

If you want to have different opinions if there really was an ethnic cleansing in 1948 or not, I suggest you take a look here where the answers are the most balance, and you will maybe learn that there was indeed a tentative of ethnic cleaning but not the one you think:

https://www.quora.com/Is-Israel-guilty-of-ethnic-cleansing

although you're making a good and important point, you should probably check the misogyny in your post too.

men also play a role in creating a child. therefore they should also play a role in raising the child. their intelligence, capability, and stability should be questioned, as well. it takes two people. women don't get pregnant all by themselves.

moreover, when talking about addictions that women may have you ignore the fact that there is a small time frame in which the women would have to achieve sobriety. in many cases, inadequate prenatal health care availability and drug treatment facilities that even accept pregnant women are few (and likely expensive). i highly doubt most women want to continue to use drugs while they are pregnant. yet, certain systemic oppression (like race and class) make it extremely difficult for most drug-addicted women to end their addictions during their pregnancy. this of course doesn't excuse drug use, but i think it's more complicated than women simply not caring that their addiction may harm their child.

read this.

I got the term from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Black-Body-Reproduction-Meaning/dp/0679758690