Atlanta: Where Apologizing for Eugenics is Somehow Controversial
Posted by Osagie K. Obasogie February 14, 2007
Biopolitical Times
Over at the Atlanta Constitution Journal (AJC), opinion page editor Cynthia Tucker has written a thoughtful piece on Georgia's eugenic past and why its time for an apology. Yet what's striking is not only that Georgia carried out over 3300 forced sterilizations between 1937 and 1970, but, judging from AJC reader comments, that many resist acknowledging this wrong. Such hostility doesn't bode well for the hope that Georgians and others will learn from the past to prevent eugenic futures.