Mother-- What are you reading today my Dear.?
Me--Jonathan Kellerman Survival of the Fittest.
Mother-- Is this a Novel.?
Me-- Yup, a who done it.
Mother-- Why do you read such trash, what can you learn from wasting your time on fluff stuff.?
Me-- Mom, did you know that President Coolidge bought into Eugenics, even passed laws about the so called problem.?
Mother-- OH that Nazi stuff, they were monsters, They certainly did not get their Evil ideas from us, only the very ignorant and uneducated would fall for that thinking.
Me-- Mom, we were practicing Eugenics into the 1970's and still are.
Mother-- Well that was then this is now, try to read something relevant that will educate you.
Me-- This book was published 12 years ago and it is relevent to this health care bill.
Mother---You will never learn anything from reading trash, and besides at my age that is the last subject I even want to think about.
Me----Yes mother.
A very disturbing novel a trade for another book, I am new to this Author. What had started out as a few hours on a cold day quick read of fluff from an old murder mystery has now captivated me.
1927-----Virginia Unwed mother Carrie Buck was sterilized against her will by virtue of the US Supreme Court. No less then Oliver Wendell Holmes stated that 3 generations of imbeciles are enough. The one child she had given birth to went on to College as an honor student.---
Carrie herself was released on [ parole ] from a sanitarium for epileptics found to be of normal intelligence.
Darn this will take up a few hours of research this cold and miserable winter.
