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MaafaBlack Genocide in 21st Century America is an antiabortion documentary film made in 2009 by prolife activist Mark Crutcher to turn African Americans against Planned Parenthood. The film, which has been enthusiastically received by antiabortion activists, argues that the modernday prevalence of abortion among African Americans is rooted in an attempted genocide or maafa of black people. Considered propaganda by journalist Michelle Goldberg and historian Esther Katz, the film fits into a prolife advertising campaign aimed at African Americans, to argue against abortion and birth control.

The title comes from the Swahili term maafa, which means tragedy or disaster and is used to describe the centuries of global oppression of African people during slavery, apartheid and colonial rule, while the numberrefers to an alleged maafa in the 21st century though beginning in the 19th, which the film says is the disproportionately high rate of abortion among African Americans. The film states that abortion has reduced the black population in the United States bypercent. It discusses some of Planned Parenthoods origins formerly the American Birth Control League, attributing to it a 150yearold goal of exterminating the black population. It attacks Margaret Sanger, along with other birth control advocates, as a racist eugenicist. The film features conservative African Americans who are associated with the Tea Party movement, including politician Stephen Broden, and Martin Luther King, Jr.s niece Alveda King, who claims that Sanger targeted black people.The film was released on June 15, 2009, and the premiere screening was held on June 18, 2009, on the eve of Juneteenth, at the United States Capitol Visitor Center. ........

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