In an NBC25 exclusive, a story about a controversial message banned from becoming a billboard has struck a nerve on connectmidmichigan.com and the NBC25 Facebook page.
That message, a quote from Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger talking about the extermination of black people.
Both pro-life and pro-choice supporters are trying to answer, "Who was Margaret Sanger?" You can read exerpts of her book, "The Pivot of Civilization" by clicking here. Planned Parenthood outlines who Margaret Sanger was here. A pro-life group outlines who Margaret Sanger was here.
The sign that CBS Outdoor refused to put on one of its Flint billboards quotes Margaret Sanger saying, "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population."
The group behind the sign, Flint Area Right to Life, says banning the billboard is keeping the truth about Sanger from getting out.
"If you read her biography, she was very much tied to the Ku Klux Klan, to the Nazis, to Hitler. She very much wanted thoroughbreds. That's the word she used, thoroughbreds, and the way to make that happen was to eliminate minorities. She called them weeds in the garden of life," says Judy Climer, director of Flint Area Right to Life.