The fact that some people have said and done things that modern people (myself included) consider reprehensible does not mean that there is an ongoing 150-year “conspiracy” to exterminate black people. Pushing such a belief fosters racial intolerance and fear instead of cooperation, and leads to increased marginalization and isolation of racial minorities. It is anti-American propaganda geared toward inflaming passion and paranoia.

I've been looking through the comments, and I see that Ryan certainly has his defenders.

When I look at the billboard and the website, and then see it being promoted in association with the Maafa 21 racist propaganda piece . . . Well, let me just say that I'd love to know Ryan's inspiration for the project.

Maybe he would like to provide some comments? I'd be happy to pose a few questions, perhaps do an email interview. (I lack telephone recording equipment at present and don't wish to misquote.)

Feel free to contact me via the website's contact form.

Why are you spurting more racist accusations at me, Valerie? The billboards and the website are playing off and reinforcing the belief that white people are out to exterminate black people. Nothing good can come of it; all it does is increase racial tension and encourage bigotry. It’s disgusting and cynical.

Thank you for pointing out the error about Ryan’s age at adoption. I have corrected it.

Abraham Lincoln’s plan for freeing African slaves also involved sending them back to Africa. Does this make the end of slavery evil, and everything Lincoln did bad?

Have you read anything of hers other than the comments conspiracy theorists throw around? Here are a couple for you:

• War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

• No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.

Declaring that modern Planned Parenthood’s focus is the extermination of black people based upon this is ridiculous paranoia, and you know it. How, pray tell, do you expect women to lift themselves out of poverty with half a dozen children to raise? How can they give those children proper attention and help them get educated when they can’t even put food on the table for them?

While I’m not personally a fan of abortion — I’d much rather see sexually-active (married or otherwise) men and women use birth control and prevent unwanted pregnancies in the first place — I think it disgusting and reprehensible to play on the fears of a race which has been oppressed in this nation for centuries and try to convince them that taking control over their own reproduction is complying with a “conspiracy” to exterminate them.