Sterilized

Thousands Sterilized, a State Weighs Restitution

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/us/redress-weighed-for-forced-sterilizations-in-north-carolina.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimes

Young girls raped by dirty old men

(Endless stream of sick uncles, fathers, cousins, priests)

Then forcefully sterilized

Poor kids from homes with too many mouths to feed

Made to “sign the paper or mama’s checks get cut off”

Teenage boys who failed IQ tests

Who skipped school to pick cotton in the burning sun

Deemed unworthy 

60,000 men and women sterilized

Futures stolen, 

Excised by the state’s skilled hands