Activist on MSNBC Claims Trump’s Baby Bonus Plan Is Meant To Combat ‘Browning and Blackening’ of U.S.
Activist and legal scholar Michele Goodwin claimed on MSNBC that President Donald Trump’s plan to incentivize women into having children is motivated by a “fear of the browning and blackening” of the country.
Goodwin, a Georgetown law professor and author of Policing the Womb, joined Velshi guest host Charles Coleman on Saturday and claimed that potential plans from the White House to incentivize more child birth are motivated by “child labor” and “replacement theory.”
Coleman ran down a number of reported plans the White House is mulling, including a $5000 payment to new mothers, which the president has already said is a “good idea.” Coleman blasted Republicans for pushing for more children while some red states loosen child labor laws.
“In 2022, house speaker Mike Johnson made headlines for saying the quiet part out loud that if women bought more, quote, able bodied workers into the world, Republicans wouldn’t have to cut social security and medicare. So, in short, have more kids so that the math begins to math. Women are expected to birth a new generation of workers, workers who could be denied fair wages and other protections,” he said.
Goodwin took the argument further and said the plans out of the White House are born out of racism and fear.
“It’s not unusual that governments would create an incentive for people to raise families. That’s not an unusual nationally,” she said. “But what’s really going on here is what you’ve pointed out, which is that here are these policies that I think are meant to do two things. One predates the Civil War, this idea of replacement theory, a need for certain people to have more children, this fear of the browning and blackening of the United States.”
She added the plans to encourage more births is “rooted in exploitation,” arguing some Republicans want to see a big boost in child labor.
Goodwin argued:
Then there’s a part two that comes a century ago when child labor had no protections whatsoever and children were working 40, 50, 60 hour weeks. And exactly what you touched upon is what’s being proposed in some states. And these are the same states that have abortion bans where they want children to be driving at 13 and 14 years old to go to labor their jobs where they would be working over 40 hours I mean, there are proposals right now to do away with child labor protections in various states and to allow for children to work 40 hour work weeks in second and third shift. You cannot make that up. And of course that does not speak to protecting children, to making sure that women have paid parental leave, to expanding Medicaid or anything like that. It is really rooted in exploitation.
Watch above via MSNBC.
