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Posted on 09/29/2005 10:22:29 AM PDT by Stone Mountain
Bill Bennett: Fewer black babies = less crime in America
If Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman is serious about wooing African-American voters, he can throw all his energy into speaking to African-American groups and recruiting African-American candidates. Either that, or he could just ask Bill Bennett to shut up.
Bennett, who served as secretary of education under Ronald Reagan before writing the beloved-by-the-right "Book of Virtues," explained on his radio show yesterday that America could reduce its crime rate by eliminating African-Americans.
Media Matters has the audio. The gist of it: A caller to Bennett's radio show suggested that the Social Security system would have money to spare if the nation hadn't aborted so many wage earners over the years. In the course of raising questions about that theory, Bennett said you can't make too many assumptions about the kind of adults aborted fetuses might grow up to be.
There is "just too much that you don't know," Bennett said. "But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose -- you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down."
-- Tim Grieve
Open mouth....insert foot!
Truth hurts and Bennett will pay a price for stating it.
Radio hosts say on their radio shows whatever it takes to get them ratings and money.
If you eliminated any race your crime rate would go down. So in that light what he said was just a understood fact. You eliminate any heavy percentage of the population, then the crime rate would go down.
Sorry - please delete this thread - I guess I double posted...
Weren't abortion supporters touting the benefits of abortion awhile back by claiming that the crime rate had been reduced because of abortion? Strange that no one in the media found that to be a distasteful statement, but what Bennett says is bad form.
Bennett can pull himself away from playing Keno long enough to host a radio show?
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