Friday, September 30, 2005

GOPer: To Reduce Crime, Abort Every Black Baby

And who says racism is dead? Former GOP Education Secretary, Bill Bennett stated on his radio program on 9/28/05 (MediaMatters has audio here): "if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." Hmm, if memory serves me correctly, there was another famous campaign to rid the world of "unwanted" people... what was it?... Oh yeah, it was Hitler when he launched the genocide known as the Holocaust, but I digress. Well, Rep John Conyers is not taking this lightly. Please visit his blog to read the text of his letter that Conyers has written to the president of the Salem Radio Network, the network that carries Bennett's program, requesting that they suspend this program and address the problem of stereotyping and profiling that has been expressed on their programming. Why should we be shocked, really? We have Charles Murray, of The Bell Curve fame, writing in the Wall St Jrnl that what we're seeing post-Katrina isn't poverty but a once-again visible "underclass" of unsocialized black men w/no appetite for work, no capacity to hold jobs, and no ability to be helped through conventional methods. They are, quite literally, savages, unable to function in the world the rest of us inhabit. They are, as he puts it, the "looters and the thugs," not to mention the "inert women doing nothing to help themselves or their children."
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