Friday, September 30, 2005

Another right-wing fool


Dear friends, occasionally we are awakened from our sleepy dillusions of racism by ridiculous, ignorant fools like a fellow named by his mother, William bennet.

Former Education Secretary William Bennett on Wednesday touched off a firestorm on Wednesday when a caller to his "Morning in America" show postulated that if abortion were illegal, Social Security would remain solvent.
Bennett raised questions about the caller's premise, saying that according to that logic, the argument in the book Freakonomics — that allowing abortion reduces crime — would be equally valid.Referring to the book's hypothesis, Bennett told the caller,

"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."

I could not believe my friggin ears when I heard the above comments made by him. By the way this guy is not one of those "the south shall rise again" idiots. This is actually an 'educated' , self proclaimed 'moral evangelist'.

The thing that ticks me off is that he claims that he was misquoted! He deliberately linked crime to infant black babies! His comments reminded me off similar comments by barbara Bush a few days ago expressing dismay that the black New Orleans survivors were thinking of relocating permanently to texas. I hope this is a wake up call to all those who still claim that rasiscm does not exist in today's America.

Racism rears its ugly head again.

2 Comments:

Blogger Stunuh Jay said...

I think racism should be defined as a lack of thought...
thanks for visiting my blog.

6:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't know what Bennet was thinking when he made those comments. some guys in mashada as unbelievable as it seems, are defending his comments

9:58 PM  

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