What do these words have in common???..... Read on....Then express your OPINION!
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Congressional Democrats blasted former Education Secretary William Bennett on Thursday for saying that aborting "every black baby in this country" would reduce the crime rate, and demanded their Republican counterparts do the same.
"This is precisely the kind of insensitive, hurtful and ignorant rhetoric that Americans have grown tired of," said Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Illinois.
Bennett, who held prominent posts in the administrations of former presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, told a caller to his syndicated radio talk show Wednesday: "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 impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down," he said.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, called on President Bush to condemn the comments by Bennett, who was anti-drug chief in Bush's father's administration.
"What could possibly have possessed Secretary Bennett to say those words, especially at this time?" Pelosi asked. "What could he possibly have been thinking? This is what is so alarming about his words."
Bennett stood by his comments Thursday night.
"I was putting forward a hypothetical proposition. Put that forward. Examined it. And then said about it that it's morally reprehensible. To recommend **** of an entire group of people in order to lower your crime rate is morally reprehensible. But this is what happens when you argue that the ends can justify the means," he told CNN.
"I'm not racist, and I'll put my record up against theirs," referring to Pelosi and other critics. "I've been a champion of the real civil rights issue of our times -- equal educational opportunities for kids."
"We've got to have candor and talk about these things while we reject wild hypotheses," Bennett said.
"I don't think people have the right to be angry, if they look at the whole thing. But if they get a selective part of my comment, I can see why they would be angry. If somebody thought I was advocating that, they ought to be angry. I would be angry."
"But that's not what I advocate."
Asked if he owed people an apology, Bennett replied, "I don't think I do. I think people who misrepresented my view owe me an apology."
Bennett served as Reagan's chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1981-1985 and secretary of education from 1985-1988. From 1989-1990, he served as "drug czar" in the administration of the elder Bush.
Rush called on "my friends, the responsible Republicans" to rebuke the former Cabinet official by backing a House resolution condemning his remarks as "outrageous racism of the most bigoted and ignorant kind."
"Where is the indignation from the ****, as one of their prominent members talk about aborting an entire race of Americans as a way of ridding this country of crime?" asked Rush, a former Black Panther. "How ridiculous! How asinine! How insane can one be?"
He called instead for "aborting" Republican policies "which have hurt the disadvantaged, the poor, average Americans for the benefit of large corporations."
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said he was "appalled" by Bennett's remarks.
"The Republican Party has recently taken great pains to reach out to the African-American community, and I hope that they will be swift in condemning Mr. Bennett's comments as nothing short of callous and ignorant," said Reid, D-Nevada.
And Bruce Gordon, president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, demanded an apology from Bennett and the Salem Radio Network, which airs his radio program.
"In 2005, there is no place for the kind of racist statement made by Bennett," Gordon said in a written statement. "While the entire nation is trying to help survivors, black and white, to recover from the damage caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it is unconscionable for Bennett to make such ignorant and insensitive comments."
A man who answered the phone at the network said no one would be available to comment until Friday.
Bennett's 1993 repackaging of traditional morality tales, "The Book of Virtues," became a bestseller, and Bennett became a popular lecturer on moral issues. But in 2003, stung by news reports that he had lost millions of dollars in Las Vegas and Atlantic City over the last decade, he publicly renounced gambling and vowed to stay away from the slots from then on.
He is a Fox News contributor and chairman of "Americans for Victory over ****," which his Web site calls "a project dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public opinion as the war on **** moves forward."
I'm not surprised. One of the motivating forces in the 1930's behind making **** available and legal in the first place was exactly that - to reduce the ranks of the disabled, mentally inferior, criminals, and other "undesirables". You can probably figure out where that's headed.
The founder of what is now Planned Parenthood (a modern proponent of ****) designed it with a main goal being to encourage **** amongst Blacks. This is a well-documented fact, and was only one of many programs like this in the US which practiced a ****-like philosophy of "racial purification" and perfection.
In fact, contrary to popular belief, **** did not create that philosophy - he adopted it from the US. This too, is a well-documented fact. National Socialist (****) doctors and researchers traveled to the US in 1936 and 1938 to study state and locally sponsored eugenics programs.
That this is arising again is not shocking, and it's not a new idea. In that I can't blame Bennett - he is only calling attention to a misbelief that's been there for some time; however that people still think that way is outrageous. A statistically significant majority of serial killers, rapists, pedophiles, and domestic abusers are White - does this mean that eliminating Caucasians would reduce or eliminate those problems? In theory, it would, although I dont necessarily agree with it.
We really need to wake up to what is going on around us. If you'd like to see for yourself, look up Margaret Sanger and eugenics. Then, take a close look at who is engineering our education, and it will really start to sink in.
Holla!
Does anyone else see the double irony in this statement?
Republicans dont even believe in **** yet they are willing to go against their hardcore belief to get rid of Black people. Now I consider that a serious statement. :x
damn...i didnt even think about that!! this is why i hate our government...nah lemme correct myself, our system of government is okay...its just the people running it who suck!!
I'm not surprised. One of the motivating forces in the 1930's behind making **** available and legal in the first place was exactly that - to reduce the ranks of the disabled, mentally inferior, criminals, and other "undesirables". You can probably figure out where that's headed.
The founder of what is now Planned Parenthood (a modern proponent of ****) designed it with a main goal being to encourage **** amongst Blacks. This is a well-documented fact, and was only one of many programs like this in the US which practiced a ****-like philosophy of "racial purification" and perfection.
In fact, contrary to popular belief, **** did not create that philosophy - he adopted it from the US. This too, is a well-documented fact. National Socialist (****) doctors and researchers traveled to the US in 1936 and 1938 to study state and locally sponsored eugenics programs.
That this is arising again is not shocking, and it's not a new idea. In that I can't blame Bennett - he is only calling attention to a misbelief that's been there for some time; however that people still think that way is outrageous. A statistically significant majority of serial killers, rapists, pedophiles, and domestic abusers are White - does this mean that eliminating Caucasians would reduce or eliminate those problems? In theory, it would, although I dont necessarily agree with it.
We really need to wake up to what is going on around us. If you'd like to see for yourself, look up Margaret Sanger and eugenics. Then, take a close look at who is engineering our education, and it will really start to sink in.
Holla!
how dare you speak of Margaret Sanger so
she didn't design Planned Parenthood for Black abortions
she did it for ALL women
it was an health issue
women having multiple babies isn't healthy to their bodies and some were dying from it
and others just wanted to stop having so many babies
this was a way for them to control it
it had nothing to do just Blacks having abortions
I'm not surprised. One of the motivating forces in the 1930's behind making **** available and legal in the first place was exactly that - to reduce the ranks of the disabled, mentally inferior, criminals, and other "undesirables". You can probably figure out where that's headed.
The founder of what is now Planned Parenthood (a modern proponent of ****) designed it with a main goal being to encourage **** amongst Blacks. This is a well-documented fact, and was only one of many programs like this in the US which practiced a ****-like philosophy of "racial purification" and perfection.
In fact, contrary to popular belief, **** did not create that philosophy - he adopted it from the US. This too, is a well-documented fact. National Socialist (****) doctors and researchers traveled to the US in 1936 and 1938 to study state and locally sponsored eugenics programs.
That this is arising again is not shocking, and it's not a new idea. In that I can't blame Bennett - he is only calling attention to a misbelief that's been there for some time; however that people still think that way is outrageous. A statistically significant majority of serial killers, rapists, pedophiles, and domestic abusers are White - does this mean that eliminating Caucasians would reduce or eliminate those problems? In theory, it would, although I dont necessarily agree with it.
We really need to wake up to what is going on around us. If you'd like to see for yourself, look up Margaret Sanger and eugenics. Then, take a close look at who is engineering our education, and it will really start to sink in.
Holla!
how dare you speak of Margaret Sanger so
she didn't design Planned Parenthood for Black abortions
she did it for ALL women
it was an health issue
women having multiple babies isn't healthy to their bodies and some were dying from it
and others just wanted to stop having so many babies
this was a way for them to control it
it had nothing to do just Blacks having abortions
I agree that Sanger's motivation behind promoting **** and eugenics was a good cause, which was to prevent unwanted children from becoming victims of poverty and crime. It was also used to promote prenatal care and testing - for example testing fetuses for Down's syndrome, and terminating pregnancies that could threaten the mother or child's health. However, there were many who abused that platform to serve their own causes - such as Southern communities that wanted to preserve their way of life with civil rights legislation pending.
My purpose isn't to attack Margaret Sanger, but rather to call people's attention to the political spin that people can attach to otherwise non-political issues. I've seen just as much research supporting her point of view as that which attacks it. It's funny how a political cause can be associated with something that has little or nothing to do with it (the high school science class syllabus in the Midwest is now a battle over religious rights). Holla!
*laughs* This is all a crock of sh*t.
Okay, fine. Lets also call out the cheating, lying black politicians and the **** behind the hispanic ones...I mean, since we're going out for blood because the guy says something True...
NO ONE here disagreed with his statement, only that he made it, and my question is are you mad that its true or mad that he said it? Blacks are a minority of the population, and they...no WE still have a significant crime ratio. If theres a class of 50 people, and 30 are white and 20 are black...if 18 of the black people are criminals and 20 of the whites are, then even though there are more white criminals 18/20 of the black people are criminals. Thats a significant ratio, and that doesnt accurately CAPTURE the crime rate, but the numbers game is still the same.
Im getting nauseated thinking about all of this actually. Study this issue more before you gain a half assed thought about it. Your voices influence thought whether you know it or not....I met a guy who said he found a link to a post I had written and it changed the way he viewed all races (he goes to my college).
then u do that
you DID attach her name to that Sh*t
and she wasn't like that at all
learn to be to specific and not claim to have knowledge on things you do NOT have any of
In this case, you're right, I should have clarified. I said that Margaret Sanger encouraged abortions among Blacks, which is true. She encouraged them for everyone; however it was seen that Blacks could benefit most by an alternative to having children who couldn't be cared for. She also realized that the campaign could be misinterpreted as an extermination plot, and placed Black physicians in charge of the project to ease this fear.
However, eugenecists such as Madison Grant used public acceptance of those philosophies to justify things like anti-miscegenation laws and forced sterilization, which wasn't the original intent.
Wisdom_Tree wrote:
*laughs* This is all a crock of sh*t.
That's true, but the whole point of the forum is to get people talking and thinking. I'd rather see someone give an opinion I disagree with than none at all.
I think that people are irritated not because of what he said... but rather the fact that there are so many Black criminals that it incriminates those of us who aren't. There's not some inherent physical trait in Black people that destines them to commit crime, so it would be cultural. So the real question is why do so many people who look like you and me believe that those acts are acceptable?
Holla
then u do that
you DID attach her name to that Sh*t
and she wasn't like that at all
learn to be to specific and not claim to have knowledge on things you do NOT have any of
In this case, you're right, I should have clarified. I said that Margaret Sanger encouraged abortions among Blacks, which is true. She encouraged them for everyone; however it was seen that Blacks could benefit most by an alternative to having children who couldn't be cared for. She also realized that the campaign could be misinterpreted as an extermination plot, and placed Black physicians in charge of the project to ease this fear.
However, eugenecists such as Madison Grant used public acceptance of those philosophies to justify things like anti-miscegenation laws and forced sterilization, which wasn't the original intent.
Wisdom_Tree wrote:
*laughs* This is all a crock of sh*t.
That's true, but the whole point of the forum is to get people talking and thinking. I'd rather see someone give an opinion I disagree with than none at all.
I think that people are irritated not because of what he said... but rather the fact that there are so many Black criminals that it incriminates those of us who aren't. There's not some inherent physical trait in Black people that destines them to commit crime, so it would be cultural. So the real question is why do so many people who look like you and me believe that those acts are acceptable?
Holla
You hit the spot with that one....thats whythere are so many who are offended
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..... its POLITICS not "POLOTICS" .... shame on you all.
I'm sorry!!!!! I wasn't even paying much attention to that!!!!!!!! Oh well!!!!!!!!
I think that everybody made some very valid opinions.... thankyou all for your opinions..... except for the one a$$hole that had to be ignorant... he knows who he is. SMH
