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."
WHO are the stupid **** saying this is true?
someone name em for me so i can give em a verbal smackdown
Youd be referring to me. *chin slightly high, looking down on you from his tall stature* You dont wanna go there...leave it be.
I wasn't talking about you... I felt that you stated your own opinion but a certain individual was being ignorant but I'm not going to point that person out he knows who he is!!!!
I heard bout this late yesterday...but, damn, the audacity of the old white geezer..I see where Wisdom Tree would find reason and justification to say what he said..and maybe the old white bum...BUT, it's deeper than juss ****...yes, blacks have a high crime rate especially when you look at our numbers in the US, the proportion is juss ridiculously large..
like it's been said before...1) it's not the babies' frickin fault...how can you condemn the black babies...abort them all, and some1 will juss blame the next minority group (cuz u know aint nobody gonna blame the white ppl..oooh nooo)..maybe if a large number of black children didn't grow up in less than adequate conditions, crime would decrease..and 2) by blaming black children, it does incriminate all black people..but obviously, we're not all criminals..
neway, besides recapping..dis story juss made me laugh (sad laughter) cuz it reminded me of my filipino/chinese friend who strongly believed black people caused the most crime in the country..therefore, when reporters portrayed black people as "looters" and white people as "finders"...it was completely justifiable to him..juss made me mad..cuz people like that, even people with black friends..still think that way..
WHO are the stupid **** saying this is true?
someone name em for me so i can give em a verbal smackdown
Youd be referring to me. *chin slightly high, looking down on you from his tall stature* You dont wanna go there...leave it be.
**** please
now i'd expect whites to say this is true being that most are so ignorant
but a black BROTHA to agree that aborting black babies will mean less crime?
clearly you are brainwashed, not intelligent, and a lost cause
so going by your logic
ya black **** mama should have aborted ya dumbazz because you'd grow up to be a criminal
Change has serious difficulty identifying the quantative and the qualitative.
It is politically, a correct statement. It's not policy, nor something he proposed. Albeit something he should have refrained from saying.
