People on both sides of the fence are reacting in horror over Bill Bennett saying "you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down." He followed that with the comment that it would be "an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do," but people have a difficult time getting past the first statement.
Let's face it. There are a higher percentage of blacks in the prison population. Is that because they're black? Of course not.
The number of black children living with their single-mothers has risen sharply since the 60s. (It has risen even faster in the white population, but the overall percentage is still much lower.)
I see the problem on a daily basis here in Springfield, in the white population. Three generations of families whose head of house was a single female. In some instances, they are working on the fourth generation. Not incidentally, they are also working on the fourth generation of Welfare recipients, whose common "disability" is addiction to drugs and/or alcohol (usually both.)
We are now reaping the rewards of the free-love sixties, radical feminism, and the Welfare state. It is wreaking havoc on blacks, so too on whites. It's just taking a little longer.
Link: Bennett Defends Radio Remarks.
Linked to Basil's Blog & Stop the ACLU
Planned Parenthood Advocates Abortion to Reduce Crime
http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2005/09/planned-parenthood-advocates-abortion.html
And the bizarre thing is that Bennett, who explicitly rejects abortion, is under attack.
Posted by: John McAdams | Sunday, October 02, 2005 at 06:41 PM