JumpinJesus

The reason I find it contributing to the problem is because he is stating it is a fact that aborting black babies would reduce the crime rate. How does one come to such a conclusion? In order to do this, one must imply that the largest perpetrators of crime are black. While it may be true that there is a higher proportion of blacks convicted of crimes per population, it does not follow that they in fact commit the most crimes. He is advocating a position which states that blacks are the main root of criminal activity in our country. To hear this statement - and its implications - and agree is to me to subscribe to that very thinking, which is racist. It is stating that since some blacks commit crimes, the best way to prevent any of them commiting crimes is to kill them all off. His qualification that it would be morally reprehensible comes in between two qualifications that it's also true. His advocacy or nonadvocacy isn't an issue to me. His influence with statements like this, however, is.

I suppose I'm just very leery of his decision to use that argument. Of all the examples he could have used to disagree with the caller, he used this. The caller was broaching the subject that had abortion been illegal, then the tax base would be much larger today due to the millions of people who would now be adults. Bennet took it in an entirely different direction and started discussing crime and aborting black babies. Even the caller, if you listen to the clip, was taken aback.

My comment is inflammatory, I realize, but Bennett's comment was even more so, in my opinion.

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