Atsu,
Should I take this toke seriously or just take it as a joke? An expensive joke ! Reminds me of former Senate Majority leader Frits (did I get the name right?).
Will it not be "genocide" to abort ALL black babies?
Devine
"J. Atsu Amegashie" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Bennett Under Fire for Remark on Crime and Black Abortions
By Brian Faler
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, September 30, 2005; Page A05
Democratic lawmakers and civil rights leaders denounced conservative commentator
William J. Bennett yesterday for suggesting on his syndicated radio show that
aborting black children would reduce the U.S. crime rate.
The former U.S. education secretary-turned-talk show host said Wednesday 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." Bennett quickly added that such an idea would be "an impossible,
ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do." But, he said, "your crime
rate would go down."
Bennett's comments, flagged by the liberal news media watchdog group Media
Matters for America, were quickly condemned by Senate Minority Leader Harry M.
Reid (D-Nev.), who issued a statement demanding that Bennett apologize. Rep.
John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) circulated a letter, signed by 10 of his colleagues,
demanding that the Salem Radio Network suspend Bennett's show.
Wade Henderson, the executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights, demanded that the show be canceled.
"Bennett's statement is outrageous. As a former secretary of education, he
should know better," Henderson said. "His program should be pulled from the
air."
A spokeswoman for Salem Radio Network did not return three calls requesting
comment.
Bennett, education secretary under then-President Ronald Reagan and director of
drug policy during George H.W. Bush's administration has written a number of
books stressing the importance of traditional values, including the 1993
bestseller "The Book of Virtues."
In 2003, he admitted he was a heavy gambler after news reports that he had lost
millions of dollars in casinos.
Bennett's comments came Wednesday, during a discussion on his talk show "Morning
in America." A caller had suggested that Social Security would be better funded
if abortion had not been legalized in 1973 because the nation would have more
workers paying into the system.
Bennett said "maybe," before referring to a book he said argued that the
legalization of abortion is one of the reasons the crime rate has declined in
recent decades. Bennett said he did not agree with that thesis.
"But 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," Bennett said, according to an
audio clip posted on Media Matters for America's Web site. "That would be an
impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime
rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, you know, extensive
extrapolations are, I think, tricky."
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 06:48:21 -0400
From: Crystal Muhammad <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: National Economic Association List <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [Nea-l] Fwd: Bennet on Fire for Remarks about crime and
black abortions
To: [log in to unmask]
Crystal Gafford Muhammad, J.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Higher Education
Department of Adult & Community College Education
300N Poe Hall, Campus Box 7801
Raleigh, NC 27695-7801
919.515.6295 (telephone)
919.515.6305 (fax)
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I was disgusted and appalled that this type of assault can be openly
discussed about black children!!! William Bennett, former secretary of
education, bestseller author of The Book of Virtues, and confessed
gambler, stated on his conservative talk radio that black babies should
be aborted to reduce the crime rate. Please review the article from the
Washington Post for yourself
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/29/AR2005092902126.html?nav=hcmodule).
Next, I encourage all of you to contact the Salem Broadcast Network to
express your discontent regarding one of their employees stating this on
a Christian and prolife radio network
http://www.srnonline.com/index-contactus.shtml. Futhermore, I would
contact some of their corporate sponsors such as Coca Cola, Sprint,
Bayer, and Travelocity. I plan to make calls and send my letters out
today. We have to stand up for the rights of our children. Hope you
have a wonderful and blessed day!!! Take care.
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J. Atsu Amegashie
Department of Economics
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
Canada N1G 2W1
webpage: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~jamegash
Phone: 519-824-4120 Ext. 58945
Fax: 519-763-8497
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