Why Is It So Hard To Say Sorry?

Look! I know what this man meant! Blacks are disproportionately represented in the penal system for certain types of crimes and, theoretically, if we ceased to exist, there would be fewer crimes. Right? I get the point even though it isn't skin color that causes crime but conditions like racism, like y'alls president said, that cause poverty and the associated ills. Bennett's comment was simplistic and insensitive and it feeds completely into the misnomer that blacks are the sole purveyors of crime in America. Why can't the man just say that his remarks were out of line? Why can't anyone in the Bush adminstration admit to any kind of fallibility?

After pondering on his radio program how aborting every black infant in America would affect crime rates, best-selling author and self-styled 'Values Czar' Bill Bennett is vehemently denying he is a racist and defending his willingness to speak publicly about race and crime.

On the Wednesday edition of his radio show, 'Bill Bennett's Morning in America,' syndicated by Salem Radio Network, a caller raised the theory that Social Security is in danger of becoming insolvent because legalized abortion has reduced the number of tax-paying citizens. Bennett said economic arguments should never be employed in discussions of moral issues.

If it were your sole purpose to reduce crime, Bennett said, 'You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.

'That would be an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down,' he added.

I still have to ask which crime rate? Would it reduce the number of serial killers? Would it reduce the number of pedophiles? Would it reduce the number of missing pretty white girls? Would it reduce the number of people who've lost their livelihoods, pensions and savings due to the Enron and Worldcom types? Aren't the people who commit those kinds of crimes generally white males? This constant linking of blacks to poverty and crime is misleading and inaccurate and you can get rid of every negro in the country and still have poor people and a full jailhouse (the privatization of prisons will ensure that).

My God! If we want to get hypothetical about things, lets get hypothetical about aborting the children of racists! That would, most certainly, end crime as well!