“You could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down.”
– William Bennett on his show Morning in America
When conservative talk show host William J. Bennett posited this genocidal crime fighting strategy last week, he may have intrigued his listeners but he outraged everyone else in America. And, after a torrent of protest and criticism, he only added insult to injury by declaring – rather smugly and self-righteously – that he proposed it as “a thought experiment” for his (fed up with black crime) audience. But even President Bush was so outraged that he issued a public statement condemning Bennett’s “musings” as “not appropriate.” (Nevertheless, I feel constrained to point out that saying Bennett is a big fat idiot who should choke on his food and die is not appropriate; whereas, saying black children should be aborted is not only morally reprehensible but also unforgivable.)
William J. Bennett, a bloviating moral crusader – recently exposed as a sinful gambler and now condemned as a sociopath – who finds the notion of killing black babies intellectually stimulating
On its face, one might expect such perverse and puerile race-baiting from a radio shock jock like Howard Stern; not from someone like Bennett who professes serious intellectual and moral bona fides. After all, for the last 2 decades, Bennett has been the intellectual and moral deacon of the Republican Party. During tours of duty Secretary of Education and National Drug Policy Czar, he led the conservative agenda to “bring God back in public schools and make Christianity the guiding principle of life in America.” And, to ensure that everyone got his holier-than-thou message, he wrote his own bible called The Book of Virtues to offer Americans a moral code of conduct for the new millennium.
But then, a few years ago, Bennett fell from grace; which, of course, is the inevitable fate of all moralizing hypocrites. The “sin” he committed was preaching the virtues of family values and personal responsibilities whilst squandering his family’s income by living the high life of a gambling junkie. Indeed, between spending time with showgirls at casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, it’s a wonder Bennett had anytime left to spend with his wife at home in idyllic suburbia.
To his credit, however, when Bennett’s secret vices were exposed, he confessed his sins – “with a broken and contrite heart” – before God and man. And he led us to believe that, through prayer, his demons were exorcised and his mind cleansed of such iniquity. Hallelujah!
But my Lord, what are we to make of this patently immoral and, worse still, brazenly unchristian sermon about aborting black babies to reduce crime. After all, it’s about as logical as suggesting we kill white babies to reduce HIV/AIDS (since white homosexual men are more often the carriers and infecting agents of this deadly virus in America). Moreover, in sermonising this way, Bennett conspires, intellectually, with his listeners about committing the cardinal sin of (ethnic cleansing) abortions which, according to his bible, is tantamount to murder.
Indeed, Bennett’s strategy for reducing crime seems more in the spirit of the tyrannical Arab King Herod who – hoping to kill the baby Jesus – decreed the extermination of every Jewish infant to protect his crown. Whereas, if he were a real Christian, clearly Bennett would have asked: What would Jesus do?
Therefore, instead of issuing a defiant statement trying to defend the intellectual fatuousness of what he said, Bennett should confess that “the devil made me do it” – just as he did when he was caught gambling like a fiend. Because even as a “thought experiment,” what he hypothesized reflects a truly reprobate mind too at ease with racial bigotry and moral hypocrisy.
For now though, if professed radio shock jocks like Opie and Anthony can be fired for advocating sex acts in St Patrick’s Cathedral, then by his own moral imperative, Bennett should be fired for advocating killing babies – even black ones.
Yet he remains gainfully employed by the Salem Radio Network. But click here to help his employer see the wisdom of telling Bennett to repent or go to hell!
Note: If a penitent Bennett or any other Christian conservative wants to engage in a serious discussion about how race affects crime in America, then that would be a talk show worth listening to.
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