When I woke up on Friday morning realizing that another month has passed me by, it seemed as if it was going to be like any other day. Now, that I was unemployed, my day would more than likely consist of scouring the online want-ads and only pay 1/2 attention to the monotonous drown of morning television in the background.
My attention was being pulled away from job hunting as the news caster was repeating words I thought went out of fashion in 1957. They were reporting the following
Mr Bennett, who held prominent posts in the administrations of former presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, told a caller to his syndicated radio talk show Wednesday: "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. That would be an impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down," he said.
I was immediately transported in time to the early 60's. Visions of poodle skirts, fresh baked cookies, moms homemade apple pie. Gas was 10 cents a gallon and cigarettes were 5 cents a pack. Schools were segregated and Rosa Parks was still moving to the back of the bus. Huh? What? Wait a minute, I shook my head, at once I was smacked in the face with the reality that it is 2005, and this man had just proved to me that we had still not moved very far up the evolutionary ladder.
How is it in 2005 A Neanderthal is walking around, and even more shocking he has his own radio show, where on a whim, he can proselytize hate speech.
I starting really thinking about his statement, giving it an honest once over, removing the sentence from the shock value. I realized that this man is wrong on so many levels. Lets look at a few.
1. His assumption that blacks commit more crime, that the rest of society, does have slight merit. What he fails to recognize is the root causes for a large majority of blacks committing crimes. Poverty is one of the leading factors. Who is poor? A large portion of the black community is poor, at or just above poverty.
2. Indifference. We often forget that a large portion of America has a whole is in poverty. We were recently reminded of this fact, during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. People were saying that why didn't they leave. If you are so poor you can't afford a car, and everyone around you is just a poor, how do you get out?
3. Drugs I think this factor speaks for itself. Although, it would seem that this is a subject for a whole nother blog. Specifically the conspiracy???
If Mr. Bennett really wanted to reduce crime, he should focus on reducing poverty.
Mr Bennett also fails to realize that Whites have cornered that market on serial killing, and pedophilia.
We have people who are homeless, starving, teen pregnancies, AIDS, etc, and Mr. Bennett finds time to be a racist.
IDIOTS ARE EVERYWHERE
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