Hate Speech - To Reduce Crime Rate, Abort All Black Babies

William Bennett, former Reagan cabinet member, calls for "aborting all black babies" to reduce crime


So-called Christian Conservative William Bennett, formerly of the Reagan Department of Education, has called for the FINAL SOLUTION to end crime, which is to abort all black babies. This is exactly what he said on Wednesday, September 28, 2005, on his radio show Morning in America, which is syndicated to 115 radio stations with an estimated 1.25 million listeners per week.

This is exactly the kind of racist rhetoric that divides the country, and serves no purpose other than to offend people. However, it is also a Freudian slip in which this scumbag is telling people what he really thinks about all people of African-American heritage. It is a classic case of Orwellian doublespeak, and beyond the racist content, in the quote below, Bennett is but the latest example of how the NEO-CONS are imploding right before our eyes and ears.

This is SIMPLY OUTRAGEOUS and I urge everyone reading these words to file a complaint with the FCC. At the bottom of this article, I have provided the link to file a complaint with the FCC.

Here below is the article from mediamatters.org:

Media Matters exposes Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"

Wednesday September 28, 2005 - 3:18 PM EST

Addressing a caller's suggestion that the "lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30 years" would be enough to preserve Social Security's solvency, radio host and former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett dismissed such "far-reaching, extensive extrapolations" by declaring that if "you wanted to reduce crime ... if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." Bennett conceded that aborting all African-American babies "would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do," then added again, "but the crime rate would go down."

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Bennett's remark was apparently inspired by the claim that legalized abortion has reduced crime rates, which was posited in the book Freakonomics (William Morrow, May 2005) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. But Levitt and Dubner argued that aborted fetuses would have been more likely to grow up poor and in single-parent or teenage-parent households and therefore more likely to commit crimes; they did not put forth Bennett's race-based argument.

From the September 28 broadcast of Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's Morning in America:

CALLER:"I noticed the national media, you know, they talk a lot about the loss of revenue, or the inability of the government to fund Social Security, and I was curious, and I've read articles in recent months here, that the abortions that have happened since Roe v. Wade, the lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30-something years, could fund Social Security as we know it today. And the media just doesn't -- never touches this at all."

BENNETT:"Assuming they're all productive citizens?"

CALLER:"Assuming that they are. Even if only a portion of them were, it would be an enormous amount of revenue."

BENNETT:"Maybe, maybe, but we don't know what the costs would be, too. I think as -- abortion disproportionately occur among single women? No."

CALLER:"I don't know the exact statistics, but quite a bit are, yeah."

BENNETT:"All right, well, I mean, I just don't know. I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know. I mean, it cuts both -- you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know, they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up. Well --"

CALLER:"Well, I don't think that statistic is accurate."

BENNETT:"Well, I don't think it is either, I don't think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don't know. 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. 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, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky."

Bill Bennett's Morning in America airs on approximately 115 radio stations with an estimated weekly audience of 1.25 million listeners.


Yet another example of the NAZIfication of our nation, this comment was despicable, irresponsible, and completely uncalled for. This is disgraceful, and I urge everyone reading these words to file a complaint with the FCC over this NAZI's inciteful HATE-SPEECH.

This is also an example of ELITE BIAS against the underclass, in which these NEO-CON NAZI'S would like nothing better to get RID of all people of color.

This is the type of thing that makes me very sad for how much this country has been destroyed, while tens of millions of people were sitting in front of their televisions, watching nonsense, instead of learning how to prptect their families from the coming onslaught vis-a-vis the staged World War III that is coming between AmeriKa and RED CHINA.

When I hear of things like this, I am ashamed to be an American, and I realize WHY it is the world hates the USA so much. We are being ruled by liars, thiefs, and war criminals --- who hide their crimes behind the National Security Act of 1947.

Another thing I would like to point out is in regards to Bennett's comment:

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.

This is showing what he really thinks, and these are the people who refer to the poor and economically disadvantaged as the USELESS EATERS, to borrow a phrase from NAZI WAR CRIMINAL Henry Kissinger.

Don't believe me? Listen to the clip for yourself:

MP3 - Bill Bennett: "abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"

This is repugnant, and I am going to write to the FCC to file a complaint, and I invite all of my readers to do the same. This is MUCH MORE offensive than ANYTHING Howard Stern ever said.

To throw even more gasoline on the fire, Bennett posted the following on his website:

From the Desk of William J. Bennett September 30, 2005

"On Wednesday, a caller to my radio show proposed the idea that one good argument for the pro-life position would be that if we didn't have abortions, Social Security would be solvent. I stated my doubts about such a thesis, as well as my opposition to such a form of argument (the audio of the call is available at my Website: bennettmornings.com).

"I then stated that such extrapolations of this argument can cut both ways, and cited the current bestseller, Freakonomics, which discusses the authors' thesis that abortion reduces crime.

"Then, putting my philosophy professor's hat on, I went on to reveal the limitations of such arguments by showing the absurdity in another such argument, along the same lines. I entertained what law school professors call 'the Socratic method' and what I would hope good social science professors still use in their seminars. In so doing, I suggested a hypothetical analogy while at the same time saying the proposition I was using about blacks and abortion was 'impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible,' just to ensure those who would have any doubt about what they were hearing, or for those who tuned in to the middle of the conversation.

"The issues of crime and race have been on many people's minds, and tongues, for the past month or so--in light of the situation in New Orleans; and the issues of race, crime, and abortion are well aired and ventilated in articles, the academy, the think tank community, and public policy. Indeed the whole issue of crime and race is not new in social science, nor popular literature. One of the authors of Freakonomics, himself, had an extended exchange on the discussion of these issues on the Internet some years back--which was also much debated in the think tank community in Washington.

"A thought experiment about public policy, on national radio, should not have received the condemnations it has. Anyone paying attention to this debate should be offended by those who have selectively quoted me, distorted my meaning, and taken out of context the dialogue I engaged in this week. Such distortions from 'leaders' of organizations and parties is a disgrace not only to the organizations and institutions they serve, but to the First Amendment.

"In sum, let me reiterate what I had hoped my long career had already established: that I renounce all forms of bigotry--and that my record in trying to provide opportunities for, as well as save the lives of, minorities in this country stands up just fine."


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Media Matters exposes Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"