RaisingKaine.com Takes on Bill Bennett's Outrageous Statement

Check out Raising Kaine for it's excellent article about how the smug, pseudo-virtuist Bill Bennett has scored a new low in punditry. Said Bennett, former Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan and Drug "Czar" under George H. W. Bush, on his talk show: "...I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime..You could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." He did add that would be "reprehensible." But the attributing of crime to race, rather than poverty, shows how little knowledge about the subject and how little virtue Bill Bennett actually has. The ghost of Bennett's supposed "white supremacy" rides again.

It defies human, religious and American values to scapegoat the poor. And it defies the teachings of most American and world religions to speak of race this way. With some of the wealthiest corporations not even allowing their working-poor employees a lunch break, much less a living wage or health insurance, the "virtue" of some Republican mouthpieces and policy makers --and more than a few CEOs -- have much maturing to do. How anyone can buy a book on "virtues" from that whited sepulcher is a mystery. Add Bennet to the list of "Republicans Who are Hurting America." It's a very long list.