Thursday, September 29, 2005
 on a day when the instapundit convienently glossed over the fact that his (white) representative inconceiveably tried, failed, and then complained when he was denied membership to Tennessee's Black Legislative Caucus, strangely this wasn't the most embarrassing and head-scratching moment from a Republican on Wednesday.
Rep. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) probably thought he had won the most dumbassed statement of the day when he complained about his rebuff to the 18-member caucus, but he would have been wrong.
On any other day saying something as ignorant as "My understanding is that the KKK doesn’t even ban members by race," would have earned the freshman lawmaker from the Instapundit's city the dubious distinction of being the day's dingiest dumbass, especailly after adding that the most famous racist American hatemongers, the Klan, "has less racist bylaws" than the black lawmakers' group.
But the racist of the day, infact, has to go to Fox News Contributor, and former Drug Czar Bill Bennett who yesterday on his nationally-syndicated radio show said that if all Black pregnancies were aborted, US crime would go down.
That's right, Ronald Reagan's former Secretary of Education went there
on the radio
for everyone to hear,
or in mediamatters' case, to transcribe: 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. oh, and they also have an mp3
bennett however doesn't speculate on how less crime there'd be if you aborted every white baby, or every Christian baby, or every baby from republican parents -- which is the flaw to his arguement and the essence of his racism. for some reason he simply chose to single-out Black babies, even though Blacks only account for 11% of the nation.
if one was to take bennett's approach, that of aborting children to prevent crime, why not abort all children, or all baby boys. surely you'd nip in the bud far more potential criminals that way.
 but instead the author of the Book of Virtues, The Moral Compass, and The Children's Book of Faith targeted, in his example, only Black fetuses.
was it a Black baby who grew up to be the House Majority Leader who was indicted today for allegedly money laundering aka conspiracy today?
was it a Black baby who grew up to be the Senate Majority Leader who was allegedly given insider information which prompted him to dump his stock before it dramatically fell, prompting the SEC to formally begin its investigation today?
according to Bennett's eye-opening theory, if those men were aborted as children those alleged crimes wouldnt have happened and thus the crime rate would have gone down.
racism is a tricky thing, he's right. you have to open your mouth, stick your foot in there, and shove it deep down your throat while singling out one minority race to unjustly stereotype in a negative, and oftentimes, violent way.
the instapundit's representative displayed the ignorant side of racism, but Bill Bennett showed the horrifyingly eerie and cruel side of racist thought that many thought was overreaching to even bring up during the tragedies in New Orleans.
but here we have two more examples of right wing white men in positions of power spreading their ignorance and hate so casually and boldly that they dont even blink.
it's tricky to be a horse's ass.
We are not thugs we don't use drugs but you assume on your own
They offer coke and lots of dope but we just leave it alone
It's like that y'all (y'all), but we don't quit
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