Bill Bennett shouldn't think out loud

When you think about it, aborting all white babies would lower the crime rates, too. In fact, I've heard speculations that lower crime numbers may be partially due to the number of abortions in the past 20 years. But is reducing crime a valid basis for adopting a policy of abortion on demand?

That was probably Bennett's point. Maybe he threw in the "black" in order to demonstrate how obnoxious such an argument could be. And it's a valid point, because it's exactly the kind of reasoning used to justify the Holocaust. He just put it into more contemporary terms, as it might be used by modern Nazi types. But he failed to catch how it would sound out of context. Most casual listeners wouldn't have been following the point about justifying abortion very closely, but that phrase aborting all black babies was bound to catch the ears of listeners, just as kill all Jews would have.

Of course, having politicians and the media ready to take their side any time against any Republican, logic is not a requirement. An unfortunate side effect of using federal power to overrule state and local governments in the Jim Crow states, is that anybody who doesn't constantly speak of blacks with the "not that there's anything wrong with being black" kind of self-editing, will incur resentment for not being sufficiently sincere in treating blacks like anyone else. In fact, treating them like anyone else will get you branded as a crypto-racist. This is exactly what Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton trade on in their discrimination extortion rackets. It's so easy to give anybody bad PR just because it hasn't gone out adjusted its workforce to the right mix of races, that just the accusation can ruin one's business.

It isn't safe to be too candid these days. Eventually, the rest of society will get fed up with this extortion, as is happening when blacks bring up reparatiosn for slavery, and they'll have to accept that there is only so much the law can change. After that, it's the individual who is responsible for lifting himself.