Finally, a Little Bit of Outrage

Pretty much everybody's already commented on William Bennett's recent discussion of blacks, abortion, and crime, but since when is that a reason to stop me from piling on? If you haven't seen it, Bennett, in the cause of a larger point, said, "You could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down." He immediately dismissed the idea as "an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do," but the damage had been done. Bill doesn't quite seem to get that people are outraged at his link between black babies and crime rather than some suggestion that the babies might actually be aborted. Even the Prez has distanced himself from the remarks, at least according to Scott McClellan. So it looks like maybe casual racism will not soon become a virtue.