** Bill Bennett's remarks about how aborting every black baby would effectively reduce the crime rate (see previous post) brand him as a flaming racist, albeit a sanctimonious one. This former government official whose reputation was built around "
family values" blatantly acknowledges that he believes some families have no value at all. The religiosity he, and the so-called religious right, espouses apparently doesn't include the biblical description of man being created in the image and likeness of God (
Gen 1:27). Or else it attempts to correct God's sloppy handiwork by eliminating a few duds, huge batches of them - 10% or more of the US population. Crimestoppers like Bennett certainly know the efficient ways to manage it - using the tools of
genocide. Why does this moral idiot have a
radio program - and who listens to him? And why? Could it be that we are truly sinking into a moral tar pit, led by swaggering moralists like Bennett - and his audience?
Cecelie S. Berry delivers eloquent but reasoned excoriation in
this Salon.com article, excerpted below:
There has been among African-Americans a lurking suspicion that the family values movement is not about values but about how some groups, blacks in chief, are morally void, and therefore expendable. Is it any wonder that we postulate, when this view is popularized by conservative leaders, that it might help explain why inner-city schools remain segregated, underfunded breeding grounds for delinquency; why government policies make prisons a better investment than early education programs; why the death penalty, though embattled by DNA evidence, still remains unbowed in many states? And is it so surprising for us to ask whether the racist assumptions of Bennett and men like him were behind the federal government's dilatory rescue of the overwhelmingly black and poor residents of New Orleans?
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