Earthside Comments: The best the Bush press spokesman can come up with is that Bill Bennett's racist remarks were "inappropriate". Don't ever be fooled by these people; while many of the Bushites and radical Republicans may not be old fashioned white-sheet, pointy-hatted bigots, they still harbor genuine prejudice against people of color. That the word "inappropriate" is as tough as they can get betrays their real thinking.
Link: Bennett: Black Abortions Would Lower Crime | Associated Press
The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William Bennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies. "The president believes the comments were not appropriate," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. Bennett, on his radio show, "Morning in America," was answering a caller's question when he took issue with the hypothesis put forth in a recent book that one reason crime is down is that abortion is up. "But 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," said Bennett, author of "The Book of Virtues." He went on to call that "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."
Link: HUD Chief Foresees a 'Whiter' Big Easy | Washington Times
A Bush Cabinet officer predicted this week that New Orleans likely will never again be a majority black city, and several black officials are outraged. Alphonso R. Jackson, secretary of housing and urban development, during a visit with hurricane victims in Houston, said New Orleans would not reach its pre-Katrina population of "500,000 people for a long time," and "it's not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again."
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