We hear what we want to hear–We defend what we want to defend (AUDIO INCLUDED)
on October 1st, 2005 at 12:39 pmI know many people have already addressed this rather ridiculous issue, so I will add my two cents into the mix.
First, here is the transcript of Bennett’s conversation:
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CALLER: I noticed the national media, you know, they talk a lot about the loss of revenue, or the inability of the government to fund Social Security, and I was curious, and I’ve read articles in recent months here, that the abortions that have happened since Roe v. Wade, the lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30-something years, could fund Social Security as we know it today. And the media just doesn’t — never touches this at all.
BENNETT: Assuming they’re all productive citizens?
CALLER: Assuming that they are. Even if only a portion of them were, it would be an enormous amount of revenue.
BENNETT: Maybe, maybe, but we don’t know what the costs would be, too. I think as — abortion disproportionately occur among single women? No.
CALLER: I don’t know the exact statistics, but quite a bit are, yeah.
BENNETT: All right, well, I mean, I just don’t know. I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don’t know. I mean, it cuts both – you know, one of the arguments in this book Freakonomics that they make is that the declining crime rate, you know, they deal with this hypothesis, that one of the reasons crime is down is that abortion is up. Well –
CALLER: Well, I don’t think that statistic is accurate.
BENNETT: Well, I don’t think it is either, I don’t think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don’t know. 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. 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.
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What’s crazy is that many are concluding that the last sentence (that I bolded) was his attempt to save face.
If it were true (again, you have to hear the actual interview. Nothing gave me the impression that he caught himself and was trying to do some verbal patch work) then according to the haste logic we are using, Bennett is a racist no matter what. If he would have left that last sentence off, he would be a racist and we would have called him on it. He added it and he is still a racist.
For starters, Bennett’s hypothesis is based on a point raised in the outrageous book Freakonomics. Instead of failing to mention this fact, many who…
#hate conservatives regardless
#dislike whites and are at a rush to point out their mistakes
are too willing to buy the excerpted mainstream media coverage on the issue.
Steven D. Levitt and Steven J. Dubner (author of the book Freakonomics) also have a blog. They also partially agree with Bennett’s remarks [link]
If you ask me, these guys are enjoying the free publicity at the expense of Bennett’s comments. Why have we not seen anybody questioning their reasoning? Again, this all points back to our poor reading habits. Sound bites and visuals are all we want to comprehend.
As far as the crime rate goes amongst blacks, I have already discussed that issue:
There goes the neighborhood
Again, after both hearing the radio conversation and reading the transcript, I do not see anywhere where he is calling for the elimination of all black babies.
That is what many want him to say because they need something to justify their gripe against whites–even if it is an excerpt.
Bennett could have also suggested that if all Mexican babies are aborted, illegal immigration would go down, or perhaps to abort all white babies to reduce white against black discrimination. He didn’t. Personally, if I was white with a talk show, I would not have even mentioned this hypothesis simply because of gross over reaction that we are seeing today.
While many blacks want Katrina to be the sticking point for America to see just how “bad” the poor have it in this country, WE refuse to use this current situation to discuss the high levels of crime that take place in our own communities. How many black blogs/websites do you know of that specifically discuss the effects of black-on-black crime and how it is demoralizing and destructive to our race (perhaps someone should start a string of posts that feature the obituaries of our young black children that have been killed by another black individual. Naah! That will be too “in your face”. Circulating stories about white cops killing black kids get more millage with us)? Try bringing up the real statistics of this reality and instead of healthy discussion as to how we can reverse the problem, folks will spend a majority of the time challenging the actual numbers. We all say stupid and sometimes controversial things from time to time. People like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Farrakhan and others have all said some very spiteful things about whites–yet for some reason they are justified. Many of us will even go to great lengths to expound on “what they actually meant”. For a white male that is a conservative, just an excerpt will do.
This is a very opportune time for us to develop some real-world solutions on how to eradicate the crime rate in our community and we are blowing it…again!
In the end, Bennett’s ratings will go up and he will move on to other topics.
In the meantime, many of our young men and women are still getting picked off. Forget Bennett, what can do?
The sister of a friend of mine was killed recently in Jamaica over drugs. For some reason, I do not think this whole Bennett issue would have been beneficial at the funeral.
