Aborting Our Way to a Better Life

So the former U.S. secretary of education suggests that the way to lower the crime rate is to abort 'every black baby' in America. What's the big fuss?

Is not William Bennett's final solution to the crime problem a logical - albeit cataclysmic - conclusion for those who consider African-Americans a criminal type? Much evidence suggests that this sentiment is held by a large if not majority segment to whom Bennett merely gave voice. Unlike Herr Bennett, however, most Americans will not slip and reveal themselves in conversation with strangers, and thus their deeply held opinions rarely show up in polls. So we must rely on anecdotes and the life experience of the black citizenry who are often suspiciously viewed - and treated - as criminals by their white brethren.

... Among civilians, the unannounced appearance of a solitary black in a room, or on a dark street, is enough to set strangers rocking back on their heels and clutching their handbags.

What about the lone black male professional in the elevator or on the railway platform?

Such encounters loose such a panic as to provoke a reactionary malady among black men. They create coping mechanisms designed to reassure whites that they are indeed not criminals. Some look passively at the floor, others strike up a conversation, being careful to remove the bass from their voice. One well-known journalist admitted that when awaiting a train with a white stranger on a rail platform, he would sing a few bars of an opera, I assume in falsetto.

It's true. We do develop coping mechanisms to reassure whites. I, myself, jab my gun into their kidneys and demand money. I find there's nothing so reassuring to whites as the fulfillment of a stereotype.

And for the record, Payne gives a misleading statement here. He says, "Despite the supermarket of crime conducted by Halliburton, serial killers, polluters, sitting politicians and the interlocking Mafia families, the overwhelming majority of offenders who get slammed into U.S. prisons are blacks and Latinos." While true, blacks and Latinos do make up an overwhelming majority of offenders, that statement masks a larger truth. Neither group by itself makes up more than a majority of the prison population. You can't say that about whites, who make up 56.8% of the inmates in this country, according to the Bureau of Prisons.

So if you really wanted to take a bite out of crime by aborting one race's zygotes, you'd want to go white here.