Bennett One More Time (Let’s stick with what he said, not the racist baggage of the critics.)

By Andrew C. McCarthy
National Review Online

The most obvious problem with the Bill Bennett controversy last week is the p.c. aspect of it — namely, that some topics, such as the nexus between race and crime, simply cannot be discussed without people of good will being painted as bigots...

Central is Bennett's comment that the overall crime rate would be reduced if every black baby were aborted. (Which, he made abundantly clear, he was not recommending and thinks a morally reprehensible notion.)

Now, let's leave aside that if Bennett had his druthers there would be no abortions of black babies, and that his most vitriolic critics are pro-abortion folks who would be content to see all black babies aborted if that were their mothers' "choice."