kelticwizard wrote:
Do white people and black people share the same history?
Be aware that, aside from being sold as chattel, they were later used in experiments for syphilis, quite against their will.
Consider this before you get on your high horse making pronouncements and statements of priciple.
Finn d'Abuzz wrote:And your point is?
This is not a point to be debated. Be it slavery, lynching, syphilis experiments or merely being forced to sit at the back of the bus, African-Americans, in general, and historically, have gotten a pretty raw deal in America.
And you are pretending not to be able to understand that people who had to endure being used as unwitting human guinea pigs in syphilis experiments, to top all the other attempts to drive home their inferior status in America for so many years, might react somewhat more strongly to a suggestion about having all their babies aborted than other groups?
You actually have difficulty grasping that concept?
Not that the other groups wouldn't have the right to be outraged if Bennett had used them.
Hypothetical or not, disclaimers of "of course it would be reprehensible" or not, the statement was a loathesome way to make a point.
It might be somewhat worse for blacks, considering their unique history, but to make such a comment about any group is beyond the realm of acceptable public discourse. I would be against any laws making such a comment illegal, but I would expect Bennett to be bounced from whatever station he broadcasts from.
