The Problem with Bill Bennett’s Words
Armando over at the DailyKos has posted on “the power of words” — Bill Bennett’s offensive use of them and why Brad DeLong and Matt Yglesias were wrong to give Bennett a free pass.
But there is still something missing from the discussion. Buried in Bennett’s misguided example, buried in his “taken out of context defense” is the reason the issue of poverty will never be addressed or solved by the Bennetts of this world.
By directly relating race to crime and defending it as the truth while calling it morally reprehensible — Bennett furthered the cause of racial profiling — Bill Bennett I dare say has never been pulled over by the police simply because he was driving in the “wrong” neighborhood. Millions of African Americans — innocent African Americans — have been pulled over exactly because of the presumption of guilt Bennett gave voice to once again in his ill chosen example.
Worse — there is a direct link to crime — its called poverty. And this explains why the Bennetts of the world will never help solve poverty — or crime for that matter.
If you are an American who when you hear the word “Crime” you immediately thing “Black” — you are undeniably racist — you are one of the reasons things like racial profiling exist in 2005 in the United States of America. You may think your racism is a benign shallow racism — but there is no such thing.
Poverty is the link to crime — if you believe that — you might be motivated to solve the problem of poverty.
Yes blacks are disproportionately poorer than whites. The answer is to do something real about poverty.
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