Why Black Babies?

The downward spiral of puzzling behavior from former Education Secretary William Bennett continues. Having earlier copped to a gambling problem, the czar of morals now finds himself caught up in a controversy caused by his radio comment about aborting black babies to lower the crime rate.

Bennett has defended his remarks as a thought experiment, but what is most troubling is that targeting black babies was the first thought to occur to him about how to fight crime. Cecelie S. Berry ponders the former secretary's fixation on black depravity here.