The answer to that question can surely be found on the W-2’s of cats like McWhorter, Sowell, Williams, et al.

Realistically, I’d be more upset at what Levitt says than Bennett, if for no other reason than more people are likely to listen to what Levitt has to say.

The only reason this quote escaped the vacuum that is far-right radio into the mainstream is that it was so far beyond the pale. The truth is you can listen to, at random, any common talking head on AM radio and they will say something to make you puke. The usual amount of time is approximately 22 minutes.

The Republican core…a good 75-80% of their base has already drunk the kool-aid. No hypothetical ruminations of genocide or ethnic cleansing, no matter how couched in disclaimers, is going to move them off their perch of pious, self-righteous myopia. If a natural disaster wipes off the map pracitically a segment of the country while the most powerful government in the world drags its feet, a few thousand dead babies that don’t look like them that they think would carjack them or rape their daughters later in life isn’t really going to be enough to change hearts and minds.

Nothing short of a pimp slap from the most High God is going to do that at this point.

The key to change is in helping the voiceless faceless VICTIMS of what is being perpetrated in this country realize the power they have a citizens of this country…even second-class ones.

wow…now IM being idealistic….it’s a sickness.

However, what a stupid, stupid example. And, the fact the he chose this example does show what he feels about blacks–that they are the main contributor to the crime rate. That makes him racist. But no one should be under the impression that he advocated genocide.

Anyway, his comments made me hopeful in a sense… Now with this, and the government’s handling of Katrina, maybe the blinders are being pulled off America and they can start to see how the right-wing, crazed conservatives are ruining this country. They are showing us how countries like the middle eastern countries turned into extremists regimes because of religious beliefs.

Thank God he said what he did and everybody heard it. It may have been taken “somewhat” out of context, but the reaction is healthy just the same.

(Well, I tried making paragraphs, but it wouldn’t take,)

On top of the poor state of urban education–which come to think of it, if I were Reagan and he was my Ed. Sec., I’d want to close the damn department, too–we can also thank Bennett for the so-called war on drugs. He was Reagan’s “drug czar” before he took the educational reigns. It makes more sense to me now why drug laws are inherently racist.

I guess they have that “Bennett Touch.”

Is it just me or is the entire religious right and republican politicians coming off the sanity tracks? Everyday one of these crazy groups has somone saying something unbelieveable or getting charged with some crime.

The next round of elections should be fun.