I don't think Bennett was truely suggesting that all blacks should be aborted. Like GW, he has a gift for saying stupid things and once again he did. I also think the media and opposition have spun the story to their benefit. That said, I think it reveals racisim in his belief system.
His political career was over anyway. This snafu just tamps down the soil on his freshly covered grave.
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." John Stuart Mill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde
He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.
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