La Shawn Barber and John Zmirak have more on the "controversy." La Shawn, as a black woman, is hard to ignore on a topic like this, despite what you think about Bennett. Zmirak offers three "commandments" on contemporary racial discourse:
1) Thou shalt ignore any statistics that cast racial minorities, even provisionally, in an unflattering light.2) Thou shalt condemn anyone who mentions these statistics as a racist, even if you know that he is not a racist. The truth is not important. The important thing is the taboo.
3) Thou mayst entertain and promote racist fantasies of eliminating poor babies, Hispanic babies, and black babies in the womb, so long as you don’t mention their race. It’s okay to kill them, but not to mention their race.
On the subject, I don't know if anyone caught Fox News Sunday's roundtable segment. Brit Hume usually offers common sensical logic to Juan Williams' visceral spewing, and this was no more apparent than yesterday's dicussion over the Bennett flap. Williams was beside himself on what Bennett's supposed meaning was (killing black babies, black criminality) -- and Mara Liasson assisted him in that regard, amazingly -- but thankfully Hume was there to inject much needed common sense. Listening to Williams, geez -- he'd be banned from La Shawn's place for getting completely off topic!
UPDATE (10/4 at 6:51pm): Joseph Walther, a Delaware blogger with whom Hube once appeared on radio, weighs in on the Bennett matter.
UPDATE 2 (10/5 at 4:14): Ward Connerly chimes in on the controversy.