portrait of the artist as a black baby
on portrait of the artist as a black baby with statement by bill bennett
On his 28 September 2005 syndicated show, Bill Bennett's Morning in America, Mr Bennett said, "You could abort
every black baby in the country and your crime rate would go down." He later said that he was positing the
unacceptable in order to make a point, but he kept reiterating his conflation of race, crime and heredity.I found the full text of his statement and combined it with a photo of myself as a baby. I did this to illuminate what
Bennett was calling criminal - what he wanted to destroy. Mr. Bennett's credentials are many (they are enumerated
on the back of the card, along with his website) and he is a great rhetoritician. He did not say "fetus" or even
"unborn child" in his statement. Since he says, "Baby," I made a piece that takes him at his word.
