Why is Bill Bennett Clueless?

With his recent remarks that:

"I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"

it appears that as an ego-centric man who loves to lecture others (see his book “The Book Of Virtues”), he has an amazing lack of empathy and understanding for diverse cultures within our society. While he did try to back pedal a little by stating that the abortions would be:

“an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky” ,

one still has to wonder if all of his faculties are functioning properly. If society aborted all white babies – or Hispanic babies, the crime rate would also go down. Why did he single out black babies? One could reasonably surmise that there is some latent hostility towards blacks or some repressed feeling that blacks are truly less honorable than whites. Maybe he just doesn’t like people who are not white. In a typical style for him and other so-called moral/religious conservatives he attacked his critics rather than looking honestly at his own failings.

Isn’t it time he just faded away and why does anyone listen to him or his ilk?