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Bill Bennett is former Education Secretary, drug czar and head of the National Endowment for the Humanities under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush He is currently a political commentator for CNN.
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"Four percent of American citizens are black males, but they are 35 percent of murder victims."
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Gates incident spurs discussion on race, crime:
Pundits are talking after last week's arrest of African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. We check their facts.
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