Sterilize bad parents?

Apparently, crime committed by youth is the fault of their parents. And not only that, because of this, we should sterilize the mothers of these children. What solid logic.

A City Council member, reacting to a video store holdup believed to have been carried out by children, says parents who can’t properly care for their kids should be sterilized.
“We pick up stray animals and spay them,” Larry Shirley said in a story published Saturday by The Post and Courier of Charleston. “These mothers need to be spayed if they can’t take care of theirs. Once they have a child and it’s running the street, to let them continue to have children is totally unacceptable.”

Spay?! It is pretty clear to me here who need not be reproducing. Because surely it is not lack of resources, poor educational access and a racist and sexist system that is producing the *criminal* children. It is young, poor, probably non-white moms. Funny how racist, classist and sexist logic works. The man sees a store get robbed and his immediate reaction is to blame the mothers, not actually think about what is really causing inequity, or how he himself is implicated in it.
The genius continues. . .

“What we’ve got is a failure in society, whether it’s in Mount Pleasant with yuppie parents or whether it’s on the East Side with poor crackhead parents,” he said, referring to areas in and around Charleston.

Yes and our failure in society has nothing to do with our failure in leadership.
via AP.