Ta-Nehisi Coates dissects Mayor 9/11: "The real problem is American-on-American crime"

The Gospel of Rudy Giuliani
Why is no one talking about American-on-American crime?
TA-NEHISI COATESNOV 24 2014, 11:28 AM ET

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I demand a TSA checkpoint at every shopping mall to shield Americans against Americans. I demand drones to kill Americans before they kill other Americans. I demand that American leaders stop pretending that American morgues and American cemeteries are full of young men because of jihadis. The evidence is clear—American-on-American violence is a silent killer that only Americans can stop. American criminality is now so rampant that it must always be the only topic of any conversation. Let us not speak of any act of international terrorism until American terrorism has been wholly vanquished.

I realize that uttering these hard truths will find me ostracized from an America where my brave stand and incredible courage will not be appreciated. But this great truth, this high principle, must be spoken in every corner of our country. To the limit the Gospel of Giuliani to black people would imply that we regard them as separate category of humanity, fit to be judged by a separate standard. And we wouldn't want that.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/the-gospel-of-rudy-giuliani/380498/