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Related: About this forumFran Lebowitz: When Giuliani was mayor an unarmed black man was killed every 5 minutes
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/fran-lebotwitz-when-giuliani-was-mayor-an-unarmed-black-man-was-killed-every-5-minutes/Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz: When Giuliani was mayor an unarmed black man was killed every 5 minutes
Scott Kaufman
21 Feb 2015 at 10:25 ET
During the panel discussion on Real Time last night, Bill Maher spoke with public intellectual Fran Lebowitz, director Rob Reiner, and Bill Nye The Science Guy about the rationale behind former New York City mayor Rudy Giulianis comments about Obama not loving America.
Lebowitz said that when Giuliani ran for mayor of New York City in 1993, his ads said vote for me and itll be 1952 again. He is just soaked in nostalgia. Thats what he meant when he said Obama doesnt love the country the way we love the county.
What does it mean, Maher asked, that Republicans want to go back to an era, the Fifties, where America was run by socialism?
~snip~
No, Lebowitz interjected, when Giuliani was the mayor, every five minutes an unarmed black guy was getting shot in the back. It was always a different excuse from the cops he had something in his hand, I thought it was a gun, and it was a candy bar. It was a key chain.
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Fran Lebowitz: When Giuliani was mayor an unarmed black man was killed every 5 minutes (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Feb 2015
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(10,909 posts)1. Every 5 minutes an unarmed black guy getting shot in the back: that's 105,120 / year
12 per hour * 8760 hours / year = 105,120 / year
Add to that the number of armed black guys getting shot in the back. Plus the number shot elsewhere besides the back. And all this in just one city, albeit the largest city in the U.S.
Boomer
(4,168 posts)2. This is called hyperbole
It was a figure of speech, a rhetorical flourish. You're taking it literally.
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(10,909 posts)3. I knew that, and no, I didn't take it literally. nm
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)4. We all know that it's hyperbole, but it's
presented as if a valid statistic. When someone makes such a vast, and frankly ignorant, overstatement, I tend to discount everything else that person says.
In another thread about that statement I likewise did the math. And then wonder how it was that any black men still lived in NYC.