"The American people have one of the highest murder rates in the
industrialized world. Almost all of these people are killed by other
Americans. War hustlers and Bin Laden pimps love to go around screaming,
but 9/11! Three thousand people died on 9/11. Nearly 15,000 Americans
were killed in 2012. Americans perpetrate roughly five 9/11s against
other Americans every year. By the end of this week, more Americans will
be killed by other Americans than were ever killed by ISIL.Why are our politicians ignoring this plague of
American-on-American crime? Why are American leaders not protesting the
cult of death that fills the graveyards of America? Who will bravely
challenge the culture of failure that says that Americans should only be
outraged when Muslims kill Americans? Who will challenge the American
pathology that says that a boy who walks unarmed is acting French?
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."
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates, making a good point.
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