Heather Mac Donald: Trump’s Truth-Telling about ‘American Carnage’. What is a better word for the more than 6,000 black men shot dead on the streets in 2015?

[rangerrebew]

Heather Mac Donald: Trump’s Truth-Telling about ‘American Carnage’
What is a better word for the more than 6,000 black men shot dead on the streets in 2015?
1.24.2017
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The media have been clucking their disapproval at the “darkness” of Donald Trump’s inaugural speech. “Uniquely dark vision of the U.S.,” read a New York Times headline on Saturday. The Washington Post reported that “Trump delivered a dark inaugural address” — adding, somewhat contradictorily — “in which he pledged fealty to all Americans.” A New York Times op-ed by a former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton decried Trump’s “dark, counterfactual picture of ‘American carnage’: an economy in decline, communities under siege by ‘the crime and the gangs and the drugs.’” A New York Times editorial, “President Trump’s Dystopian America,” scoffed at how President Trump “waxed apocalyptic in imagining the prevalence of crime in the nation’s cities. ‘This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,’ [Mr. Trump] vowed,” the Times wrote incredulously.

The press unleashed an identical outpouring of criticism for Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, which was likewise said to adopt a counterfactually bleak view of the nation.

Are you scratching your head and wondering, Since when did liberals and the Left embrace a sunny, light-filled vision of the United States? If so, you’re not misremembering things. These are the same liberal elites who have been telling us for decades that America is shot through with an ever-expanding array of hatreds and injustice that disenfranchise large portions of the population and force them to live in fear.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/heather-mac-donald-trumps-truth-telling-about-american-carnage

[goatprairie]

It's about time Americans, especially black Americans, knew the truth.....the tremendous annual carnage on the streets of many American cities is that of black males being killed by other black males.
It's only until very recently that national and city homicide stats concerning blacks were actually reported, and that's mostly only in conservative media outlets like FOX News or by conservative columnists. In the last one hundred years American black males have killed approx. three quarters of a million other black males.
Of course, many black Americans still hold the delusion that black people by the hundreds are mercilessly hunted down and killed by racist white cops every day.
The truth is black males slaughter other black males at staggering rates compared to other demographics.
For obvious reasons the media refrains from publishing the truth and continues to promote the lie of the innocent black male persecuted and murdered at will by racist white policemen.
That ought to be one task of Trump.... tell black Americans the truth. They, themselves are responsible for their present state in America, good or bad. Evil Whitey is the least of their problems.

[dfwgator]

How will the BLM types respond?

[geronl]

There is no stomping on the Constitution that Trump could do that the cult would criticize

[TomSea]

Half the country, that's some cult. And less California, pretty much the nation.

[TomSea]

I hope they send the Feds in; if these municipalities can't solve it by themselves.

[geronl]

Donald Trump: "Sure, I Might Use Nuclear Weapons In Europe. Hell, I Might Use Them In Chicago..."

or he'll just invade it.