{"id":4969,"date":"2013-06-10T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2013-06-10T06:34:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T06:34:19","slug":"trump-says-we-must-stop-being-so-politically-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4969","title":{"rendered":"Trump says we must stop being so politically correct"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Donald Trump added to his portfolio of race-based insults, citing figures provided by Fox News Channel anchor Bill O\u2019Reilly as proof that \u201cthe overwhelming amount of violent crime in our major cities is committed by blacks and Hispanics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must stop being so politicially correct,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cMust tell it like it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

His first tweet on the subject said this: “According to Bill O’Reilly, 80% of all the shootings in New York City are blacks-if you add Hispanics, that figure goes to 98%. 1% white.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, O\u2019Reilly did reference that statistic Tuesday during a panel discussion about violence in a Philadelphia school on his O\u2019Reilly Factor<\/em> show,\u00a0 noting \u201cIn New York City, 80 percent of all the shootings in the nation’s largest town are blacks. If you add Hispanic shooters, 98 percent of all the shootings in New York City are minority, less than one percent are white. So you’re seeing not only violence in the schools, but then it translates out into the streets almost exclusively from the minority precincts.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Reilly seemed to be referencing a report from the New York City Police Department<\/a> titled \u201cCrime and Enforcement Activity in New York City.\u201d Tabulating crimes in New York City by race, listing shootings suspects as black 74.7% of the time, 21.9% were Hispanic, and 2.7% were white.<\/p>\n

Of course, New York City\u2019s population is a bit more diverse than the nation; 25% black, 27.5% Hispanic, 2.1% multiethnic and 44.6% white. Also, these are crime suspects, not those who have been convicted of any crime, and their race was likely determined by police, with no guarantee of total accuracy.<\/p>\n

One expert suggested police released the figures to show w<\/a>hy their controversial stop-and-frisk policy so often targets people of color. But some experts say police create animosity in communities with an aggressive stop-and-frisk policy, which make it less likely law enforcement can get information from residents.<\/p>\n

“Our major cities\u201d and violent crime is a black and Hispanic problem. It\u2019s also likely true that a overwhelming amount of white collar crime in New York is committed by white people.<\/p>\n

There is no doubt that violent crime is a serious problem in communities of color. But connecting it to race in such a blunt and unfair fashion seems more about blaming certain kinds of people than solving the problem.<\/p>\n

As always, it remains puzzling that NBC continues to offer a platform to someone so willing to pass along prejudice disguised as political speech. – Tampa Bay Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump added to his portfolio of race-based insults, citing figures provided by Fox News Channel anchor Bill O\u2019Reilly as proof that \u201cthe overwhelming amount of violent crime in our major cities is committed by blacks and Hispanics.\u201d \u201cWe must stop being so politicially correct,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cMust tell it like it is.\u201d His first … Continue reading “Trump says we must stop being so politically correct”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2970,2971,2969],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-donald-trump","tag-politically-correct","tag-race-baiting"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/donaldtrump.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4972,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}