“RUDY G on Face the Nation is not to be missed. Host Dickerson failed to interrupt the truth as Rudy exquisitely detailed it. Finally, Dickerson tries again with a follow up to trip Rudy, but Guliani would not be denied. Beauiful. !”
It was a thing of beauty to watch.
Then did you hear what the black women on the panel said? The gist was, she blamed Rudy and said his policies when Mayor helped create the climate we have today. What a load of bull. They forget we have long memories and the internet to verify what they say.
Just heard Rudy on FNC and he is hot. He said ABC would not let him go on to rebut what the woman from the NAACP said about him..
She lied!!!he said. Imagine that. He went into the ghettos. Said there wouldn’t be a Harlem... He cleaned it up and we have it today.
Glad he was able to say his piece somewhere.
Shame on Face the Nation.
It is the black mind-set.
I lived in NYC from LaGuardia to Blumberg. Throughout the 90s I worked in the streets, backyards, basements, breezeways and rooftops of Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx....days and nights. I saw the changes his policies made. I saw the murder rate drop and since most of the murdered were blacks, the drop in black victims of murder. But blacks just refused to understand cause and effect. In 98 & 99 I had a black partner. He was an intelligent man in his early 60s. He and another fellow were partners in a part time air charter business. Both had pilot licenses and owned a twin engine plane together. When I attempted to discuss how Guilliani had saved black lives due to the lowering of the murder rate his reply was "I'm not buyin' that."
It's just the way they think and they refuse to be dissuaded.
She was referring to the stop-and-frisk program. That wasn't any more racist than any other policing policy.
Transcript: CBS Face the Nation, July 10, 2016
SHERRILYN IFILL, NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: Well, I -- I hesitate to make my response all to Mayor Giuliani because, you know, part of what we're really confronted with today is the needs of 21st century policing and law enforcement. And Mayor Giuliani not only has a 20th century vision, but he actually presided over one of the most discredited areas and periods of policing in the city of New York, which is, in fact, responsible for a lot of the tension that exists between police officers and people in African-American communities.The reason why it's so difficult, the reason it's so difficult for young African-American men, for all of us sitting here today, for police officers, is because of what has been revealed in the last two years. But what has been revealed in the last two years has been the reality in African-American communities for decades. It's very convenient to talk about black lives matter because people now know those three buzz words. I lead an organization that has been at this for 75 years and the -- my predecessor, you know, who founded the organization, Thurgood Marshall, dealt with the issue of violence of police officers against young African-Americans.
So this has now been revealed to the American public largely because of cell phone videos that have allowed people to actually see what's happened. And now we're in this period of tremendous tension when something has been revealed that was formally concealed. What can we do about it? Well, now we can't pretend that there's some golden age of trust between African-Americans and police that we want to return to.
If we're honest with ourselves, we're getting ready to do a new thing. We're creating a policing that never existed before. We're trying to create relationships that never exist before. We're trying to create trust where it never existed before. And what's required to do that is to take a fresh look at what it means to be a law enforcement officer in the 21st century. I means being able to open up communication to communities of color, not to lecture them about how they talk to their kids.
Parents of African-American men and boys are scared to death of their children's encounter with police and encounters with criminality. That happens every day. From every church pulpit every Sunday, that's what's talked about. In community meetings, that's what's talked about. So when I hear the stuff about, you know, black on black crime and -- that I heard Mayor Giuliani saying, come into our communities, something he has never been quite good at doing to be perfectly honest, be in our churches, listen to our conversations, attend our rallies when we talk about peace in our own communities.