Posted on 07/12/2016 8:40:40 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani made some provocative statements on race and the media during his appearance on CBS' Face the Nation Sunday, including calling the Black Lives Matter movement "inherently racist."
After voicing his sympathy for the victims of the shootings in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Dallas over the past week, Giuliani discussed the need for understanding between the black and white communities, as well as the lack of attention given to black-on-black crime compared to instances of police shooting black men:
Whites have to realize that African-American men have a fear and boys have a fear of being confronted by the police because of some of these incidents. Some people may consider it rational. Some people may consider it irrational. But it's a reality. It exists.
And there's a second reality in the black community. And the second reality in the black community is, there's too much violence in the black community. So a black will die 1 percent or less at the hands of the police and 99 percent of the hands of a civilian, most often another black.
...when there are 60 shootings in Chicago over the 4th of July [...] and Black Lives Matter is nonexistent, and then there's one police murder of very questionable circumstances and we hear from Black Lives Matter, we wonder, do black lives matter or only the very few black lives that are killed by white policemen.
Giuliani went on to say black children should be taught "to be respectful to the police," concluding with his condemnation of the phrase "black lives matter":
...when you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist. Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist. Of course black lives matter, and they matter greatly, but when you focus in on one percent of less than 1 percent of the murder that's going on in America, and you make it a national thing and all of you in the media make it much bigger than the black kid who's getting killed in Chicago every 14 hours, you create a disproportion. The police understand it and it puts a target on their back. Every cop in America will tell you that if you ask him.
Check out Giuliani's entire Face the Nation interview below:
Rudy!!!! Why didn’t you run as a dem in 2008!!
You’re not a conservative but you would have saved the country from obummer!!!!
While the world fell apart around us, he kept us going.
9/11
Never Forget.
Giuliani is the expert on fighting crime, community policing and protecting citizens. He wrote the book and saved NYC.
But we should listen to ignorant race baiters who really are shock troops for Hillary.
There is an 1800% greater chance a police officer dies from a black person than of a black person dying at the hands of the police.
BLM is simply a get out the black vote through riots effort. Hillary needs the black vote, she’s not black like Obama and blacks don’t like her, especially black men.So they are destabilizing the country because they know blacks will respond.
Rudy, with his high public profile and widespread support, should be Trump's VP. But I will accept Attorney General.
Way to go Rudy, not afraid to speak the truth. We need more like that. Yet how many other Republicans would say that?
“Way to go Rudy, not afraid to speak the truth. We need more like that. Yet how many other Republicans would say that?”
We have a disgusting and pathetic lot supposedly representing us right now.
And, Loretta Lynch said what we need to do to terrorists is love and understand them, in a fashion.
We should drop the “L” initial from this movement, leaving “B.M.” which can mean either Black Matter in the Universe or Bowel Movement which is more appropriate...
Not sure which is worse, Lynch and her idiotic comment or hillary saying we need to try and see their point of view...the muzzie point of view? Daft, the 2 of ‘em and they are surrounded by like minded losers.
Way to go Rudy, speak the truth over and over...people need to know somebody with a voice is willing to state it!
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