Vice President Joe Biden responded Monday to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement by saying the movement is not representative of the whole black community.
Biden was asked on CNN to offer a response to Giuliani’s criticisms after meeting with law enforcement officials on Monday. While discussing the fatal police shootings of two black men last week in Louisiana and Minnesota, the former mayor had said the Black Lives Matter movement was “inherently racist” and black parents should teach their children to be “respectful to the police.”
Noting that President Barack Obama has criticized the movement before, Biden said some involved in the movement have criticized police in their chants. But he said those individuals were not representative of the rest of the movement.
“That’s not the community—that group, that element of Black Lives Matter, doesn’t speak for all of Black Lives Matter and does not, does not speak for those folks in the black community both middle class and poor who know they are more likely to be pulled over than the Caucasian guy,” Biden said.
The Vice President went on to call Giuliani’s statement “very broad” and to emphasize that the loosely organized Black Lives Matter movement encompasses people who both do and don’t want to “talk and have dialogue.”
“But to make it sound like it’s the NAACP or a major African-American organization, it is an umbrella of all kinds of people who feel like there is discrimination that exists in some police departments, in some neighborhoods and they want to talk about it, they want to deal with it,” Biden said.
Of course, what Giuliani really means by “respectful of the police” is “respect my authority!”. It’s just another person blaming black people for the structural racism that sees them singled out more often by the police. Giuliani was one of the people who helped to enforce that structure, so it’s not a surprise that he’s in favor of a system where black parents are more afraid of the police killing their kids, to the point of telling them to avoid the police even when they need help.
White racists like Guiliani love to call black people racists. That’s a Republican schtick. Like Bush said, they have created an alternative universe.
Gee, Rudy, it’s kind of hard to be respectful of the police when you had people like Bernie Kerik running them.
" and black parents should teach their children to be “respectful to the police.”
" But we New Yorkers bear a special shame today after the hatred spewed by our loathsome former mayor, Rudy Giuliani, who blamed black children. “Let’s teach everyone including the children of the black community that most of those police officers are the reason you’re alive,” he said on MSNBC. “Because the real danger to you is that black kid who is going to shoot you on the street.”
Then, he shamelessly added, “My father taught me that, when a police officer tells you something, do what he says.”
Dad must have learned this after he went to Sing Sing for armed robbery.
(“Rudy! An Investigative Biography of Rudolph W. Giuliani,”’ by Wayne Barrett)."
Rudy!
An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani
By WAYNE BARRETT. Assisted by ADAM FIFIELD.
https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/barrett-rudy.html
I wish Biden would have just pointed out the Dallas shooter had nothing to do with BLM, and left it at that. It was an entirely peaceful protest until that point, and was no fault of any of the organizers.