Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) got into a heated argument about race and crime with Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson during a discussion on Ferguson, Mo.
“But the fact is, I find it very disappointing that you’re not discussing the fact that 93 percent of blacks in America are killed by other blacks. We’re talking about the exception here,” Giuliani said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” while discussing whether police forces reflect the demographics of the communities they serve.
Dyson called this a “false equivalency.”
“Can I say this, first of all, no black people who commit crimes against other black people go to jail. Number two, they are not sworn by the police department as a agent of the state to uphold the law,” he said. “So in both cases, that’s a false equivalency that the mayor has drawn, which is exacerbated tensions that are deeply imbedded in American culture.”
Later in the argument Giuliani argued that while police officers are only present in certain communities because black people are committing crimes.
“It is the reason for the heavy police presence in the black community,” he said. “White police officers won’t be there if you weren’t killing each other 70 percent of the time.”
Dyson shot back at Giuliani and said, “this is a defense mechanism of white supremacy at work in your mind.”
Watch the clip via NBC:
H/t Washington Post
Damn…
I knew he was a total fucking dick, but I never knew he was a stone cold racist ass.
Amazing how many retired former white Republican politicians who ran for Prez or VP, (Sarah Palin comes to mind), get so much Sunday morning air time, while former elected Presidents, (Bush1 and Bush 2, even Clinton and Carter) and former and current VP’s (Gore/Biden) get zero time on the Sunday shows. Then watch how many of these former Republican white candidates try to make the problems of this nation look like a race war instead of dealing with income inequity and issues like minimum wage or equal voter opportunity.
Um, something like 85 percent of whites who are murdered are killed by other white people.
Well, there you go using facts to support your opinion!
Just to clean up the transcription here, because the quote doesn’t make sense otherwise, Dyson said “Most black people who commit crimes against other black people go to jail,” not “no black people.” I used to try to be understanding about how much pressure the staff worked under but I have to join the chorus and say it’s not that hard to catch these things, sheesh. Just read it over carefully before you hit the clicky, folks.