Nothing to see here.
Former Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani went on
Meet the Press yesterday to explain that a black teen being gunned down in the middle of a Ferguson street by a white police officer in an area of America steeped in racism and protesters of that act being met with tear gas, armored vehicles, and every other weapon any nearby Missouri police department could get their hands on was
never a significant issue in the first place.
"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."
He went on to explain to fellow panelist and noted civil rights author Michael Eric Dyson that the problem here was
Dyson and his fellow black people were uncivilized.
"The white police officers won't be there if you weren't killing each other," Giuliani said during the heated exchange in which the two men spoke over each other.
"Why don't you cut down your crime so so many white police officers don't have to be in black areas?" Giuliani asked. [...]
"What about the poor black child who kills another black child? Why aren't you protesting that?" Giuliani asked.
The Giuliani Theory, which he seems to have cribbed from insert-your-own-suspicion-here, seems to be that so long as any black Americans are committing any crimes, white police officers shooting whichever black Americans they want in the head for still-unexplained and/or
thoroughly debunked reasons is a non-issue only pushed by tedious black activists who do not understand just how little we should care about these things. He went on to defend himself in the place where all people who have just whitesplained all wrongdoing against all black Americans choose to defend themselves, the warm embrace of
Fox & Friends.
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"Here's what I'm very frustrated about with Ferguson, and all these situations," he told "Fox and Friends" co-host Steve Doocey. "These things happen and they are exceptions."
“The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. That’s going to happen less than one percent of the time," he later added. "The danger to a black child -- if it was my child -- the danger is another black.”
Because white people do not kill people, you see.
"I used to look at our crime reduction, and the reason we reduced homicide by 65 percent is because we reduced it in the black community," Giuliani said of his time as mayor. "Because there is virtually no homicide in the white community."
There feels like there should be a lesson to be learned here, other than (1) the former mayor of New York City appears to be an outspoken white supremacist or (2) a crowded 2016 presidential primary has already launched members of the field into saying the most outrageous things they can think of in an early bid for the support of the lowest sh-tstains of the party, the only ones who reliably vote in the early primary season. On one hand this theory speaks for itself. On the other hand it speaks for itself and twenty other things besides: how black Americans continue to be treated even at this moment; how flagrant racism justifies itself and continues to premise itself on the less-civilized nature of the other, even in our most "distinguished" of national discussions; how the state of Missouri continues to conduct its affairs, even now; why black protesters must be met with preemptive violence, because of the inherent danger the black mind and black voice and black body represents; how the Supreme Court can declare institutional racism over, because obviously the only people who would think it still played a role in mayors' offices or governors' offices or police departments are petty activists with petty, insincere beliefs who do not understand how these things work.
Take your pick. When Rudy Giuliani goes on the news programs and explains that Michael Brown was shot on the street only because Michael Eric Dyson cannot control his overtly vicious tribe, it gives away the game. If there are people in America today who want to stand up for what Rudy Giuliani thinks and defend it, please do so. The rest of us need to get another good long look at you, to remind ourselves of all the things America could have been by now if it weren't for the likes of you.