Meet the Press got intense yesterday morning thanks to former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's rather reckless assertions about black-on-black crime and tension between police officers and residents in predominantly black communities.
The conversation between Giuliani and Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson turned sour when Giuliani said that "93 percent of blacks in America are killed by other blacks," then expressed disappointment that Dyson was neglecting this. In response, Dyson pointed out that blacks go to jail for killing other blacks, while "[w]hite people who are policemen who kill black people do not go to jail."
From there, things heated up:
What about the poor black child that was killed by another black child? Giuliani asked. Why aren't you protesting that?... Why don't you cut it down so that so many white police officers don't have to be in black areas?
When I become mayor, I’ll do that, replied Dyson, exasperated.
White police officers wouldn’t be there, Giuliani said, if you weren’t killing each other.
Many were disappointed by Giuliani's reasoning, but others weren't surprised at all:
So many ppl fooled by Guiliani's post 911 faux presidential victory lap. But I was raised in NY. We been saying f*ck Guiliani for years.
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) November 23, 2014[via Washington Post]
