Today’s quote comes to us from a great Mayor and terrible presidential candidate….who I wish had been a great presidential candidate too: Rudy Giuliani.
Here is just part of his commentary – not scripted, but just off the top of his head – while on CBS News yesterday:
First let me say, my deep sympathy for the people of Minnesota, the people of Louisiana, the people of Texas and of Dallas and I’d like them all to remember that though these incidents happened in different ways, they all share it together as Americans. And we — we share this violence together as Americans. So — so maybe Whites have to look at it differently and Blacks have to look at it differently. 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 — it exists.
And there’s a second reality in the — 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. So if you want to protect Black lives, then you’ve got to protect Black lives not just against police, which happens rarely, although with tremendous attention, and which happens every 14 hours in Chicago. Every 14 hours and we never hear from Black Lives Matter.
So — so if you want to deal — if you want to deal with this on the Black side, you’ve got to teach your children to be respectful to the police and you’ve got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police, the real danger to them 99 out of 100 times, 990 out of 1,000 times are other Black kids who are going to kill them. That’s the way they’re going to die.
Now, on the — on the White — on the White side, we have to understand that whether we get it or not, there is this extraordinary fear of the police, and police have to be — have to institute a policy of zero tolerance, like we did for crime in New York. Zero tolerance. No disrespect.
And that’s not all.
Mr. Giuliani said a lot more, all of which you can read in Larry O’Connor’s article at powerlineblog.com.
But even if you stop right there, Mr. Giuliani runs away with Quote Of The Day honors, because in about two minutes’ time he made more sense, and spoke more intelligently, about this issue than Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump combined. Multiples more.
God I wish he were running this year.
ANY year.
