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shouldn't be surprised, but wow.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Eric Schwerin <eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com
> wrote:

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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/23/giuliani-white-police-officers-wouldnt-be-there-if-you-werent-killing-each-other/
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> Giuliani: ‘White police officers wouldn’t be there if you weren’t killing
> each other.’
> [image: Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani debated Georgetown professor
> Michael Eric Dyson on Meet The Press. Chaos ensued. (NBC News)]
>
> Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani had a heated debate with
> Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson on NBC's "Meet the Press" on
> Sunday. (NBC News)
>
> Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani faced immediate Web backlash
> Sunday morning after he asked why people protest the killing of unarmed
> Ferguson, Mo., teenager Michael Brown
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/11/21/ferguson-timeline-whats-happened-since-the-aug-9-shooting-of-michael-brown/>
> but not black-on-black crime.
>
> “Ninety-three percent of blacks are killed by other blacks,” Giuliani
> <http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/rwg/html/bio.html> said, triggering a
> heated argument on NBC's "Meet the Press
> <http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press>." “I would like to see the
> attention paid to that that you are paying to this.”
>
> Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson
> <http://www.michaelericdyson.com/april41968/>, a frequent MSNBC pundit,
> said Giuliani was applying a "false equivalency" to the situation in
> Ferguson, where a grand jury will soon decide whether to charge Officer
> Darren Wilson
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/st-louis-area-braces-for-aftershock-of-ferguson-shooting-grand-jury-decision/2014/11/22/f0615786-7263-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop>
> in Brown's shooting death.
>
> “Black people who kill black people go to jail,” Dyson said. “White people
> who are policemen who kill black people do not go to jail.”
>
> Watch the full exchange here:
>
> “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.”
>
> The comments followed a "Meet the Press" segment about disproportionately
> white police forces
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/police-staffing/>
> serving far more diverse populations. White officers dominate forces in
> most large U.S. cities, a Washington Post analysis found
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/police-staffing/>. Only
> three out of 53 police officers
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/08/22/do-diverse-police-forces-treat-their-communities-more-fairly-than-all-white-ones-like-fergusons/>
> are black in Ferguson, where two-thirds of the population is black.
>
> Some Twitter users responded Sunday with outrage, calling Giuliani’s
> comments racist.
>
> Thank you Mayor Giuliani for the important reminder: White supremacy is
> alive & well. #Ferguson <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash>
> #MTP <https://twitter.com/hashtag/MTP?src=hash>
> — Mr. Anderson (@lionel_anderson) November 23, 2014
> <https://twitter.com/lionel_anderson/status/536552214190628865>
>
> I have 3 words for people who are surprised by Giuliani's comments on Meet
> the Press: STOP AND FRISK. #MTP <https://twitter.com/hashtag/MTP?src=hash>
> @chucktodd <https://twitter.com/chucktodd> #meetthepress
> <https://twitter.com/hashtag/meetthepress?src=hash>
> — DR.BROWN-DEAN (@KBDPHD) November 23, 2014
> <https://twitter.com/KBDPHD/status/536553623979700224>
>
> Wow, never realized how awful Mayor Guiliani was until I heard him speak
> about #Ferguson <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash> on Meet
> the Press. Old, tired, racist.
> — Vicki Walden (@TheVikChick) November 23, 2014
> <https://twitter.com/TheVikChick/status/536553531369852928>
>
> On Meet the Press, Rudy Giuliani displaying a solidly antiquated view of
> race and policing.
> — Ben Max (@TweetBenMax) November 23, 2014
> <https://twitter.com/TweetBenMax/status/536551059192545280>
>
> Don't give Trump and Giuliani the time of day. Last thing St. Louis needs
> is racist New Yorkers weighing in. Got enough problems. #Ferguson
> <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash>
> — Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) November 23, 2014
> <https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/536548520585871361>
>
> Rudy Giuliani is using the black on black crime to defend having
> disproportionately white police forces on @meetthepress
> <https://twitter.com/meetthepress> and I CAN'T
> — Meghan Groob (@mgroob) November 23, 2014
> <https://twitter.com/mgroob/status/536543329086095360>
>
> Some wondered why Giuliani was even on the talk show:
>
> @aterkel <https://twitter.com/aterkel> why is Giuliani relevant enough to
> be on meet the press? (Other than he's a far right wing celebrity.)
> — Matt Perrella (@skipwiley11) November 23, 2014
> <https://twitter.com/skipwiley11/status/536557219005730817>
>
> @meetthepress <https://twitter.com/meetthepress> Giuliani is apart of the
> problem.. Why have him on ? #Ferguson
> <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash> @Giuliani
> <https://twitter.com/giuliani> is such a racist
> — Simply-Complicated (@Diamondqqs) November 23, 2014
> <https://twitter.com/Diamondqqs/status/536543477363122176>
>
> Others showed support:
>
> I wholeheartedly agree with Mayor Giuliani. Why isn't there more outrage
> about the issues plaguing black communities?? #meetthepress
> <https://twitter.com/hashtag/meetthepress?src=hash>
> — Maurice Corbett (@MalecoDC) November 23, 2014
> <https://twitter.com/MalecoDC/status/536551503180595203>
>
> @meetthepress <https://twitter.com/meetthepress> I agree Giuliani!!
> — viv100 (@vivanari) November 23, 2014
> <https://twitter.com/vivanari/status/536544585103974400>
>
> Wow. Rudy Giuliani demolished @MichaelEDyson
> <https://twitter.com/MichaelEDyson> on @meetthepress
> <https://twitter.com/meetthepress> w/ logic, common sense, wisdom & cold,
> hard facts. Dyson got emotional. #Lost
> <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lost?src=hash>
> — Matt Deuschle (@MattBDeuschle) November 23, 2014
> <https://twitter.com/MattBDeuschle/status/536568110120456193>
>
> *What do you think of Giuliani’s opinion on the Ferguson protests?*
>
>
> Eric D. Schwerin
> eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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