In an appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told black parents that they should teach their children to be respectful to police and worry more about violence in the black community.
“There’s too much violence in the black community,” Giuliani said. “So, 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, 9,900 out of 1,000 times are other black kids who are going to kill them. That’s the way they’re going to die.”
As the Washington Post notes, this is not the first time Giuliani has stated such views, claiming in a 2014 interview on NBC’s Meet the Press that “93 percent of blacks in America are killed by other blacks.”
Giuliani’s comments came days after the killings of police officers in Dallas, as well as the fatal police-involved shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn.
Large protests over the deaths of Sterling and Castile continued Saturday, and hundreds were arrested across the nation.
Giuliani also called the Black Lives Matter movement “inherently racist.”
“Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter,” he said. “That’s anti-American, and it’s racist.”