Rudy has the perspective of the conservative white person in a position of power. The element that Rudy misses is the embedded reality that people of color experience on a day to day basis. The solution lies somewhere in the diffusion of both these sides and a renewed commitment to work towards peaceful solutions both in black communities and in local government bodies that are responsible for public safety. I could have written these exact same words once every decade that I have been alive. There is underlying suffering, trauma, fear, anger, and cultures of violence that still remain embedded as well and this is also utterly misunderstood in all directions.
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Giuliani: Michael Brown Death Never Should Have Gone to a Grand Jury
"I think just as much, if not more, responsibility is on the black community to reduce the reason why the police officers are assigned in such large numbers to the black community...It's because blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society."
"If I'd put all my police on Park Avenue instead of Harlem, thousands more blacks would have died during my time in office..."
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