Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani argued Monday that he saved more black lives as mayor than the Black Lives Matter movement is saving today.
“I saved more black lives than anyone in the history of the city. I took over the city with 1,924 murders; I gave it to Mayor [Mike] Bloomberg with 500+ murders. Seventy-five percent of the people saved during that time were African American,” he said on Fox News.
Giuliani also criticized Black Lives Matter for only focusing on police shootings, which ignores other violence that they should also worry about.
“I don’t see what Black Lives Matter is doing for blacks other than isolating them,” he said. “All it cares about is the police shooting of blacks. It doesn’t care about the 90 percent of blacks that are killed by the blacks. That is a simple fact.”
His remarks were a continuation of his controversial comments from Sunday, when he said the Black Lives Matter movement is “inherently racist,” and said black children need to be taught to be “respectful of police.”
He argued that the movement is racist because it “never protests when someone is killed in Chicago” in black-on-black crime, which is “the predominant way in which a black person in this country is killed.”
For that reason, he said Black Lives Matter sympathizers are really trying to “agitate against the police matters,” he added.
“If they meant black lives matter, they would do something about the way in which the vast majority of blacks are killed in America, which is by other blacks,” Giuliani said.
