The former mayor of New York City called the Black Lives Matter movement “inherently racist” in an interview Sunday.
Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” former mayor Rudy Giuliani said that the Black Lives Matter movement promoted violence against police officers and racism, reports The New York Times.
“When you say black lives matter, that’s inherently racist,” Giuliani said during the interview. “Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That’s anti-American, and it’s racist.”Guiliani also said that Black Lives Matter had a tendency to focus on killings of blacks from police officers, rather than paying attention to cases where blacks killed each other.