Racist apparatus in US oppressing blacks: Journalist
There is a growing movement in the United States to end police brutality and the racist apparatus that has oppressed blacks for many years, an African American journalist in Detroit says.
Many political and law enforcement officials in the US are “attempting to justify the deadly force utilized against so many African Americans,” said Abayomi Azikiwe, editor at the Pan-African News Wire.
There have been hundreds of protests in the US and Europe in recent years to show solidarity with the plight of blacks and condemn police violence, Azikiwe said in a phone interview with Press TV on Monday.
In an interview on Sunday, former mayor of New York City called the Black Lives Matter movement “inherently racist.”
Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Giuliani said that the Black Lives Matter movement, which regularly organizes protests around the deaths of black people by police, promoted violence against police officers and racism.
“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.”
Azikiwe rejected Giuliani’s argument, calling the former mayor a “racist.”
“Giuliani does not represent the people; he represents the racist apparatus that has been suppressing and oppressing people for many, many years.”
Over the past few days, thousands of demonstrators have flooded the streets of major cities across the country to decry the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of police officers.
The police killings have once again fueled outrage and widespread protests in the United States, as the issues of racism, gun violence and police brutality shook the country.
Hundreds of people were arrested on Saturday as new protests against the use of deadly force by police flared in several US cities.
On Friday, five policemen were killed and seven others wounded by Johnson during a protest against police brutality and racial profiling of African Americans.
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