FORMER VIRGINIA ATTORNEY
GENERAL KEN CUCCINELLI IS GOING TO GO ON TELEVISION AND TALK
ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER, BECAUSE HE IS AN EXPERT ON THIS.
HE SAYS HE IS OFFENDED BY THIS HASHTAG,
ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS FOLKS SAYING, YOU KNOW WHAT, MAYBE
THE COPS SHOULD TAKE A LITTLE BIT MORE CARE WITH OUR LIVES.
HE SAYS THERE IS A PROBLEM.
LET'S FIND OUT WHY HE IS OFFENDED.
TALK TO ME ABOUT WHY IT IS THAT SOME PEOPLE, AND I AM NOT
SAYING YOU, WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE RESENTFUL OF THE BLACK LIVES
MATTER HASHTAG?
I THINK THE WAY HE SAID IT IS VALUABLE.
ADDING TOO AT THE END PUTS IT IN A CONTEXT THAT MAKES SENSE.
BUT IT IS IMPLICIT.
YOU MAY SAY THAT, AND THERE IS PLENTY REASON TO UNDERSTAND
THAT, BUT I DON'T THINK EVERY AMERICAN HEARS IT THAT WAY.
THEY
HERE, HERE WE ARE, THERE IS THIS POLITICAL MOTIVATION THAT WE ARE
SEPARATING OUT ONE ALLEGORY OF AMERICANS
AND SAYING THEY MATTER MORE THAN EVERYBODY ELSE.
WE ARE SAYING, STOP KILLING US.
MY LIFE MATTERS.
IT TAKES PLACE IN --
I UNDERSTAND THAT.
ALL LIVES MATTER.
WE ARE NOT LEAVING THESE OUT, WHOEVER THAT SPEAKER IS.
IN THIS CASE YOU HAVE JEB BUSH, I AM SAYING HERE.
OKAY, HE JUST WANTS TO BE CLEAR THAT WHITE LIVES MATTER AS
WELL.
IT IS TRUE, THERE IS AN EPIDEMIC OF BLACK COPS SHOOTING
UNARMED WHITE MEN IN THIS
COUNTRY.
AN EPIDEMIC.
ALL RIGHT, THAT IS NOT AN ISSUE IN THE
COUNTRY.
WHAT WE HAVE IS AN ISSUE THAT IS OBVIOUS, WHICH IS
UNARMED BLACK GUYS BEING SHOT, LET ALONE UNARMED BLACK WOMEN
BEING DRAGGED OUT OF CARS AND LATER SHOWING UP DEAD IN JAIL
CELLS.
SO THAT IS THE ISSUE.
LET ME GIVE YOU NUMBERS BEHIND THAT
ISSUE.
YOUNG BLACK PEOPLE ARE
4.5 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE KILLED BY POLICE THAN ANY OTHER
AGE OR RACIAL GROUP, ACCORDING TO THE CENTER ON JUVENILE AND
CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND WHILE BLACK AMERICANS COMPRISED JUST
13% OF THE U.S. POPULATION, THEY
MAKE UP 26% OF THOSE SHOT BY POLICE.
NOW I KNOW WHAT SOME
FOLKS ON THE RIGHT WING ARE GOING TO SAY, WELL THEY HAD IT
COMING.
BLACKS ARE MORE VIOLENT,
FOR CRIMINAL, THAT IS WHY THEY GOT SHOT BY THE COPS MORE.
REMEMBER WHAT MICHAEL WOODS SAID, HE IS A FORMER BALTIMORE
COP, AND HE SAID, EVEN IF WE ARE ASSIGNED TO WHITE AREAS, WE KNEW
WE CAN MAKE ARRESTS THERE.
IT WOULD BE A JUDGE HIS SON, WE
WOULD GET IN TROUBLE.
SO WE WOULD GO TO BLACK AREAS AND MAKE
ARRESTS THERE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO POWER.
THEY ARE TARGETING
BLACKS, WHAT DID YOU THINK?
AND THIS IS A FORMER BALTIMORE COP
SAYING WHAT DID YOU THINK?
THAT BLACK COMMUNITIES WERE LYING FOR
HUNDREDS OF YEARS?
OF COURSE THEY SHARE A PERSPECTIVE THAT
YOU DON'T SHARE, KEN CUCCINELLI.
YOU ARE NOT AT RISK AT BEING
SHOT BY A COP, BECAUSE YOU ARE
WHITE, A FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL, PART OF THE
ESTABLISHMENT, YOU LIVE IN THE
RIGHT NEIGHBORHOOD.
THAT DOES NOT MEAN THERE IS NO RISK AT
ALL, AND IT IS NOT JUST RACIAL,
BELIEVE ME THE COPS WILL ROLL OVER YOU IF YOU ARE A POOR WHITE
PERSON IN THE WRONG NEIGHBORHOOD
AS WELL, RIGHT?
IT IS THE ELITE THAT HAVE GET OUT OF JAIL FREE
CARDS MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE.
BUT CAN CUCCINELLI APPARENTLY CAN'T
UNDERSTAND THAT, AND HE WANTED TO BE MORE INCLUSIVE.
I GUESS HE
WOULD HAVE SAID THE SAME THING TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS PROTESTERS
WHO SHOW UP WITH SIGNS LIKE THIS.
WHY DIDN'T THEY SAY WHAT
PEOPLE ARE A MAN TOO?
THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A HUGE PART OF THE
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
THEY HAD TO SAY I AM A MAN, BECAUSE THEY
WERE NOT BEING TREATED LIKE HUMAN BEINGS.
YOU HAVE TO SAY
BLACK LIVES MATTER, BECAUSE IT IS APPARENT THAT SOME COPS IN
THE COUNTRY DON'T THINK THEY MATTER, AND A LOT OF
RIGHT-WINGERS BACK THEM.
PEOPLE LIKE ELISABETH HASSELBECK SAY,
WELL, SANDY BLAND GOT PUT IN JAIL FOR NOT PUTTING OUT HER
CIGARETTE AS HE WAS COMMANDED BY AN OFFICER, BUT MAYBE THAT WAS A
THREAT TO THE POLICE OFFICER,
HER CIGARETTE.
YEAH, MAYBE.
SO THIS COOCH IS A WELL-KNOWN
ADVOCATE OF TERRIBLE IDEAS, HE
LOST HIS BID TO BECOME GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA PARTLY BECAUSE WHILE
ATTORNEY GENERAL HE TRIED TO
OUTLAW BLOW JOBS.
TRUE STORY.
HE SAID THAT HE WANTED SODOMY TO BE
LITERALLY AGAINST THE LAW.
NOT
GAY MARRIAGE, ANY ACT OF SODOMY.
BUT HE WAS BEING FAIR, HE WAS
SAYING I AM NOT JUST TARGETING
GAYS, ALTHOUGH OBVIOUSLY THAT IS WHY HE INTRODUCED THE LAW IN THE
FIRST PLACE, BUT SODOMY IS NOT JUST ANAL, ALSO ORAL SEX.
SO
NOBODY IN THE VIRGINIA WOULD
HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO HAVE ANY OF THOSE THINGS, AND IF HE CAUGHT
YOU GETTING A BLOW JOB, HE WOULD HAVE PUT YOU IN JAIL.
IS HE NOT
MERCIFUL?
I TOOK HIM SERIOUSLY THOUGH, AND I THINK YOU MIGHT BE
ONTO SOMETHING.
I WANT TO SEE IF THESE HASHTAGS TAKE OFF AS WELL,
BECAUSE THESE ARE VERY POWERFUL.
THESE ARE COOCH-LIKE
SUGGESTIONS.
BLACK LIVES MATTER,
ALSO.
BLACK LIVES MATTER, AS WELL.
AND MY FAVORITE,
ADDITIONALLY, BLACK LIVES
MATTER.
I THINK THE COOCH IS ONTO SOMETHING AGAIN.
I HOPE HE
DOESN'T SCREW THE COOCH THIS TIME.