A college professor went on CNN and compared police officers to ISIS

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Georgetown University sociology Prof. Michael Eric Dyson during an appearance on CNN’s “New Day” drew a comparison between police and the terror group ISIS, saying, “Many African-American people say we were introduced to terror long before 9/11.”

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The segment opened with an assessment of outgoing President Barack Obama’s legacy and race relations in America.

Dyson, while granting that Donald Trump’s election was not simply a racist reaction to Obama, nonetheless argued, “A lot of the response against Obama was for no other reason than he was a black man.”

“If you don’t like Barack Obama as a black man, there are not too many other brothers you’re going to dig,” he said. “Because he’s nice, he’s congenial, he’s affable, he agrees with people who disagree with him. That kind of man is extremely rare.”

CNN host Alisyn Camerota countered, “If you’re saying that there was some racism that went into Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton isn’t a black male either.”

CNN’s Chris Cuomo would add, “A lot of people voted out there because they think we’ve been weak on ISIS. That’s color neutral.” Cuomo also mentioned economic issues and Obamacare as reasons people voted the way they did.

Dyson replied, “Color neutral and ISIS?”

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“Many African-American people say we were introduced to terror long before 9/11: the vicious police forces of America that victimized us, and the way white supremacy operated,” he said.

Chris Cuomo answered that “having Islamic extremists wanting to eradicate the American way of life, and police vs. citizens” was “false equivalency.”

Dyson then invoked a debate he once had with Rudy Giuliani on “Meet the Press.”

“Rudy Giuliani — and I have debated him on “Meet the Press” — said, ‘Look, you people focus on police killings of black people when that’s a small percentage of what happens,” he said. “Then he said, ‘Most of the killings are done by black people against black people.'”

“Ninety-three percent of black people who were killed were killed by black people, but 84 percent of white people killed were killed by white people,” Dyson said. “Let’s take [Giuliani’s] logic to the extreme here.”

“If that’s the case, how many people have died from terror in America in the last 10 years? Maybe a hundred,” he said. “Most people have died not from Muhammad, but Billy Bob. In terms of white people, white-on-white crime has done far more to damage America than ISIS.”

“By Rudy Giuliani’s logic, we should not be concerned about terror. I don’t believe that, but I’m saying to you, even those components you said are race-neutral have a racial segment, because black people and brown people experience them differently than the larger community,” he concluded.

(H/t Mediaite)

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