From Rippa at The Intersection of Madness and Reality:
Less than a week ago in the wake of the questionable shooting death of two black men by police officers in separate incidents. Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, said something profound.
“If you are a normal, white American, the truth is you don’t understand being black in America and you instinctively under-estimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk,” said Newt Gingrich
Newt, unlike his Republican brother Rudy Giuliani, actually made sense. The barriers of institutional racism are very real and not limited to the over-policing of minority communities. In response to the same separate shooting incidents, Guiliani took it upon himself to give a class on black parenting in an interview.