“African Americans for Rudy Guliani”

"RUN RUDY, RUN"










Rudy Guliani may be the most urban freindly Republlican candidate in the
feild of his urban roots may be the closest candidate in the Republican field
to understand the needs of African American’s nationwide.

Yet at the same time he may be the image that black folks see when they think about police brutality. Rudy has often had an up and down relationship with the black community inNew York City. First I will start with the problems I think he will have to overcome to reach out to black America.

Rudy Guliani became Mayor in a city run by Democrat's and alive with racial tensions infact the most known cases were the riots in Crown Heights and the Al Sharpton black boycott of Korean businesses. Rudy's candicay for mayor against David Dinkins the cities first black mayor was an appeal for "law and order".

Most African American's including know Rudy nationwide because of the TV saturated scandals of Abner Louima a Haïtian immigrant who was assaulted and tortured by New York City police officers after being arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub in 1997.Louima's civil suit against the city resulted in a settlement of $8.75 million it became the largest police brutality settlement in New York City history.

The other case was Amadou Diallo a 23 year old immigrant to the United States from Guinea, who was shot and killed by four white New York Police Department plain-clothed officers. Diallo was unarmed at the time of the shooting and a firestorm of controversy erupted subsequent to the event as the circumstances of the shooting prompted outrage both within and outside New York City.

Issues such as police brutality, racial profiling, and shootings were central to the ensuing controversy. It could be said that these two cases and in a pursuit of law and order Guliani became an tagged with an image to many black folks of police brutality. Giuliani's independence was questioned after he staunchly supported the New York City Police Department.

It should be noted that under such distress Rudy’s own Deputy Mayor, Rudy Washington was African American and a loyal supporter.These are issues that Rudy can not hide from and Democrats will make use of these cases in a pursuit to label him racist.Rudy championed many causes as Mayor many that helped African American's in the long run.

With gun violence being a problem in so many black urban area's it must have shocked many black New Yorkers when the Republican Giuliani filed one of the largest lawsuit's ever against two dozen major gun manufacturers and distributors.

Guliani elected the first black Muslim Police Chief Howard Safir and was
endorsed by the popular minister Rev. Floyd Flake

Long before it was popular Giuliani advocated in favor of giving black children who were failing in bad schools education vouchers. He offerd to give million of dollars to allow poor urban black acces to private schools.His advocasy for vocuhers will be popular with African Americans since 57% it.

When it comes to safe streets when asked to African American's wanted most to get illegal drugs out of there communities. the polls show that 35% say law enforcement crackdowns were the solution while 28% saw more drug treatment programs.

After September 11th when asked 71% African American's said that they favored requiring Arabs, including U.S.citizens, to undergo security checks before boarding airplanes.

Another point was Rudy went after his own Italian community penetrating indicting eleven organized crime figures, including the heads of New York's so-called "Five Families"


In his first term as mayor, Giuliani, in conjunction with New York City Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton, adopted an aggressive enforcement-deterrent strategy based on James Q. Wilson's Broken Windows research. This involved crackdowns on relatively minor offenses such as graffiti, turnstile jumping, and aggressive "squeegeemen", on the principle that this would send a message that order would be maintained, and that the city would be "cleaned up".

Giuliani directed the New York City Police Department to aggressively pursue enterprises linked to organized crime, such as the Fulton Fish Market and the Javits Center on the West Side (Gambino crime family). In the breaking up of mob control of solid waste removal, the city was able to save city businesses over $600 million.

It may be that Rudy's campaign of realism may appeal to many black voters, but the scandals may in the end outweigh the successes.New York City which has the largest number of African Americans in the nation may give Guliani ago at the precidency.

The fact that he did clean the city up may give help him many black voters but if Rudy does indeed run which it looks like he will he'll be a formidable candidate.

Go Rudy!

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