Other conservatives are joining former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's call for more attention to be paid to black-on-black crime.
Giuliani ignited a firestorm on "Meet the Press" Sunday when
he said 93 percent of black homicide victims were killed by other black people, and not by the police.
Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson told Giuliani, "This is the defensive mechanism of white supremacy in your mind, sir!"
That didn't stop former Florida Rep. Allen West and Republican operative Karl Rove from weighing in on Tuesday when discussing the exoneration of Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson in the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, Jr.
President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder both have weighed in on the Ferguson case, with Holder's Justice Department carrying out two civil rights investigations in relation to the case.
But West, who is black, ticked off a list of several heinous crimes committed by black suspects and said neither Obama nor Holder are saying anything about them.
"I think that the country really has to get tired of this cherry-picking of these instances of their perceived social justice and their own agenda that they're trying to use for their own elevation," West said on Fox News Channel's
"On the Record with Greta Van Susteren."
Rove, appearing on Fox News Channel's
"The O'Reilly Factor," gave Obama credit for speaking out against violent protests, but said the president spent much more time lecturing the police to exercise restraint in dealing with troublemakers among the peaceful protesters.
"We've seen him empathize with the black victim of crime," Rove said, noting that he once said if he had a son he would look like Trayvon Martin, "but we've not heard him take on black-on-black crime."
Obama could do much as the first black president to confront the legitimate concerns people have about the remnants of racism, but also about the challenges facing the black community, Rove said.
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