Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, an outspoken critic of President Obama, Black Lives Matter, and LGBT rights, hosts a weekly podcast, “The People’s Sheriff,” on Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze Radio Network. Clarke spent last week’s podcast analyzing a New York Times piece by Harvard professor Sendhil Mullainathan, which argues that while police killings are a race problem, they are a problem that is not necessarily rooted in racial bias on the part of individual officers.
During his discussion, Clarke responded to Mullainathan’s claim that low-income African Americans are overrepresented in the population of drug dealers due to fewer job options by alleging that the real reason black people are more likely to have interactions with law enforcement is because of “dysfunctional black subculture.”
Clarke continued, “Let me tell you why blacks sell drugs and involve themselves in criminal behavior, instead of a more socially acceptable lifestyle: because they’re uneducated, they’re lazy, and they’re morally bankrupt. That’s why.”
A few days later, Sheriff Clarke took to Twitter to share his thoughts on Black Lives Matter:
Before long, Black Lies Matter will join forces with ISIS to being down our legal constituted republic. You heard it first here.
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) October 28, 2015
