Or, The Continuing Media Narrative of ‘Acceptable’ Racism.
Dr. King once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Apparently, US Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t get the memo.
As reported and applauded by Politico, Holder announced Tuesday that he was fed up with listening to whining whites who claim the justice department deliberately blocks investigations of black on white racism. Predictably, the Establishment media sides with Holder.
“Think about that,” Holder said. “When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia, which was inappropriate .. .to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people,” said Holder, who is black.
Here's another story on Holder. What's all this "my people" talk, doesn't he work for all of us? Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'
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Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American.
Holder's frustration over the criticism became evident during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing as Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) accused the Justice Department of failing to cooperate with a Civil Rights Commission investigation into the handling of the 2008 incident in which Black Panthers in intimidating outfits and wielding a club stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia.
The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.
"Think about that," Holder said. "When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people," said Holder, who is black.
Holder noted that his late sister-in-law, Vivian Malone Jones, helped integrate the University of Alabama.
"To compare that kind of courage, that kind of action, and to say that the Black Panther incident wrong thought it might be somehow is greater in magnitude or is of greater concern to us, historically, I think just flies in the face of history and the facts.," Holder said with evident exasperation.
In a series of questions and comments earlier in the hearing, Culberson insisted that race had infected the decision-making process. "There’s clearly evidence, overwhelming evidence, that your Department of Justice refuses to protect the rights of anybody other than African Americans to vote," the Texas Republican said. "There's a pattern of a double standard here."
“I would disagree very vehemently with the notion that there’s overwhelming evidence that that is in fact true,” Holder replied. “This Department of Justice does not enforce the law in a race-conscious way.”
Rep. Chaka Fattah, a Democrat from Philadelphia, said the Black Panthers "should not have been there." But he said the GOP was making too much out of a fleeting incident involving a couple of people.
"The most unethical thing a person can do is make allegations based on absolutely nothing," Fattah said. "The only issue of race is singling out this particular decision...That this rises to national significance is bogus on its face."
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I just ignore them, Avenge....I got tired of hearing how black people are oppressed and have no rights and need special privilages about the same time my ex tried to force me via lawyers to sign immigration papers for her whole family.
People are people. some are good, some are bad, it has nothing to do with skin color until they make it so and try to play a race card.
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Doug85GT Member
Posts: 9469 From: Sacramento CA USA Registered: May 2003
So the lesson here is that the next time a Black Panther try to intimidate you, take them on. If you get your ass beat or killed then it might actually be considered a real incident.
So the lesson here is that the next time a Black Panther try to intimidate you, take them on. If you get your ass beat or killed then it might actually be considered a real incident.
No, it won't. You will be at fault for starting it.
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Doug85GT Member
Posts: 9469 From: Sacramento CA USA Registered: May 2003
I wonder what Holder's reaction would be if the KKK had "security patrols" stationed in front of polling places?
If he is consistent then he would say it is not the same as the 60's. They would have to burn a cross, blow up a building and lynch someone before it got his attention.
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Posts: 8518 From: Coastal California Registered: Mar 2007
My fellow Americans, who are "your people"? I ask because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase "my people" in congressional testimony this week. It was an unmistakably color-coded and exclusionary reference intended to deflect criticism of the Obama Justice Department's selective enforcement policies. It backfired.
In pandering to skin-deep identity politics and exacerbating race-consciousness, Holder has given the rest of us a golden opportunity to stand up, identify "our people" and show the liberal poseurs what post-racialism really looks like.
Herman Cain is my people. He's my brother-in-arms. I've never met him. But we are family. We are kin because we are unhyphenated Americans who are comfortable in the black, brown and yellow skin we are in. We are growing in numbers -- on college campuses, in elected office, on the Internet, on public airwaves, everywhere. And that drives liberals mouth-frothing crazy.
Cain is the successful Georgia businessman who has wowed audiences across the country with his passion for free markets, free minds and the American Dream. The former president of Godfather's Pizza and forceful tea party speaker happens to be black. So he must pay the price that all minority conservatives in public life must pay. As I noted last week, a cowardly liberal writer recently derided Cain as a "monkey in the window," a "garbage pail kid" and a "minstrel" who performs for his "masters."
Race traitors. Whores. Sellouts. House Niggas. Self-haters. I've heard it for nearly 20 years in public life. Every outspoken minority conservative has. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but these spiteful epithets can't enslave us.
Val Prieto is my people. A fierce, freedom-loving American blogger of Cuban descent, he rejects race-card games and refuses to be lumped in with Hispanic ethnic grievance-mongers. In response to pro-illegal immigration marchers who infamously desecrated the American flag, Prieto wrote:
"I have never and will never, despite having many issues with the government of the United States throughout the years, burn a flag of the United States of America. I am Cuban by birth, American by the grace of God. And a darned proud, dignified, thankful and respectful American. ... I refuse to be lumped together as a class or a race simply because we speak a similar language. ... I ain't Mexican, I ain't Latino and I ain't Hispanic. I am an American of Cuban descent. And damned proud of it."
Katrina Pierson is my people. She's a feisty young Texas mom and Dallas tea party activist who supports limited government principles and rejects left-wing identity politics. She confronted the NAACP last year with a rousing manifesto of political independence and rebutted the left-wing group's attacks on the tea party as racist:
"The reality is that we colored people no longer require the assistance from other Negros for advancement," Pierson said. "These groups run to the rescue of distressed brown people only when the media deems it newsworthy. Meanwhile, there are inner city black children who continue to grow up fatherless while sharing a neighborhood with stray bullets, drugs and a plethora of liquor stores on every corner. ... I don't believe that the true meaning of this nation's creed was to move black people from one form of slavery to another."
The NAACP, she observed, is made up of "Democrats who bow to a Democrat master today as they once did over 200 years ago. Once this is realized by the forgotten society, race in this country will be as irrelevant as those who thrive off of it." Amen, sister.
Allen West, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and freshman congressman from Florida who happens to be black, is my people. Unafraid to skewer progressive sacred cows, he speaks boldly against global jihad and its Fifth Column enablers screaming "Islam-o-phobe!" West has also nailed the Congressional Black Caucus as "a monolithic voice that promotes these liberal social welfare policies and programs that are failing in the black community, that are preaching victimization and dependency; that's not the way that we should go."
According to U.S. News and World Report's Kenneth Walsh, President Obama told guests at a private White House dinner that he believed the tea party movement had a "subterranean agenda" of racism against him. But Lt. Col. West summed up the movement's transcendent, post-racial agenda forthrightly:
"The tea party is a constitutional, conservative grassroots movement -- and that's it. The tea party stands for three things: They want to see effective, efficient constitutional government, they stand for national security, and they stand for free market, free enterprise solutions. That's it."
It's government of, by and for the people--all the people. Not just the ones still shackled by reflexive Democratic Party loyalty. We are beholden not to our skin pigment or ethnic tribes, but to American ideals, tradition, history and faith in the individual.
Only thing I don't like in there, is that she doesn't name any White person as "my people". But I liked it. Allen West is on my radar. I like him a lot.
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what about "the plague"? wasn't that basicly just white europe?
I agree what the US had done a small population of blacks it held in servatude was pretty bad. and the genetic & selective breeding done with them to make large dumb workers really has lasting impact even seen today.
and, as far as I know - most Jews are white. and, little compares to what they dealt with.
yes - sorry descendants of slaves of the south. I feel for you. but, my family came here in 1964.......hey - and guess what? they have had slaves in the past. and - guess what? them slaves were WHITE.
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what about "the plague"? wasn't that basicly just white europe?
I agree what the US had done a small population of blacks it held in servatude was pretty bad. and the genetic & selective breeding done with them to make large dumb workers really has lasting impact even seen today.
and, as far as I know - most Jews are white. and, little compares to what they dealt with.
yes - sorry descendants of slaves of the south. I feel for you. but, my family came here in 1964.......hey - and guess what? they have had slaves in the past. and - guess what? them slaves were WHITE.
Quoted simply because I liked this.
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Posts: 53788 From: Raleigh NC Registered: Jan 2001
what about "the plague"? wasn't that basicly just white europe?
I agree what the US had done a small population of blacks it held in servatude was pretty bad. and the genetic & selective breeding done with them to make large dumb workers really has lasting impact even seen today.
and, as far as I know - most Jews are white. and, little compares to what they dealt with.
yes - sorry descendants of slaves of the south. I feel for you. but, my family came here in 1964.......hey - and guess what? they have had slaves in the past. and - guess what? them slaves were WHITE.
You feeling OK? Your post made good sense, and didn't seem to bash Christians or other religions, or serve to just stir the pot a bit...
Seriously, agree with you on this.
Oh, do you have any references for the 'genetic and selective breeding'?
