Posted on 03/02/2011 6:01:49 PM PST by Kaslin
Law Enforcement: The attorney general defends the Justice Department's mishandling of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case in racial terms at the same time he says race had nothing to do with it.
Post-racial politics and color-blind justice took a hit Tuesday during a House subcommittee hearing into Justice's failure to pursue a clear-cut case of voter intimidation by members of the New Black Panther Party in the 2008 election.
The hearing also involved the department's documented failure to cooperate with a Civil Rights Commission investigation into the matter.
Attorney General Eric Holder took umbrage at a comment about the case read by Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, called it "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen."
Holder also reacted to Culberson's assertion that there was "clearly evidence, overwhelming evidence, that your Department of Justice refuses to protect the rights of anybody other than African-Americans to vote. There's a pattern of a double standard here."
Holder said it was insulting to compare voter intimidation to the outright denial of the right to vote that the civil rights movement fought to overcome. To describe the New Black Panther case "in those terms," he said, "does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people."
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+Holder doesn’t even try to hide the fact that he is a racist. Didn’t he take an oath to uphold, protect and defend the US Constitution?
The fact that he believes this so strongly that he says it aloud without a blink of the eye - is frightening. The fact that he the AG is outrageous.
An AG that feels he has the right to protect only one segment of the country - should be removed.
Thanks for the ping.
I suppose those of us who are not of “his people” may consider ourselves absolved of his authority as AG.
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