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Holder blasts racial profiling, shares own experiences
MSNBC ^ | April 9, 1994 | Morgan Whitaker

Posted on 04/09/2014 6:50:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Attorney General Eric Holder spoke out against racial profiling Wednesday, arguing the practice undermines the relationship between communities and law enforcement officials. He also reflected on his own experiences with profiling in years past.

The attorney general told an audiance at the annual National Action Network convention in New York that his father gave him advice as a boy on how to interact with police if he ever felt he had been stopped unfairly.

“I thought of my father’s words years later, when – as a college student – I was pulled over twice on the New Jersey turnpike and my car was searched – even though I was sure I hadn’t been speeding,” he said, according to his prepared remarks. “I thought of them again some time after that, when a police officer stopped and questioned me in Washington while I was running to catch a movie – even though I happened to be a federal prosecutor at the time.”

“And I couldn’t help but think of my father just a couple of years ago when I sat down to convey the same message to my own teenage son after the shooting of Trayvon Martin – a conversation I hoped I’d never have to have,” he added.

Holder’s appearance came amid intense media scrutiny of National Action Network President and msnbc host Al Sharpton....

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: holder; hypocrisy; hypocrite; racism; sharpton; trayvon
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To: Bogey78O

Didn’t he break and enter and illegally occupy offices at Columbia University when he was a student? He was getting a full ride scholarship at the time, right?

What a wonderful country.


21 posted on 04/09/2014 7:25:03 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Plays the victim so well! The encounter involving Trayvon had nothing to do with police, why’d he throw that in? If he’d taken his father’s words about encounters with police so seriously, why was he baiting campus police at Columbia, probably NYPD as well, when he took part in an illegal occupation of campus buildings that launched his career of corruption.


22 posted on 04/09/2014 7:28:44 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: ladyjane

True, but it was completely understandable. He had just been freed from a lifetime of slavery picking cotton for the Koch family on their plantation. His back was a mass of scar tissue from the whippings he got when he begged for treatment as a human being, the overseer Mr. Limbaugh would just laugh and lash him again with the whip.


23 posted on 04/09/2014 7:36:03 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL! Call he waaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance!
This administration and its supporters/enablers is the biggest bunch of racial profilers there is in America: they constantly claim that we all disagree with them because BHO is black. That’s such a falsehood.


24 posted on 04/09/2014 7:37:40 PM PDT by polymuser
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When yo butt get in a sling whoop out dat race carit. Better use it now, its about to expire.


25 posted on 04/09/2014 7:41:21 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

What holder and the whole WhiteyHut gang is counting on is that when us damn creepyass crackas take back over we will respect the Constitution and not go after them with malice.


26 posted on 04/09/2014 7:48:18 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Racial profiling is the only reason he attended Columbia.
27 posted on 04/09/2014 7:53:16 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He talks about Trayvon Martin as some great national tragedy but doesn’t say a word about the tens of thousands of murders of black boys by the Crips and the Bloods! He strains on the gnat and swallows the camel.


28 posted on 04/09/2014 7:54:45 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He talks about Trayvon Martin as some great national tragedy but doesn’t say a word about the tens of thousands of murders of black boys by the Crips and the Bloods! He strains on the gnat and swallows the camel.


29 posted on 04/09/2014 7:55:21 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If we have to stop racial profiling, then we also have to stop affirmative action.


30 posted on 04/09/2014 7:57:55 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If we were all 8 track tapes, he’d have only one track: ‘Nobody knows the troubles I’ve seen.’ Sad sack of ****.


31 posted on 04/09/2014 8:09:29 PM PDT by tumblindice (Are all Democrats inveterate, habitual liars?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gee why would law enforcement be interested in Holder? Racism I guess. As college student, Eric Holder participated in ‘armed’ takeover of former Columbia University ROTC office

32 posted on 04/09/2014 8:25:49 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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OH Holder cry me a River…

He is truly the worst AG this Nation has ever had, and he should have been gone in weeks after his swearing in…He has something on B.Hussein O. that is keeping him in power…

WILL THE TRUTH EVER BE KNOWN IN OUR LIFE TIME????


33 posted on 04/09/2014 8:32:38 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Absolutely pathetic. How much lower into the sewer can this administration take us?


34 posted on 04/09/2014 8:34:43 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

A long way, My FRiend, a long way.


35 posted on 04/09/2014 8:38:05 PM PDT by sport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Get over yourself, Holder. You really aren’t that special.


36 posted on 04/09/2014 9:16:51 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight (...staying home isn't an option.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Holder and his ilk have a mental disorder. They see racism like anorexics see body fat that isn’t there. I feel bad for people with eating disorders, but not so much for Holder and crew because it is free America that suffers from his mental disorder. The inmates are running the asylum.


37 posted on 04/09/2014 10:41:16 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
First of all, as with Obama, Eric the Red's history of serial lying reflects on the credibility of ANYTHING he says.
But if we examine the premise that "racism is bad", is then Eric the Red's reverse racism any less worse, or is it actually WORSE because it exists as revenge based on "racism is bad"?
Regardless, this whiny, lying, incompetent, corrupt, anti-American commie boob must soon be impeached.
38 posted on 04/10/2014 3:29:20 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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