Posted on 01/15/2010 9:11:03 AM PST by jazusamo
Racial cowardice, thy name is Eric Holder. For those who don't remember, Attorney General H. Holder Jr. had the gall last February to claim that Americans form "a nation of cowards" with regard to racial issues. Saying that this nation must examine its "racial soul" and that "we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race," Mr. Holder explicitly vowed to "have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us." In that same context, he also vowed repeatedly last year to "restore" the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to a supposedly renewed focus on protecting minority rights.
Yet Mr. Holder was far from explicit about exactly what he meant. Judging from the Civil Rights Division's actions - and now from a highly revealing speech by a newly exiled member of the division - it appears that the civil rights of blacks and Latinos will be protected but those of whites and Asians are treated as irrelevant. Far from having a "frank conversation" about that highly problematic change in policy, Mr. Holder's Justice Department instead is hiding the change behind bureaucratic smokescreens, spurious claims of legal "privileges" and outright gag orders.
Mr. Holder knows that his sea change in law enforcement would be highly unpopular if discussed openly - and would be subject to serious legal challenge if openly tested in a court of law. Hence his fear, his cowardice, on the issue.
The smoking gun is the department's refusal to fully sanction members of the New Black Panther Party who were charged with voter intimidation for brandishing a nightstick and using threatening racial language at a polling place during the 2008 presidential election. In this case, Mr. Holder appeared to be undermining equal justice under the law...
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Ping!
Cowardice, or is he merely siding with his own kind?
I don’t think Holder is showing “racial cowardice” at all.
He’s showing a blatant, outright agenda, foretelling what he would like to see in our country on a widespread basis.
Eric Holder needs to go! he is dirty and this is a big scandel. Its time to take back America. What about Holder’s former law firm defending all the Gitmo prisoners.
Does anybody in Washington have any intregrity anymore?
btt
Agree completely and he's under Obama's guidance.
“Does anybody in Washington have any intregrity anymore?”
VERY, VERY doubtful, if any do exist, I bet the could be counted on the left paw of a 3-toed sloth!
The people Obama has appointed could form a carnival sideshow - and nearly all of them, such as Holder, unqualified for the job.
“Does anybody in Washington have any intregrity anymore?”
VERY, VERY doubtful, if any do exist, I bet they could be counted on the left paw of a 3-toed sloth!
best reason of all to vote Republican this fall. To control the committees that can initiate and FORCE COMPLIANCE with congressional investigations.
Right now, we come up one short in each committee, in every vote on these things.
If so they're getting awful hard to find.
If ANY non-black American needs MORE proof that that lying bastard in the White House and his minions are a bunch of racists, IN ADDITION to bein a bunch of Marxists, THIS IS IT.
You couldn’t be more right and the Democrat party members are condoning it.
They are a bunch of black racists and self-hating non-blacks.
Black Panther thugs in your way? Nothing a .45 can’t fix. They send one of yours to the hospital... you know the rest
Blatant and outright disregard for codified legislation, aka the law…
But, what would one expect from institutional racism by those claiming to be exempt as a political class and having extra-Constitutional privileges under the color of law while using racism to enact their version of ethnocentrism.
“Does anybody in Washington have any intregrity anymore?”
You are asking for integrity in what Limbaugh has described as “a third-rate whorehouse”.
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