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Posted on 01/14/2011 3:45:18 PM PST by jazusamo
Complete title: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Helped ‘Plant the Seeds’ for ‘Environmental Justice Movement,’ Says Attorney General Holder
(CNSNews.com) -- Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday said Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. helped “plant the seeds” of the “environmental justice movement,” which Holder called a “civil rights issue” that is a “high priority” for the Justice Department.
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At the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Civil Rights, in an Affirmative Employment and Diversity Staff event to honor Dr. King, Holder said: “Unlike [EPA] Administrator Jackson, I am old enough to have witnessed -- it’s sad but true. I am old to enough to have witnessed and experienced the remarkable progress that’s been made since the 1960s when Dr. King, in addition to his many other achievements, helped to plant the seeds for what would become our nation’s now-thriving environmental justice movement.”
Holder continued, “Dr. King did not have the chance to witness the impact of the movement that he began. But he left with us the creed that continues to guide our work. His enduring words, which he penned from a Birmingham jail cell, still remind us that, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’”
He also said, “Together we are approaching environmental justice just as what it is: It is a civil rights issue. By examining environmental requirements in conjunction with our civil rights laws, I am confident that we can do a better job of assuring fairness and advancing justice.”
Later in his remarks, Holder cited a 2005 report based on EPA data which showed that African Americans were almost 80 percent more likely than white Americans to live near hazardous industrial pollution sites. He said issues like this still exist today.
“In 2011, the burden of environmental degradation still falls disproportionately on low-income communities and communities of color, and most often on their youngest residents: our children, my children,” he told the audience at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington.
“This is unacceptable. And it is unconscionable. But through the aggressive enforcement of federal environmental laws in every community, I believe that we can – and I know that we must – change the status quo.”
Holder, the keynote speaker at the event which also featured EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, said “environmental justice” is also a “personal calling.”
“I want you to know that – at every level of the Justice Department, just like here at the EPA – this work is a top priority,” he said, adding, “and, for me, it is also a personal calling,” he said.
After his speech, Scott Fulton, the EPA’s general counsel, and Dominique Lueckenhoff, the associate director of the Water Protection Division at the EPA, performed “Free at Last” for the audience, a gospel song written by Fulton, according to the event’s program.
It's a shame Holder doesn't feel the same about voter intimidation and voting rights law as put forth in the MOVE Act for military and overseas voters.
My Govenor just told the NAACP to ‘kiss my butt’.
The time’s they are a changin’
I saw that and good for him.
Holder jumping on this environmental justice thing is pathetic, it’s little more than a sham.
I wonder how many leftists continue to deny that MLK, Jr. was a registered Republican? In fact, several past and present members of the King family are registered Republicans.
Holder pushed the show-trial of KSM in NYC.
Holder declines to prosecute planner of Cole bombing (2000).
Holder no doubt compliant in letting Lockerbie bomber free.
Holder no problemo with prosecuting whites-only.
Holder down with the black panther thugs at Detroit polling place.
Holder warrants censure, removal, prosecution.
Enviromental justice? Banning DDT on cooked evidence kills a million children a year.
That kind of "enviromental justice" makes one a war criminal at the level of Eichmann et al.
Further this deponent sayeth not.
I think MLK must be rolling over in his grave. More profiteering all in the name of “civil rights.”
Thanks, Phil. He’s definitely a person who should not be the top law enforcement officer in our nation.
It is downright pathetic to have a holiday honoring this commie. Even more pathetic that a marxist, racist POC like Holder could be AG
Thanx, syf! :-)
I just knew it wouldn't be long before the MLK = GOP canard started popping up here on FR. As we approach "his day", that appears like clockwork here. I know because I've been reading a long time in spite of my recent born on date. I was hoping that the zotting of Non-Sequitur would put an end to this meme.
Absolutely. I'm nearly certain that Martin Marxist Luther King may have voted for some candidates with 'R' beside their name. Were he alive today, I'd suppose he would support the likes of Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe as well as other RINOs.
But MLK as a Constitutional Conservative? I and others with far more tenure here certainly think not.
THANK YOU! Thank You!
The notion that MLK would be just one teeny step removed from being a FReeper has got to be debunked. At best, he was a RINO. The reality is that he was a pro-union, anti-military Fifth Columnist.
The King legacy?
Jesse Jackson
Affirmative Action
Poverty Pimps
Race Hustlers
Reparations
He was as much of a "minister" as is Al Sharpton. He didn't preach the Gospel of Salvation through Jesus Christ but harped endlessly on the false doctrine of "social justice", all the while satisfying his adulterous lifestyle.
Hard to believe King was a real Republican since he supported a Viet Cong victory. He wasn’t just anti war. He actively wanted the enemy to win. For that reason alone he does not deserve a holiday but there is no way in our PC world you could ever argue this issue.
The “Reverend Doctor” did a lot of “seed planting” when he was alive it appears:
4) IMMORAL AND ABUSIVE BEHAVIOR: Dr. King had an ample reputation as a philanderer and abuser of women of ill repute. The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover had run surveillance on King and his entourage for years attempting to gather data on his Communist connections. While the Bureau did surveill King’s attendance at Communist meetings, but most of the surveillance records show an extreme preoccupation after hours with illicit sex. In deference to King’s usefulness in promoting a national holiday for civil rights, US Federal judge John Lewis Smith, Jr. ordered all the FBI records sealed up in the National Archives for 50 years (till 2027). When I was Executive Editor of Conservative Digest, I called retired Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray and asked him what was in the evidence locked away. His answer surprised me. He said there were approximately 15 file cabinets of evidence on King—14 of them were full of recordings and transcripts of his illicit relationships with prostitutes. Only one file cabinet contained evidence of his Communist relationships.
Even former co-workers have blown the whistle on King’s scurrilous conduct. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, in his book, And the Wall Came Tumbling Down, King spent his last night in the motel having an immoral liason with three women and then beat one of the woman in the morning before he was shot. Assistant Director of the FBI Charles D. Brennan wrote a letter to Sen. John P. East (R-NC) in which he stated that King’s conduct consisted of “orgiastic and adulterous escapades, some of which indicated that King could be bestial in his sexual abuse of women.” The FBI surveillance records covering his first night in Stockholm, Sweden, where he was to receive the Noble Peace Prize, document that his only interest was how to secure prostitutes for he and his entourage. An orgy followed. King’s surveillance and wiretaps were personally authorized by then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. If these allegations are true, this man should never have been put forward as a national hero. Yes, I am aware that other national heroes have had there weaknesses, but King’s conduct borders on a Clinton-like sexual addiction.
http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com/keytopics/MLK.shtml
In the event I forget to tell you all on Monday:
“Happy Martin Luther (the) King day from (Martin Luther) King County, WA.
— St. Marty's thoughts on President Ronald Wilson Reagan
Some Republican, this MLK guy, eh? /s
I was disappointed Reagan signed off on that bill but I guess he figured the firestorm that would have followed was not worth it. He would have easily been overridden by Congress. Only a few stalwarts like Jesse Helms did the right thing.
Funny...I don’t remember MLK spouting such nonsense back then, especially since it wasn’t on anyone’s radar in the ‘60s.
He’s lying...
Nice posting, Phil!
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