Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'

Politico.com ^ | March 01, 2011 | Josh Gerstein

[ColdOne]

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.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

From the Politico???

Wow...scales are dropping from the eyes. Holder will be tendering his resignation, when???

I know, I know...I crack myself up too...anyone ‘else’ and THAT quote would be career ending.

[MHGinTN]

Not quite, but close. Liberal Black America is the problem and the deadly snake in the Black population, now responsible for the genocide of tens of millions of black unborn children. West, Thomas, Sowell, Walter Williams, these men and Ladies like Condi Rice are not the problem you describe.

[Little Pharma]

They owned property, including a club house which was taken over by the litigants and turned into a community center. I think I also remember that they were a non-profit and had to keep records.

[Responsibility2nd]

For Eric and all of you people.

 

Have a shirt. Either a White one or a Black one...

 

 

[ichabod1]

Feh. Actually, they don’t like the shoe being on the other foot. They don’t LIKE all the white folks being forced to ride in the back of the bus, or keep their eyes downcast. Because they know deep down they are still not liked, still not admired, still not respected, and they never will be as long as they keep up with the attitude.

[triumphant values]

Department of “Just Us”

No Just Us, No Peas.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Obama’s holiday recess appontments put radical progressives on the civil rights committee and the new Dept Of Justice terrorist appeaser Cole- making the NBP investigation come to a screeching halt and no one says a word...

[ichabod1]

So - is it now OK for us to refer to Holder and the Black Panthers as ... You People

No it is not. It is not acceptable any more than, while it's ok to call someone a 'person of color' it is not ok to call them a 'colored person."

[americanophile]

Fire this incompetent, racist, POS!

[nathanbedford]

Clearly, you are a person of great discernment. :-)

Seriously, thanks for the compliment.

[JaguarXKE]

I remember when Ross “ears” Perot got into hot water for saying “ You people.”

[NoLibZone]

His people SHOULD BE the citizens of the US.

[triumphant values]

Yes, let’s make sure we always qualify our statements because of that significant 3% who aren’t liberal.

[ichabod1]

BIG difference. Blacks are not the majority here and they never will be. They need to stop worrying about white and being more concerned about brown. And yellow.

[DCBryan1]

Have a White one or a Black one "for you people"

I'll take the WHITE one, with a Glock 21 tucked inside an inside-the-belt holster, and a level IIIa concealable vest please.

[rawhide]

If the color of the people involved had been reversed, ask Holder would his Justice Dept have prosecuted them? You bet you last dollar he would!!!!

[Colonel_Flagg]

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.

Considering I'm personally offended by Eric Holder, I guess that makes us even.

[triumphant values]

Welfare just about destroyed the Black family in the U. S. Something like 65 to 70% of all births to Black women, are to single unmarried women.

Ok, so explain why it did so much more damage to them than other groups.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

So who’s really the COWARD about race? Hmmmmm?

[DCBryan1]

If the color of the people involved had been reversed, ask Holder would his Justice Dept have prosecuted them? You bet you last dollar he would!!!!

Imagine David Duke, or Senator Byrd in their Ku Klux Klan robes riding a white horse in front of a black polling station. What do you think if AG Ascroft had said that the dismissal of charges/refusal to charge demeaned "his people". Watts 2/LA riots 2 I tell ya.