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This is a grossly misleading headline and the OP should be ashamed of behaving like a lib. Read the damn story to see what was ACTUALLY said and the context. It is nothing like the headline. Posting false and inflammatory headlines like this has been happening all too often recently and people assume it is the truth. Even though Holder is an incompetent and divisive boob such behavior should be strongly discouraged.

Okay, I'm reading from Politico, Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'[ From their reporting:

......."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.

"Think about that," Holder said. "When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, [blacks in the South suffered] and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people," [more than the white people in Philadelphia exposed to the black panthers] said Holder, "...............

I don't think the headline is too far off.. The fact that Holder threw in "MY PEOPLE" shows exactly where his heart and allegiance lies....along color lines.

“Think about that,” Holder said. “When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, [blacks in the South suffered] and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people,” [more than the white people in Philadelphia exposed to the black panthers] said Holder, “...............

What I object to are headlines that give the impression someone said something they didn’t. For example “Holder says Whites Can’t Be Victims of Racial Injustice Because They Haven’t Suffered Enough”. In fact he didnt say anything close to that. No where in the article did he say “whites cant be victims racial injustice”, thats just a lie. MAybe we can interpret thats what he meant, but he didnt say it. He also never said whites didnt suffer enough. He just didnt agree that what the panthers did was as bad or worse than what blacks went through as far as voting rights. Thats undoubtedly true, but the congressman specified “during his career”, which is also probably true as the worse voting rights violations happened over 30 years ago.
In short, I’d like to see the interpretation of what people say in the comments section, not the headline.