Posted on 03/04/2011 4:29:46 AM PST by Scanian
My fellow Americans, who are "your people"? I ask because US Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase "my people" in congressional testimony this week. It was an unmistakably color-coded and exclusionary reference intended to deflect criticism of the Obama Justice Department's selective enforcement policies. It backfired.
In pandering to identity politics and exacerbating race consciousness, Holder has given the rest of us an opportunity to stand up, identify "our people" and show the liberal poseurs what post-racialism really looks like.
Herman Cain is my people. I've never met him, but we are kin because we are unhyphenated Americans comfortable in the black, brown and yellow skin we're in. We are growing in numbers on college campuses, in elected office, on the Internet.
Cain is the successful Georgia businessman who has wowed audiences with his passion for free markets, free minds and the American Dream. The former president of Godfather's Pizza and forceful Tea Party speaker happens to be black. So he must pay the price that all minority conservatives in public life must pay. A cowardly liberal writer recently derided Cain as a "monkey in the window" and a "minstrel" who performs for his "masters."
Race traitors. Sellouts. Self-haters. I've heard it for nearly 20 years in public life. Every outspoken minority conservative has.
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My people are rodents.
And lagomorphs.
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Mike
I have decided that from this point forward I will refer to black people only as “Holder’s people”. It’s funny, it’s ridicule, and it’s safe from the whiny cries of “racism”. After all, the Attorney General has declared them as his people, so be it.
This whole bunch is “a people” of lizards like on “V”.
Great idea! (Now do "Holder's People" have to call him "Massa"?)
If a White person had said “my people” or “you people” it would be all over the cable networks.
Double standards are alive and well.
Herman Caine is going to be a heavyweight in the coming election. He has my vote.
Ross Perot made the mistake of using the expression "your people" in a 1992 speech to NAACP members.
Can anyone here think of a single useful thing that Holder has done?
In his position, such a comment is grounds for dismissal.
Of course it is. But Holder’s boss is even worse than he is, so what can be done to get rid of him?
I’d like to get rid of the both of them but fat chance.
We just have to resist and fight for another 20 months and hope that 1) elections actually take place and 2) if they do and we win, that the Obamanoids make a fast exit
Well .. for one, he's given us FReepers plenty of opportunities to Mock Him for being a STOO-PID™ asshat. And in doing so he's kept us occupied and given us chances to improve our typing skills :-)
Other than that, the guy isn't as useful as a coat rack.
Since his job mainly (should) consist of enforcing federal law, one would think that there would have been one or two instances in which he did something to defend the interests of America and the American people but I can’t think of a single one.
And neither can anyone else on the board, apparently.
“our people” = My Tribe
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