Posted on 07/19/2013 9:32:44 AM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
Eric Holder dismissed America as a "nation of cowards" because we wouldn't, he argued, have a "national conversation" about race. It's a slander wrapped in a farce. We talk of race unremittingly. That's the farce. The slander is hydra-headed.
No honest conversation about race is possible when accusations of racism replace reasoned arguments. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, who mentioned high rates of crime among black males, was rewarded with the racist label within minutes by some of those (The Atlantic, Slate) who presumably agree with Holder that we are too timid when discussing race.
Many American liberals are achingly nostalgic for old-fashioned racism. It offered them a helium high of moral superiority. It was deserved ... in 1967. But by perpetuating the fiction that modern America has not changed, they've become more than ridiculous, more even than grossly unjust, they've become dangerous. Look around you. The violence and bitterness that have followed the Zimmerman verdict were virtually ordered up by convicted slanderer Al Sharpton and his many imitators.
The Zimmerman case was complicated. Any fair-minded person could see that it was difficult to conclude that Zimmerman was not acting in self-defense (however unwise his initial actions may have been). But the racial-grievance industrial complex doesn't permit complexity. Racial enmity is their living. Stirring feelings of victimization and injustice among blacks and, to a lesser extent, among other designated minorities is their delight.
When you consider the steady agitprop churned out by the racial-grievance industrial complex, it's amazing that race relations aren't worse.
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Someone in my office told me that Holder has refused to allow Zimmerman to get his handgun returned to him. If this is true, I am amazed at this a-hole’s hubris. He has no authority of the State of Florida over who does and does not get to own a handgun.
1. Does any rational person believe that Eric Holder does not understand that his actions, both before & after the Zimmerman acquittal, are actually aimed at obstructing justice--not furthering it? It is not justice to stir a lynch mob against an innocent man, for ulterior political purposes.
2. Does anyone not see how ludicrous it is for Holder & his Media enablers to identify the cause of American Negroes with the worst elements of their race, rather than those who actually live moral lives, pursuing worthy goals, and benefiting America in doing so? Is this whole gambit not an insult to millions of Black Americans, who are not out sucker punching neighborhood watch volunteers? (Think how absurd it would be if White leaders decided to no longer look to such role models as the Founding Fathers, and embraced instead demands for altering our culture, to put more efforts into explaining away the actions of the White criminal, while blaming his problems on those who live according to traditional principles.)
3. After "Fast & Furious," does the House of Representatives not see its duty in starting the process to remove Holder? Were they not already on notice that the Chief Legal Officer of the Federal Government is a "scoff-law," not a defender of justice? Is stirring up race riots in American cities, over a just verdict, in order to intimidate our people, not so clearly criminal as to mandate impeachment?
Does anybody dissent from this analysis?
William Flax
Holder would run, like the coward he is, if he could not control both ends of any conversation in which he might engage.
Holder’s not saying Zimmerman can’t own a handgun; he’s saying Zimmerman can’t own “that” handgun - he’s placing a “hold” on it as evidence for Zimmerman’s civil-rights-violation trial.
Small comfort.
She has nailed it.
Holder couldn’t handle an honest conversation about race. What he is really slithering around for is more race-baiting and white guilt peddling.
I dissent - you’re far too kind.
It is absolutely impossible to have an honest debate with any Progressive as you are debating with a person so dishonest that they hide their communist belief behind a nice wordsmithed word of Progressive.
6.5% of the USA population commits 50+% of all crimes.
Holder says that’s racist. I say its fact.
Blacks kill each other at a much higher rate than any other group kills blacks. Holder says that’s racist. I say is fact.
That’s the problem with debating liberal progressives even facts are racist as they cannot refute what you say so its the old race card.
Screw them all! We tried the great society, the war on poverty, early government school (stupid beyond belief), redistribution of wealth (government theft), Affirmative Action (government discrimination), set asides, different grading systems, different job application requirements and it still is not enough.
No need to discuss further as every discussion ends up with more government discrimination and oppression by the minority on the majority.
No dissent, but I feel the analysis is incomplete without mentioning Holder’s dimissal of the NBP’s federal race hate crime against white voters in Philadelphia during the ‘08 election.
Has a white AG ever dismissed federal charges against the KKK?
Same for the word "conversation". That's not what he and Obama want. Lecturing and name-calling are not "conversations".
SURPRISE!!! Blacks are just as racist, if not MORE racist than any other single group of people. Their blind allegiance to Trayvon, without any regard for what REALLY happened in that case is case and point!
William Flax
Just understand the power of understatement.
And why is that? They know that they are not on the high ground. They want to focus their attacks, once again, at the compassionate side of Americans to paralyze us with guilty feelings and thus submission.
I don't think he even has the authority to do that.
The handgun is not evidence in any trial whatsoever. No charge or tort has been filed for any civil rights violation. Gathering evidence before that happens violates the 4th amendment (yeah, I know, I know). The pistol can be returned to him under the authority of the State of Florida while they tell Holder to go p!$$ up a rope. If, in fact, anyone in the State house had any kind of balls.
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