Posted on 04/14/2014 3:47:37 AM PDT by markomalley
When Eric Holder became attorney general in 2009, he declared that when it comes to discussing race, we have become “a nation of cowards.”
Now there’s plenty of discussion of race, some of it swirling around Holder himself.
In recent days, conservative critics have accused Holder of playing the race card to deflect criticism—while his liberal allies believe some of that criticism is racially motivated. It reflects a classic cultural divide in this country and in the media establishment.
Just days ago, I was questioning whether New York Magazine went too far in proclaiming that everything about the Obama presidency was somehow colored by race. The argument this time is over who’s responsible.
What set off the racial fireworks was a Hill confrontation between the nation’s first black attorney general and Rep. Louie Gohmert, who cited the House holding him in contempt two years ago over the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal.
“I realize that contempt is not a big deal to our attorney general but it is important that we have proper oversight,” Gohmert said.
“You don't want to go there, buddy,” Holder shot back.
Holder was steamed, and in a speech the next day to Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, it showed.
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Anyone wonder why we have such a race problem in this country? Seems he and his good buddy odumbo have been promoting it since the day they came into office. Since their debut, race relations in this country have been set back ten fold. Disgraceful!
Leftish race hate is driving minority unemployment. The more they moan about race problems, the less employers want to deal with them.
I can’t stand to even LOOK at the guy ... he resembles a tanned G. Gordon Liddy and that infuriates me !
Democrats don’t want racial harmony. They want a perpetually aggrieved victim class captive on the Dem party plantation.
When someone accuses you of being racist, simply say “I don’t care”......it will floor them.
The top cause of death (2010 statistics) in young black males from ages 15-34 is homicide - actually causing >50% of deaths in the 15-19 age group. It's the number two cause of death in male black children ages 1-4 (~15%).
This is horrible, and should be the topic of a national debate, with the goal of finding solutions. This is not caused by disparities in access to health care. It is not caused by white on black race-based crime. It's not caused by a lack of gun laws, as it happens in cities in which guns laws are the strictest.
I don't know what the answers are, but for this administration to ignore this issue - or refuse to discuss the real contributing causes, is cowardice. It's the kind of cowardice that comes from not wanting to confront the real problems.
I don't personally know all the factors that contribute to this. Clearly gang activity is a big contributor, but this begs the question of why do enough young black males wind up in gangs such that these statistics are on the books? Hopelessness? Well, if so, why, and what are we doing about it? There are significantly larger percentages of young white males committing suicide in these age groups, so if it's just hopelessness, why are the homicide statistics different in these groups.
Is there a contribution of culture? I don't know, but I personally haven't seen a lot of people trying to ‘take down’ the violence-ridden entertainment industry that peddles gang-life glorification. Is it because gang-life gives young black males a sense of ‘family’? If so, why is there this need for a surrogate family - especially given the traditional strength (many decades ago) of the black family?
We could go on and on here, but the point is that we won't do this publicly - because the answers are not always going to fit the narrative that the race-baiters have made their careers pushing. They should be called out, loudly and incessantly, for allowing young black men, and the black community in general, to suffer because their so called leaders, like Holder, lack the courage to have honest discussions and embrace honest fact finding. It appears that their ideology and their personal and political narratives are more important to them than what actually happens in the communities they claim they are representing - and that they claim the rest of us are suppressing.
Shameful.
O.J. did it!
When someone accuses you of being racist, simply say, “You’re projecting again.”….it will infuriate them.
Eric “my people” Holder openly stated in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in June of 2009, that White Americans are NOT protected by federal hate crime laws when they are victims of racially motivated violence. And he has ignored the thousands of racially motivated black on white violent attacks since then that he would have considered to be hate crimes if the races were reversed.
But he is right about one thing, although in a way opposite of the way he meant. We are a nation of cowards, especially the Republican in Congress who are afraid to call him on his corrupt double standard in administering the law.
It would be a winning issue for any Republican who raised the issue and stayed on message despite the tidal wave of slander and vilification that would assault him from the racist left. Millions of white Americans are aware of this onslaught of black on white violence. Their kids see it in the schools, their neighbors see it on the streets, and in their homes. They would be galvanized by a politician of courage who forcibly spoke out against this racist double standard and didnt back down.
The facts are out there. All he would have to do is cite case after case of black on white racially motivated violence and couple that with Holders testimony before the Senate committee and his inaction in prosecuting black on white hate crimes.
It is a winning issue that Holder has handed to the Republicans on a silver platter. But they dont have the guts to speak out against this racist double standard.
Eric Holder considers corruption and incompetence a race issue, pointedly directing his assertion at himself and Obama.
This was never a concern for Howard Kurtz when he was one of the MSM Stasi Stenographers himself before he joined FOX.
Still don’t trust the weasel.
AMEN
Howard Kurtz needs to buy a clue that Holder et al. are a bunch of Alinskyites who are playing racial issues like a cheap piano in order to get their way and destroy the Republic.
Even black schoolkids are wise to what is going on .... one of them was quoted in a TV newsclip about race riots in a high school a couple of months ago. The way she put it was, she had to sympathize somewhat with the white students because "these people are being 'niggerized', and they know it." </language>
Obama wants to establish a minoritarian, antimajoritarian racist regime of his own, and only the wilfully purblind say it ain't so, now.
Note that this was BEFORE welfare broke up families, BEFORE drug gangs, BEFORE violent video games. The black crime rate has ALWAYS been high.
I understand, but I wanted to use recent statistics. I’m not saying that the things I listed are the only reasons. I’m just trying to say that whatever the reasons are, they should be discussed honestly, in trying to find solutions. Ignoring the issues generally in society isn’t the solution.
Why???
For an answer, a strong insight, get hold of and watch the TV series THE WIRE . The program has 5 season and 60 or so episodes depicting the disparate black cultures of Baltimore
Although fiction, the various reasons for the murders are depicted. There is pretty much a culture of death dwelling within what amounts to isolation. A tribal culture that must be genetic has developed and is thriving in spite of the high death rate. It can be viewed as Darwinian survival of the fittest .
One attribute of being fit is cunning. Cunning overcomes fit. Fit can be bought.
There is in some a desire to leave but the desire to stay within the bounds of the known overcomes the fear of the unknown.
The end result is there is no solution. Deetroit is the end result and it takes a very long time for the decay to finally rot away the ability to live.
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