Posted on 03/02/2011 9:23:22 AM PST by smoothsailing
HOLDER: Whites Can’t Be Victims of Racial Injustice Because They Haven’t Suffered Enough
Johnathon Burns
March 2, 2011
Or, The Continuing Media Narrative of ‘Acceptable’ Racism.
Dr. King once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Apparently, US Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t get the memo.
As reported and applauded by Politico, Holder announced Tuesday that he was fed up with listening to whining whites who claim the justice department deliberately blocks investigations of black on white racism. Predictably, the Establishment media sides with Holder.
“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, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia, which was inappropriate .. .to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people,” said Holder, who is black.
Holder noted that his late sister-in-law, Vivian Malone Jones, helped integrate the University of Alabama.
“To compare that kind of courage, that kind of action, to say some Black Panther incident is of greater concern to us, historically, I think just flies in the face of history,” Holder said with evident exasperation.”
So the obvious takeaway from this is that some racism is worse than others. Some racist injustice is worthy of prosecution, other racism is not. Apparently, whites simply haven’t suffered enough. They don’t deserve legal protection. So, any injustices committed against white people should be swept under the rug. It’s not worth Eric Holder’s time.
One might be shocked by the statements. One might even wonder why the media chooses not to attack Holder for his patently racist statements. After all, were a white man to suggest this, his career would be over in a hail of media machine-gun fire. Reporters would fall over themselves to attack him, and his family would be ruthlessly attacked in the community. His kids would have to stay home from school (assuming their teachers weren’t on strike, anyway), and he’d get hate mail and death threats for decades.
But the Establishment Media’s lack of moral indignation isn’t surprising. In America, it’s blasphemous to even suggest that whites could be victims of racial injustice.
Whites are the permanent “oppressors” in the mainstream media narrative, while all other races are the permanent “victims.” In fact, “white” and “oppressor” are essentially synonymous — meaning: whites are the bad guys. All whites have been lumped together and typecast in a bad reality TV show. Because whites as a group do not have clean hands, therefore, they are denied the right of seeking justice.
If that isn’t stereotyping, I don’t know what is.
The larger issue, of course, is that “whites as racists” constitutes the fundamental lens through which Holder views issues in America. During the healthcare debate, Holder likened opposition of Obamacare to opposition to civil rights. Not civil rights in the sense that, “all Americans share civil rights,” mind you, but “Civil Rights” as in the struggle for black legal equality in America during the 40’s-60’s. Translation: those who oppose Obamacare are racists. Such language is naked race-baiting and scapegoating. But Holder doesn’t care. Whites are the bad guy bogeymen, trotted out when it gets tough to pass legislation. And his recent comments reveal his paradigm: white Americans are generally racist and any time they oppose any Obama policy or “injustice” at the hands of a racist group, they’re either being racists or they’re simply not entitled to equal protection because they haven’t suffered as much as other groups.
Nobody is seeking to belittle the suffering of other people, here, but America seeks equality. This means equal protection under the law, not equality in historical racial suffering.
Holder’s statements are completely sadistic, and they betray his motives. He has a score to settle, and by his figure whites have a lot more suffering to endure before they have a right to expect justice from the “Justice Department.” Satisfying vendettas is for Mob Bosses, not the US Attorney General’s Office.
The Establishment media’s silence regarding his racist statements demonstrates agreement and approval. Such hypocrisy. Such shame. Such racism.
Why can’t blacks just simply memorialize the Slave that they all seem to associate with as their ancestor and BE DONE WITH IT, be HAPPY they are no longer slaves, and just be happy people in general?
They’re all just so angry all the time ...(no wonder they suffer such high rates of hypertension.)
Just think...the Attorney General of this country is a racist. This is yet another disgusting reality we must face. A damn racist!
He looks like a Holder, a holder of something I don’t care to name.
Does he know the suffering in Africa; at the hands of 'whom' and their color?. . .?
We may as well have Charlie Sheen for Attorney General. . .disgusting. This should not stand; but, no doubt; it will.
Ping for WTF meter bouncing off the scale.
This is exactly what they teach in race and oppression “classes” at the universities.
People have to actually sit through this crap and pretend they agree just to get the green light to teach.
No?
So the whites that helped “his people” those were the “good white people”.
These whites in Philadelphia they deserve no respect because they were threatened by blacks, and that doesn’t count.
That the republican leadership is not demanding his resignation, sadly speaks volumes.
F this, I want reparations.
Are you FRickin’ kidding me?!?! Some of my ancestors were indentured servants (HELLOOOOOOOO, ERIC, IT WASN’T LIVING HIGH ON THE HOG FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE WHITE!!!! >:-(
I myself have dealt with some ‘reverse discrimination’—years ago when I was teaching I was commuting 26 miles each way every day, 5 days a week...even back then gas was using up a huge chunk of my paycheck. I worked for DISD in inner city Dallas, and upon researching various schools in the district, found one that would have made my drive drop to 5 miles each way every day—plus they had an opening that was PERFECT for me, ESL teaching!!
I set up an appointment with the principal, went to the school, visited the classroom, loved the location (suburbs) plus the shorter commute—principal told me they were having a terrible time filling the position (original teacher’s husband was transferred and they moved out of state), she LOVED my resume, and I remember thinking, THIS JOB IS *MINE*.
Right until she told me she couldn’t hire me.
Why? She told me this ‘off the record’ because she was as disgusted as I was.
Because I wasn’t BLACK or HISPANIC, and the school had a ‘quota’ to fill. I couldn’t believe it! She had just told me that this classroom of kids had been having a multitude of substitutes because they couldn’t fill the position with a *qualified* person...so my white skin color disqualified me from helping those kids (not bragging, but I was an EXCELLENT ESL teacher!) and throughout the school year I would check the job opening posts and the position remained open for the remainder of the school year. :-(
FEH on that bigoted racist Eric Holder and his bigoted “acting stupidly” friend in the White House. I can see 2012 from my house!
You don’t have to go back to the revolution, the “Philadelphia whites” would be among those who fought and died in the civil war that freed the slaves.
Holder is despicable.
Mr Holder, (may I call you ‘Mister’ instead of ‘boy’?) I have suffered and have a, uhm, birth certificate to prove it! May I be your friend?
****Sigh****
There are times I really think the Earth has gone through a portal to another dimension.
“we have a Klan of Black Racists in the white house.”
Yep1 “The klan with a tan.”
If you think he got all wee wee’d up on that one, just wait until they explain to him that the “-” in African-American is a hyphen and NOT a minus sign.
Holder is a proud Rodent-American (though I’m not so sure about the American part).
“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.
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