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.
We are certainly witnessing the wisdom of those words today.
They think they can partake of greatness by destroying it
“What school actually gave this clown a law degree?”
A: Probably the same imaginary school that gave Hussein his imaginary degree.
I want to hear about this in the Republican primary. I want to hear a candidate stand up and declare direct opposition to the policies of our Attorney General Rev Wright.
That’s the kind of candidate I am looking for. The opposite of a John McCain “Barack Obama is a nice guy” candidate.
Any gun, even a handgun, WILL get you a better gun.
These people have blinders on. The history of the world is riddled with conquerers and the conquered. generally the conquered became slaves. All who have been through this celebrate their freedom but not this guy. For a progressive, he spends a whole lot of time “looking back”. How much injustice can there still be if we have a black president, first lady, AG, etc.? This guy is a hypocrite and a racist.
So, it looks like blacks are not ready to hold office in this country.
“my people?” so now he’s only the AG for “his people?” My great-grandfather fought in the Civil war for “his people.” My father lost his job to integrate the Houston Bus Terminal for “his people.” So my voting rights aren’t as valuable as those of “his people?” I hate this administration. I thought Clinton was bad. I actually voted for Carter but realize that his was bad. This is worse.
Holder and his ilk are precisely why this problem will never be fixed. What we have in this country are two camps of people diametrically opposed to one and of competing interests. Worse, the Federal Gov’t, regardless of who’s in the WH or the Congress has become more like unto a Foriegn gov’t because it’s subject to more and more strictures imposed upon it by the so-called International Community, (Global Marxists at the UN, IMF and World Bank). This means that every election will be a race based Cold Race War competition between the two competing interests. When Holder’s side wins.....the downward spiral of the fortunes of the Anglo community accelerates sharply; when the opposing side wins, the downward spiral of those same fortunes decelerates. Notice that the downward spiral “decelerates” but the direction remains the same....”downward”. The only real way to “level” the playing field is to severely restrict the powers of the U.S Federal Gov’t and return powers to the State and Local governments.
That will probably never happen to a degree sufficient to level the playing field.
Same goes for his boss!
I’m afraid he can’t be a racist if he is of African American decent.
I think that’s some type of common knowledge these days.
It’s sad that people and politicians are still comparing what happened many years ago to what is going on today. They are completely different situations.
If the ‘Pubbies (and any decent Democrats) don’t start IMMEDIATE impeachment proceedings against Holder, they’re a complete loss. Its is patently obvious to most casual observer that this is malfeasance and an impeachable offense.
He’s sure doing his level best to see that whites DO suffer enough .. his four short years in office (hopefully not 8) will more than offset 200 years of slavery and any other grievance he harbors.
We are a “nation of cowards” if we allow an Attorney General like Holder to continue holding his office.
Contact your Congresscritters:
Dear Representative Price:
I have the pleasure of living your district, and I support you and the Tea Party that helped elect you.
The statement by Attorney General Eric Holder statement to the effect of:
“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.”
“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.”
Seems to indicate that he is unwilling to enforce laws in the present day because they don’t come up past “historical” standards for offense. Frankly, this is malfeasance. Past offenses have no bearing on current enforcement of the law. If the man will not do his duty he needs to be removed. I am wondering when the impeachment proceedings will begin.
I am looking for to hearing from your office on this matter.
Thank you.
By looking at him you would think he was a Canadian.
Add my name to the list of “This guy needs to GO”...
Do you hear us now, Congress????????
And if you believe in the “one drop” rule that it takes only one drop of black blood to make you “black” and agree that we all descend from the African “Eve”, then we ALL be down with the struggle...
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