Re: Attorney General Eric Holder says focus on Black Panther case demeans "my people"

Strikes me that with the failure to pursue the case he is doing more demeaning that anyone else.   I would think he would want his people not to be lumped in with people who act as the New Black Panther Party people did at that polling place or be associated with all the crime and drugs or be so prone to abortion or be so tied up in not acting white by doing so poorly in school.  There are many reasons for the high unemployment of young black men and their education and actions have a lot to do with that.  It depends in large part on how you want your product or services presented to the public if you are the employer.  some of it is probably based on racism but most of it is not.

On 03/02/2011 11:03 AM, Travis wrote:

Attorney General Eric Holder says focus on Black Panther case demeans "my people" Scotty Starnes | March 1, 2011 at 2:58 PM | Tags: Attorney General Eric Holder, Bartle Bull, Civil Rights Commission, Eric Holder, Justice Department, New Black Panther Party, racism, Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), voter intimidation | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-4Bj

"I swear to only uphold the laws that protect MY PEOPLE"

This is the same asshole who stated that Americans were cowards on the issue of race. Now that we have a case where members of a black nationalism group intimidated white voters, only to have the Eric Holder-led DOJ drop charges. Holder is tired of being asked why his DOJ dropped charges and claims that asking for clarification demeans 'his people.'

Someone has a problem with race and it seems to be Attorney General Eric Holder.

Politico reports:

Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American.

Holder's frustration over the criticism became evident during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing as Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) accused the Justice Department of failing to cooperate with a Civil Rights Commission investigation into the handling of the 2008 incident in which Black Panthers in intimidating outfits and wielding a club stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia.

The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.

"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.

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