Holder's remarks are but one more reminder of why it is imperative that President Obama be defeated in November. Our Nation will be unrecognizable if this charade is allowed to continue another four years.
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:20 PM, plainolamerican <plainolamerican@gmail.com> wrote:
When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are---
entitled?
slave mentality
On Apr 2, 4:16 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Return to the Article<http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/04/holders_revenge.html>
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> April 2, 2012 ****
> Holder's Revenge****
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> *By* *John T. Bennett* <http://www.americanthinker.com/john_t_bennett/>****
>> thrown the cycle of racial resentment and favoritism into overdrive.****
> Reverse discrimination against whites has just begun, according to Attorney
> General Eric Holder. Now, the exploitation of Trayvon Martin's death has
>> far in our national conversation about Martin.****
> There has been much poisonous rhetoric following Trayvon Martin's death,
> and more is sure to come. It is hard to imagine that any other current
> topic could result in racial madness exceeding that tragedy. Nonetheless,
> an exceptionally ominous and instructive remark was recently made by
> Attorney General Eric Holder -- a remark more outlandish than any heard so
>> begun<http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/02/24/holder-talks-financial-cr...>:
> Attorney General Holder recently addressed the question of affirmative
> action, and for how long it would be required. He answered, stunningly,
> that reverse discrimination has only just
> "Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices," Holder> When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?"*
> said. "The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin[.] ...
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>> supremacy<http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/critical_race_theory_a_cult_of...>,
> We see in these remarks the soil out of which rises the bitter fruit of
> racial resentment. Holder's attitude is best summed up as the elite victim
> mentality. The belief is one of perpetual entitlement, fueled by
> bitterness, and given the stamp of official approval by politicians at the
> highest levels of national office. The Trayvon Martin upheaval is made
> possible by this carefully cultivated attitude, which exists within all
> income levels. Whether it's under the guise of injustice, inequality,
> underrepresentation, or white
> the effect of the attitude is the same: sheer resentment towards the> majority and its institutions. ****
>> lawsuit<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/nyregion/a-fire-department-under-pr...>against
> Not all minorities share this attitude, while many non-minorities do. For
> instance, Professor William B. Eimicke of Columbia University supports a
> New York City because the city doesn't have enough black> white<http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/wbe1-fac.html>,
> firefighters. Eimicke, who is
> says, "The reality is the [fire] department should look like the city it> predictably impossible to meet.****
> serves." In other words, the fire department has something wrong with it
> because there are not enough blacks employed. This is an example of an
> educated, mainstream leader promoting an arbitrary standard of
> underrepresentation. Such standards will only fuel more demands for special
> treatment, and more resentment when the arbitrary standard proves
>> faculty members<http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/browse_core_faculty....>in
> Take the example of Eimicke's fellow Columbia faculty. Of the 70 core
> Prof. Eimicke's department, there are 3 blacks. Seventy-five percent> favoritism, while firemen are fair game.****
> of
> the faculty is white, and 4% is black, whereas New York City is 45% white
> and 27% black. Presumably, the principle that a fire department "should
> look like the city it serves" also applies to the faculty of a tony
> university. If the faculty "should look like the city it serves," then
> Columbia needs to expedite the removal of white professors. Will Eimicke
> enlist in the righteous cause of minority representation and quit? Or is
> that a sacrifice he prefers to delegate to students or middle- and
> working-class whites? We all know the answer: elite liberal hypocrisy
> protects many academics and politicians from the application of their own
> dogmas. Columbia's faculty will never match the ethnic makeup of New York
> City because professors are typically protected from purported racial
>> racial discourse.****
> As the attorney general's remark shows, the cycle of elite liberal
> hypocrisy and racial favoritism will never end, so long as liberals control
>> Senator James Webb pointed out in his famous *Wall Street Journal*
> In the meantime, the results will become increasingly absurd. The attorney
> general's daughters, and each successive generation, will continue to
> benefit from affirmative action to the same degree as truly disadvantaged
> minorities. This incongruity grows more and more evident, as Democratic
> editorial<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870372410457537963095230...>piece.
> Sen. Webb noted that affirmative action policies have "expanded so> hereditary privileges.****
> far beyond their original purpose that they now favor anyone who does not
> happen to be white." Racial preferences extend to business startups,
> prestigious academic admissions, job promotions, and expensive government
> contracts. Many of these preferences have no relationship to
> discrimination, oppression, or even socioeconomic class level; they even
> benefit recent immigrants whose ancestors never faced discrimination in
> America. Instead, we are actually creating a government-sanctioned nobility
> -- a favored class of citizens with officially endorsed, race-based
>> stated<http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/05/michelle_obamas_early_alienat...>
> Under the sway of of identity politics and racial grievance, even the most
> privileged members of our society will hold onto petty gripes. In a 2009
> commencement address, the First Lady complained about her childhood
> experience with the University of Chicago. Recalling that she grew up right
> near the campus, she
> :****
>> there was a place for me there.****
> [T]hat university never played a meaningful role in my academic
> development. The institution made no effort to reach out to me -- a bright
> and promising student in their midst -- and I had no reason to believe
>> money<http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/18/a-pelosi-maher-go-to-nyc-welfare-of...>"
> That she felt entitled to be "reached out to" in the first place is
> astonishing. The egomaniacal sense of entitlement contained in her remarks
> will strike most people as utterly foreign. Yet this way of conceiving of
> one's own position in society is commonly shared. Amongst the lower class,
> this attitude takes the form of demands for "Obama
> and other such hilarity <http://youtu.be/P36x8rTb3jI>. ****
>> behavior<http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0905/16/cnr.04.html>is
> Perhaps Michelle Obama should have made an effort at some point to
> understand why young white students, many of whom were not from Chicago,
> would have been reticent about venturing out into the South Side of
> Chicago. The reasons are not hard to discover. Immediately after their
> report on the First Lady's address, CNN aired a segment on violent crime on
> the South Side. Chief Ernest Brown of Chicago's Organized Crime Division
> explained the high rate of youth violence by saying that "their
> just inconsistent with civility." With that in mind, many students --> little time there [1].****
> of
> all races -- may not feel that it is their place to step into another
> community and attempt to help its youth. In fact, not even Dr. Martin
> Luther King and his family stayed in urban Chicago for long after starting
> to work in the city in 1966. Cohen and Taylor write that Coretta Scott King
> was concerned about violence in the neighborhood, and the Kings spent
>> people<http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0311/Eric_Holder_Black_Pan...>."
> Our own attorney general, ostensibly committed to even-handed enforcement
> of the nation's laws, referred to blacks as "my
> Strangely, it is socially acceptable for only certain groups to proudly> reaction if a President Bush had identified -- *on the basis of race -*-
> claim ethnic group membership. If similar tribal loyalties were publicly
> boasted by a white ethnic, that would be seen as sinister. Just imagine the
> with a victim of minority-on-white crime by saying, "Channon> Christian<http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=10968229>looks like
> my daughters."
> ****
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> Identifying with an ethnic group as one's own "people" will lead in most
> cases to in-group favoritism. Cultural pride is one thing, but proclaiming
> exclusive ethnic group affiliation while occupying a position of public
> trust is another. This tendency is too often written off as a harmless
> cultural tic or a healthy form of therapeutic identity formation. The
> trouble is that there is a worldview lying beneath the "my people" language.
>> begun<http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/02/24/holder-talks-financial-cr...>:
> In his remarks, the attorney general has provided the most explicit
> statement of ethnic favoritism and racial grievance by a high public
> official in American history. And the racket has just
> "When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are> know the answer.****
> entitled?" asks Holder. The question is rhetorical, and his constituents
>> dependents<http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-02/u-s-food-stamp-use-reache...>
> In this liberal, racialized conception of society, minority groups are
> supposedly not getting "benefits to which they are entitled." The danger in
> this attitude is not just that people are asking for free stuff from the
> government. The danger is that minority group members are made to believe
> that society is purposefully withholding benefits from them due to their
> racial group membership. Hence the resentment and latent animosity lurking
> at the core of the welfare state, and its ever-expanding legion of
> .****
>> resentment<http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/critical_race_theory_a_cult_of...>named
> This menacing fact was once openly recognized by sociologists. Decades ago,
> Edward C. Banfield wrote that urban social problems will increasingly come
> to be regarded as the fault of "callousness or neglect by the 'white power
> structure'" [2]. Just as expected, we now have a cult of anti-white
> Critical Race Theory being taught in law schools around the nation.> ****
>> resentment originally intended for abstract "power structures."****
> The constant use of physical metaphors like "white power structure" will
> guarantee that some people view themselves -- usually falsely -- as being
> intentionally excluded from that structure. Of course, structures comprise
> people, so real human beings will inevitably become targets of the
>> down<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/03/27/dem_congressman_tra...>like
> The victim mentality feeds off racial bitterness, which is constantly
> politicized and enflamed. We see this in the rhetoric of Congresswoman
> Frederica Wilson (D-Florida), who said that Trayvon Martin was "hunted
> a dog." The attorney general and president are doing their part to sow> controversies such as the current one involving Trayvon Martin.****
> the seeds of bitterness, entitlement, and racial favoritism. By
> acknowledging those seeds, one begins to understand why racial double
> standards and potential violence are so easily stirred up amidst
>
> *John T. Bennett (MA, University of Chicago, Master of Arts Program in the
> Social Sciences '07; JD, Emory University School of Law '11) is a writer> living in Atlanta, GA.*****
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