Blogmocracy in Action!
Guest post by: Huckfunn!
Attorney General Eric Holder uttered the following astonishing words yesterday in a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing while being questioned about DOJ’s handling of the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case:
“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, 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,” said Holder, who is black.
“To compare that kind of courage, that kind of action, and to say that the Black Panther incident wrong thought it might be somehow is greater in magnitude or is of greater concern to us, historically, I think just flies in the face of history and the facts.,” Holder said with evident exasperation.
The last time I checked, the Attorney General is supposed to defend the laws of the United States for all of its citizens, not just “his people”. Holder’s statement is illustrative of the bigoted direction the DOJ has taken since he became AG. His handling of the Pigford Settlement and the New Black Panthers case show that he sees himself as leading a movement of reparations and comeuppance for blacks rather than providing equal protection under the law for all U.S. citizens regardless of race.
The other part of this story is the deafening silence of the MSM. I googled the phrase “Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans ‘my people’” and the only news outlet to run the story is Fox where you can see the actual video here:
There are many blog sites that are carrying the story, notably Politico and Breitbart’s “Big Journalism”
When the same phrase is entered at Youtube, you get a black screen that says “This video has been removed by the user. Sorry about that”.
ABC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC all have front page stories about Huckabee’s misstatement that Obama was born in Kenya but not a single word about the top cop in the land confirming once and for all that his view of “justice” is utterly bigoted.
