AG Holder: Black Panther Case Demeans "My People"......Really.

[twyacht]

WTF is this guy doing? Between the Black Panthers, ATF, anti gun, BHO puppet.....etc,.....etc,...

What if a "white Republican said this"?

http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0311/Eric_Holder_Black_Panther_case_focus_demeans_my_people.html

March 01, 2011

Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'

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, 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.

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, 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.

In a series of questions and comments earlier in the hearing, Culberson insisted that race had infected the decision-making process. "There’s clearly evidence, overwhelming evidence, that your Department of Justice refuses to protect the rights of anybody other than African Americans to vote," the Texas Republican said. "There's a pattern of a double standard here."

“I would disagree very vehemently with the notion that there’s overwhelming evidence that that is in fact true,” Holder replied. “This Department of Justice does not enforce the law in a race-conscious way.”

Rep. Chaka Fattah, a Democrat from Philadelphia, said the Black Panthers "should not have been there." But he said the GOP was making too much out of a fleeting incident involving a couple of people.

"The most unethical thing a person can do is make allegations based on absolutely nothing," Fattah said. "The only issue of race is singling out this particular decision...That this rises to national significance is bogus on its face."

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As a disciple of Janet Reno, I expect another Ruby Ridge, or Waco within the next two years, as the State of Az, gets sued for what should be a Fed. enforcement issue.

An anti gun order, with the corrupt aspects of the ATF, and a willing POTUS. This guy, like others in the current admin, forget the Constitution, for personal gains....

[Frosty]

Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'

He really can't claim being black, isn't Holder half/part white just like Obama? I do believe that the 60's are well over, past and are history. If the same incident had involved whites then al & jesse would have been all over it and would have pushed it to the limits. I put deadfish in the same catagory as al & jesse. they make a living by keeping racism alive.

[tt11758]

This guy, like others in the current admin, forget the Constitution, for personal gains....

Before one can forget the Constitution they must first be acquainted with it.

[tombogan03884]

When he refers to "his people" he does not mean blacks.
He is referring to violent anti American scumbags, remember, this is the same POS who convinced Clinton to pardon Puerto Rican terrorists.

[MikeBjerum]

That statement and the inclusion of his stating what he meant by "my people" was his resignation or the number one piece of evidence in the law suit to remove him from his position.  This isn't a matter of "what if a white person had said this."  This is a matter of going completely against every civil rights legislation and ruling since 1865!

What would Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. say to Mr. Holder?  My guess is "You stupid nigger!!!  What were you thinking?  Or were you thinking at all?"

The paranoid side of me says this is just like when Hillary and Pelosi wanted to go after guns in February of 2009.  This is the verbal slip that the election of 2008 opened the door not to equality and advancement in our nation.  The election of 2008 opened the door to revenge and the loosing of centuries of hate!

[Sponsor]

[alfsauve]

"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….[/i]

So what he's saying is it's okay to break the law today, 'cause they were discriminated against 50 years ago?

[twyacht]

So what he's saying is it's okay to break the law today, 'cause they were discriminated against 50 years ago?

Hence the Pigford Settlement, which is also rampant with corruption, and being exposed as a fraud, and getting worse by the day.