politico - 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. - Continue reading > >
Blog author's comments - The Attorney General of the United States is supposed to represent all people equally. There should not be any preferential treatment with regard to race.
Because the KKK harassed blacks in the 60's, should not enter into the Attorney General's decision making with regard to who breaks the law. He made a very telling comment by saying "my people" not the people.
What he said does not surprise me. Many on the left thought that race relations would improve with Barack Obama as our president. I don't believe that has happened. I think just the opposite has occurred.
