Monday, July 12, 2010

Profiles in Racial Courage



Attorney General Eric Holder, who famously declared that America is "a nation of cowards" on matters of race, has announced that he'll file yet another lawsuit against Arizona if their attempt to stem the tide of illegal Mexican immigrants focuses on people who look Mexican.

Using the same powerful "anti-profiling" logic that requires wheelchair-bound grandmothers to be strip-searched in airports, Holder wants to make sure that Arizona's police completely ignore
a person's ethnicity and language when considering whether or not the person might actually be a Mexican who is here illegally.

This is the same Eric Holder who was recently thanked by the New Black Panthers for his role in throwing out the infamous voter intimidation case in which armed, uniformed Black Panthers threatened white voters to help ensure Barack Obama's election. According to one Department of Justice official, the mood in the Attorney General's office is that it's now "payback time" for white citizens to suffer.

So maybe when it comes to race, we're not actually a nation of cowards. We're a nation of people in fear of an out-of-control Attorney General.

8 comments:

drjim said...

I can't believe how far in the crapper the USA has gone since that fateful November.

Emmentaler Limburger said...

Racial profiling. Pshaw. What a bunch or morons we've all become? PCing ourselves right into the history books. And, on that subject, how is it that a redneck white guy spouting racist comments is guilty of hate speech, ostracized, put on federal watch lists, etc., etc., etc.; yet this King Samir Shabazz can spout off about "dirty white whore bitches" and killing "crackers" and "cracker babies" on a public street corner without having his racist ass hauled off to the pokey?! Oh, yeah. Forgot. Holder and The Big 0 are his buds...

Buzz Bannister said...

Uh...^^^Ditto!!!^^^

Anonymous said...

OK, but is Eric Holder going to sue Rhode Island where the police have been asking to see green cards since 2008? If so, why didn't he sue them in 2009 when he first became Attorney General?

http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2010/07/06/ri_troopers_embrace_firm_immigration_role/

Stilton Jarlsberg said...

Readers- The Obama/Holder position on these issues is all about hypocrisy, racism (for, not against), and politics.

And this will be one of the saddest legacies of this administration; if nothing else, Barack Obama was elected because there was a real desire in this country for racial healing...and this president was uniquely positioned to finally make it happen.

But Obama betrayed all Americans, regardless of race, because racism is still a potent source of political power. And so this president stokes ethnic division and hatred in a way never seen from the Whitehouse before.

It's an American tragedy...and travesty.

Front Woodsman said...

Another ironic and tragic result of the race politics of Kenya Slim (Like that as much as "little "o" baby") is that we are now faced with legions of rednecks who we used to regard with contempt saying "See? What I tole you about letting them "N-word)s getting too uppity is just what happened." If Holder and his crowd are really looking for "payback" they may be finding out what the racism of the 40's and 50's was really all about when the reaction starts setting in. All the progress made by Martin Luther King and those who came after can be rolled back in a heartbeat if those who were on the "wrong side" back in the day can point to Holder and the Justice for Blacks Only Department as their new proof of a racial/ethnic divide in this country. Just what the Klan needed to get those recruiting numbers WAY up again. Scary part is, when the effluent hits the fan, whose side do you side with, both of them being equally repugnant?

Anonymous said...

Stilton Jarlsberg: I'm not being sarcastic when I say, "Wow, that was... really profound."

Anonymous said...

Emmentaler ~ While I am equally as incensed by the fact that guys like Shazam or Shabazz or whatever is name get away with such racist comments, the even larger issue for me is he got away with spouting off about killing babies PERIOD, regardless of the race or ethnicity of the child. And yest it is true if a white had stood on a street corner talking about killing all n----- babies, there would have been calls for his execution.