On todays Tea Party home page is this article. Holder seems to think he and Obama have racial targets on their backs. I'll admit there may be some racism but, could it possibly be you are doing a crappy job? If so, wouldn't you be the racist for thinking this is a racial issue?
July 13, 2014 10:23 am
‘There’s a certain level of vehemence’
(The Hill) – Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday he and President Obama have been targets of “a racial animus” by some of the administration’s political opponents.
“There’s a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that’s directed at me [and] directed at the president,” Holder told ABC. “You know, people talking about taking their country back. … There’s a certain racial component to this for some people. I don’t think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there’s a racial animus.” [ We simply want to "take our country back" from some idiots. Skin color not the issue.]
Holder said the nation is in “a fundamentally better place than we were 50 years ago.” [True, what is more important is, are we in a better place than 5 years ago?]
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“We’ve made lots of progress,” he said. “I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American president of the United States. And that has to show that we have made a great deal of progress. [Good for you! But, progress for your race should be secondary to the progress of the nation.]
“But there’s still more we have to travel along this road so we get to the place that is consistent with our founding ideals,” he said. [If your "founding ideals" are destroying America, you're almost there.]
He also stood by his controversial comments made during Obama’s first year in office, in which he said the U.S. was a “nation of cowards” when it comes to race. [If I understand that comment, he is correct. However, if your administration's actions and deeds were admirable, I believe most racists would not care i.e. it doesn't matter what color you are if you are doing your job well.]
“I wouldn’t walk away from that speech,” Holder said. “I think we are still a nation that is too afraid to confront racial issues,” rarely engaging “one another across the color line [to] talk about racial issues.” [Look Eric, you admitted America is better than 50 years ago. As each hard core racist generation dies out, full equality is getting closer. There are more mixed race families than ever before. Racism will never be fully eradicated but, at some point skin color won't matter . God made us in his image....all of us.]
The attorney general also pointed to Republican efforts to enact stricter voter ID laws in southern States as evidence that more needed to be done to protect minority rights. Republicans have maintained the efforts are designed to prevent voter fraud, while Democrats say instances of fraud are exceedingly rare, and far outpaced by the minority population that does not have identification that would be unable to vote. [On this I ask, what are you afraid of Eric? If voter fraud isn't prevalent, what harm is it in having all voters show ID. And, why wouldn't everyone of voting age not have an ID already. If no other government entity required ID where do you think we would be? I personally would file false tax returns. Your argument that it is a hardship to ID everyone is B S. Most of these potential voters are on welfare or some other form of government assistance....they have to have ID for that don't they? Finally, most everyone receiving government assistance are accustomed to free assistance and, wouldn't want that to change. They will vote Democrat anyway. Voter ID is not a racist issue.]
Holder called the laws “political efforts” designed to make it “more difficult” for “groups that are not supportive of those in power” to “have access to the ballot.” [Again, voter ID would probably only help the Democrats. It is just the right thing to do.]
“Who is disproportionately impacted by them? Young people, African Americans, Hispanics, older people, people who, for whatever reason, aren’t necessarily supportive of the Republican Party,” Holder said, adding that “this notion that there is widespread in-person voter fraud is simply belied by the facts.” [Then what is the problem?]
Holder said the Justice Department was planning legal challenges of new voting laws in Ohio and Wisconsin. It has previously filed suit in Texas and North Carolina. [...and keep trying until they change it. Hey, how about enforcing laws already on the books?]
“I’m attorney general of the United States. … I will not allow people to take away that which people gave their lives to give, and that is the ability for the American people to vote,” Holder said. [That sounds like he is quoting the Constitution or something. No one is trying to deny anyone the right to vote. The people who gave their lives so citizens can vote, also fought for free speech and, to protect us from threats from home and abroad. I submit that you, Eric Holder are as racist as the people you are accusing. Your comments will be read and heard by people who (for some strange reason) look up to and admire you. They will now fuel the fire you started. You have set the cause back by opening your mouth.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/212082-holder-sees-racial-animus-in-opposition
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