While the House Oversight Committee has now
recommended that Congress hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt
for his conduct during the Fast and Furious scandal, one could make the
case that Holder has long held the American public in contempt.
After all, how many cabinet secretaries
begin their tenure by calling his fellow Americans “a nation of cowards”
where it concerned the question of racism? Never mind that America has
become a nation where racism is not only unacceptable but a nation
where, outside of being called a murderer or a rapist, nothing is worse
than being called a racist.
If anyone has behaved cowardly where it
concerns racism, it is Holder. What can one say about a man who sees fit
to drop a successfully prosecuted case of voter intimidation? If two
members of the Ku Klux Klan had held a baton in front of polling station
in Philadelphia, Mississippi, to intimidate black voters, Holder would
have spared no effort to prosecute them. But when it comes to two
members of the New Black Panthers holding a baton in front of polling
station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to intimidate white voters,
Holder could not care less. During testimony before a House
Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in March 2011, 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… I think does a great disservice to people who put their
lives on the line for my people.”
No, the great disservice here is an
Attorney General who does not comprehend the basic legal concept of
“equal justice under law.” Eric Holder is the Attorney General of the
United States, not the Attorney General of his people.
Yet what can we expect of a public official who does not have the courtesy to read legislation he contended would lead
to increased racial profiling? Oh, pardon me. Holder did say he
“glanced” at the Arizona immigration law. It would have been nice if
Holder taken the copy of S.B. 1070 that Texas Congressman Ted Poe so
generously offered him. Then again it probably wouldn’t have made a
difference. Holder’s Department of Injustice was going to sue Arizona
whether he read the bill or not.
Read More at spectator.org. By Aaron Goldstein.
Photo Credit: The Aspen Institute Creative Commons
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