Eric Holder on the Black Panther case

In talking about the Black Panther case, Holder refers to "my people" meaning African-Americans such as himself. Shouldn't he have said, "It demeans Americans"? Because we are all supposed to be Americans, and public servants aren't supposed to treat one segment of the population better than another. (And yes, whites were treated a helluva lot better than blacks prior to the Civil Rights Act, but we're talking about now, 40 years later, when we should have moved beyond that.)

And of course we can always turn it around. If a white public servant said, "That demeans "my people" " - you know he'd be in big trouble now.

Story #6: Holder: Black Panther Focus Demeans "My People"

RUSH: We have a story here from The Politico. The headline of the story: "Eric Holder: Black Panther Case Focus Demeans 'My People.'" Hmm. "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." Not in "history," 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. 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, to say some Black Panther incident is of greater concern to us, historiclally [sic], I think just flies in the face of history,' Holder said with evident exasperation." He said his career, not history. [That's Rush pointing out what Bartle Bull said.] This is Bartle Bull, who was a former Democrat activist. Bartle Bull is not a Republican. Bartle Bull, a Democrat, is saying, "I've never seen anything worse in my career than this," meaning this stonewall of justice; and here's Holder saying focusing on the Black Panther case, why, that demeans "my people."

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