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Eric Holder Thinks Barack Obama Is Kidding Himself
I'm glad Dayo Olopade wrote about Eric Holder's speech to his staff at the Department of Justice. Holder tackles race in America in a remarkably straight-forward and clear-eyed way. Dayo calls it "confrontational," and indeed, it's hard to read sentences like these -- "in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards" -- without thinking that perhaps Eric Holder has been holding something inside that he's wanted to yell at the top of his lungs for a long time.
These lines from Holder --
"On Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not, in some ways, differ significantly from the country that existed some 50 years ago."
"The history of the United States in the nineteenth century revolves around a resolution of the question of how America was going to deal with its black inhabitants."
"This nation has still not come to grips with its racial past nor has it been willing to contemplate, in a truly meaningful way, the diverse future it is fated to have..."
-- are so clearly at odds with Obama's re-telling of American history as a shared journey and his vision of America's future as one of shared sacrifice (and a resulting shared success) that it almost feels as though Holder is very slyly calling his boss a liar.
But we always knew that Obama's vision of race in this country, and his implied suggestion that different races could come together because of his election, was a bit too fanciful, didn't we? I think a lot of liberals knew that Eric Holder's America is the real America, but chose to believe instead in Barack Obama's America. And maybe that's not a politician using the self-deception of millions of Americans for his own gain. Maybe that's a leader inspiring people to see a better and more just alternative.
Take the Mirror Test
I suggest that everyone (including the Attorney General) take a close look in a mirror and study carefully what particular shade of skin they see on the face in the mirror; and while doing so, ask themselves if the color of that skin or any other color of skin - or eyes or hair for that matter - is really of any significance whatsoever, or whether, in fact, the real issue of concern is about what goes on inside the skull in the brain that is currently looking at the face in the mirror as well as in other human brains – the intelligence, knowledge, judgment, determination, character, experience, work ethic, integrity, language skills, learning ability, trustworthiness, personality and all the other qualities and capabilities related to a particular human brain.
Racial discrimination is illegal in our country and if instances of racial discrimination are taking place the Attorney General needs to see that such cases are prosecuted. Otherwise, perhaps we can agree that skin color is trivial and irrelevant and refocus our attention on the many significant problems we currently face, and put our brains to work on things that actually do matter.
Too Much Faith In A.G.
I don't think I'd put a whole lot of faith in an Attorney General who's Justice Department has already stood up in court and said that it would continue the Bush policy of invoking state secrets to hide the reprehensible history of torture, rendition and the most grievous human rights violations committed by the American government. This is not change. This is definitely more of the same. Candidate Obama ran on a platform that would reform the abuse of state secrets, but President Obama's Justice Department has disappointingly reneged on that important civil liberties issue. If this is a harbinger of things to come, it will be a long and arduous road to give us back an America we can be proud of again.
Source: Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU
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secrets to hide the
secrets to hide the reprehensible history of torture, rendition and the most grievous human rights violations committed by the American government. This is not change. This is definitely more of the same. Candidate Obama ran on a platform that would reform the abuse of state secrets, but President Obama's Justice Department has disappointingly reneged on that important civil liberties issue. If this is a harbinger of things to come, it will be a long and arduous road to give us back an America we can be proud of again.
Source: Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLUonline associates degree business | online accounting degree
Truth in Multiplication
Jonathan,
I disagree with your take on this. A rereading of Barack Obama's speech on race, one of the most sincere political discourses I have lived to see, would reveal a more nuanced understanding of our ethnic past than the way you are depicting it to contrast with Eric Holder's comments. I sincerely believe that both men are correct and that the idea that we have existing bigotry, a troubled history and a shared journey is one collective truth and not two mutually exclusive notions. We have shared a journey; its only that one ethnic group chose the destination, set the course and did the steering, without regard to the well-being of all the voyagers. I think the tone of your article almost sounds like baiting trouble.
ethnic past than the way you
ethnic past than the way you are depicting it to contrast with Eric Holder's comments. I sincerely believe that both men are correct and that the idea that we have existing bigotry, a troubled history and a shared journey is one collective truth and not two mutually exclusive notions. We have shared a journey; its only that one ethnic group chose the destination, set the course and did the steering, without regard to the well-being of all the voyagers. I think the tone of your article almost sounds like baiting trouble.
Eric Holder's America the
Eric Holder's America the real America? Sometimes I wonder that anyone genuinely secular votes Democratic at all, as essentially religious as the left has become (with Holder's tedious "mea culpa" idea of race as the left's version of original sin). Then I look at the right wing, and I understand, but it winds up with both sides stinking. This is why Barack Obama got so much support from the center, without which he would never have won: his ideology actually transcends liberalism.
Bush committed hate crimes with the stench of terrorism
Speaking of Barack Obama:
Barack Obama is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
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