Quote: (12-28-2013 03:39 PM)MrXY Wrote:
You're evading the point here, which is that this is the first time that a "knockout crime" has resulted in a FEDERAL charge. Eric Holder (appointed by Obama) doesn't give a shit about hate crimes against white people as evidenced by his dismissal of the Black Panther voter intimidation case when there was clear video evidence of racial intimidation against white people at a polling place
Unless it's a hate crime, there's no other Federal charge that could possibly be levied for punching someone in the face. Maybe you don't agree with that, but it is what it is, that's the law. Unless it's racially motivated(with actual evidence of such), then it's a local police matter.
The black panthers standing outside a pooling center is not a hate crime. If they had beat someone up then that's a different story. Not saying I agree with them being there, but in the clip you posted they said one of them had permission to be there as a poll guard.
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"My people"? I guess Holder's "people" aren't the American people-just the ones he feels a racial kinship with. A white politician would have been fired immediately if he dared make such a racially partisan statement and abused his office in the way Holder has.
This is where I think there's just a chasm between the way whites think and the way blacks think on matters like this. It reminds me of how whites say, "but if there were a White Entertainment Channel it would be racist!" Consider that Holder is 62 and lived through seeing all that horrific stuff in the south that we only see on old video clips. To us(younger people) it's history, to him it's a not so distant memory. I think as a black person, I understand there is no malice whatsoever in the way that he said "my people" and that for us, there's no contradiction in using that term and still seeing Americans at large as your fellow countrymen. If whites were a minority in a black majority country with a long history of brutal oppression and slavery against whites, I wouldn't find a white saying "my people" under that specific context to be the least bit offensive. But I also understand that people such as yourself will just never see it the way I do. I think Holder's choice of words were poor, but I don't think he's a black nationalist or a racist or meant anything ill-spirited by it...at all. That's my take on it.
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Funny thing is that Holder, genetically is probably more Caucasian than he is African, by the looks of him.