Hearsay…he goes again–Eric Holder

Attorney General Eric Holder

By Phil Erwin

Eric Holder is at it again.  “There are racists among us!”  In a recent interview for  ABC, Holder repeated his assertion that “some” of those who are critical of him and his boss are fueled by racism.   Of course, “some” is Lib-speak for “all.”

News flash, dude:  The Civil Rights guys won.  Martin Luther King shamed half the country and lit a fire under the other half and got them both acting more like a whole America  than two halves.  Took a while, roughly fifty years.  But now you go to a ballgame, you don’t see one color on one side and the other color on the opposite side.  Folks mix in together because they don’t much notice.

 Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying there’s no “racial animus” left anywhere in the country.  I’m not saying that there aren’t places where folks are all one color, and tend to look askance at folks of another. 

What I’m saying is, things have changed so much, it’s stupid to keep bringing this up.  Unless you have some ulterior motive for doing so.  Like a, whaddyoucallit… Hidden agenda.

 Maybe you want to suggest that all Americans of one particular political stripe are also all of one racist stripe.

 Now, you wouldn’t be trying to imply that, would you, Mr. Holder?

If that’s what you’re saying, then I can think of some very impressive, very worthwhile people that might take exception.  Dr. Ben Carson, for example.  Condoleeza Rice.  Author/columnist Star Parker.  Congressman Alan West, and Senator Tim Scott.  To point out just a few of a very impressive group.

Or would you be calling them “cowards,”  or referring to them, behind-the-hand, as Uncles or Aunts? 

Maybe you have been the recipient of slurs or other indignities in you life and harbor scars as a result.  That doesn’t give you the right to impugn, by implication, major sectors of our society just because you think they might be racist.  We all know it existed once, and lingers still.  But it’s lingering longer because people like you, and Jeremiah Wright, and Al Sharpton, and Shiela Jackson Lee just can’t seem to step past the past and get right with the present.

Racism is dying.  Let it go.

Truth is, most of white America was really hoping Barack Obama would be a terrific President, because that would have put an end to the racial debate, once and forever.  That was the Change we were Hoping for.  If all Americans could be proud, not just of electing a black President, but of revering his good works, that would have been the end of the incessant race-baiting.

But then he appointed you, Mr. Holder.  He started ignoring his campaign promises; and demonizing Conservative America, including those who had voted for him; and ignoring the Constitution, overstepping Presidential boundaries and changing laws; and spending our money like a drunken teenager with daddy’s credit card; and clipping our military’s mighty wings; and championing our enemies while berating both us and our allies; and…

Yeah.  Nice legacy.  Way to go.  You blew it, big-time.  Or… was all this on purpose?

And you, Mr. Holder?   Lessee.  You allowed Black Panthers to skate on intimidating voters while decrying efforts to legitimize elections through voter-ID laws.  You sued Arizona for trying to border-backstop the look-away Feds.  You buried your staff’s complicity in running guns to Mexico, and getting Brian Terry killed.  You gave the IRS scandal to an Obama fan, and then raised the caution flag of “Investigation Ongoing” for months without bothering to interview any of the primary complainants.  For months!

Either you just don’t know what you’re doing, or you actually do know.  Which is infinitely worse.

Phil Erwin is an author and IT administrator living in Newbury Park. 

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