The "Let My People Go!" Cards

The "Let My People Go!" Cards

Go down, Moses,
Way down in Egypt land,
Tell old Pharaoh,
Let my people go.

That old Negro spiritual has taken on new meaning of late. The “people” have evolved into the New Black Panther Party and public labor unions and the new pharaoh has emerged as the Republican Party.

America’s Attorney General or, more precisely, African-Americans’ Attorney General Eric Holder, became mildly incensed–if incensement can ever be mild–over his department’s handling of the New Black Panther Party’s 2008 Philadelphia voter intimidation case. In a nutshell, Holder’s Department of Justice didn’t handle it at all. Rather they abandoned the cut and dried case.

See “That New Black Panther Party Holds AG Holder in its Spell,” http://tiny.cc/rjnko, and earlier articles that exposed the black racist doings at the DoJ.

Mr. Holder all but lost it during a House Appropriations subcommittee this week when Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) accused Holder’s department of doing what sworn congressional testimony by reputable DoJ attorneys has already substantiated as fact, namely that race trumped justice when it came to prosecuting the New Black Panther Party.

Holder, already on record as denouncing white people as cowards–even before his confirmation as the nation’s principal law enforcement authority–reacted as if it were a personal offense when Culberson read a statement by former Democratic activist Bartle Bull calling the NBPP “incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.”

Instead of responding to the charge, Holder said, ”Think about that. When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia–which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.”

The AG then babbled on about his sister, and courage, and history and defensively rejected Culberson’s charge of “overwhelming evidence” of “a double [racial] standard” at the DoJ by saying, “I would disagree very vehemently with the notion that there’s overwhelming evidence that that is in fact true. This Department of Justice does not enforce the law in a race-conscious way:” http://tiny.cc/wquk1

Methinks Holder doth protest too much.

First of all, no comparisons were being drawn between the NBPP travesty and the Civil Rights Movement in the South and therefore no “disservice” was implied or intended. Secondly, that “overwhelming” evidence has already been presented to Congress, even if it has been ignored. Third, what’s this “my people” talk?

The Attorney General of the United States is supposed to represent ALL the people, not some people, not just Eric Holder’s “people.” Holder seems to forget or disregard that mandate all too frequently.

On the other hand, Rep. Charles Rangel (D, NY) forgets little or nothing, except when it comes to ethics and ill-gotten gains. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3789)