by Yvette Carnell, Your Black World

I really don’t know what to make of this comment by Attorney General Eric Holder:

“This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,” he said, “both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.”

It just strikes me as a play for sympathy. Maybe the Right wing is unfairly impugning Holder’s Justice Department, but to what extent does the right actually matter? The right wing is a core constituency of the Republican Party and doesn’t, at least not yet, have the power to seriously derail anything on Holder’s agenda.

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Anonymous

Use the card too often and it loses all meaning.

WizardG

@SheikYerbouti:disqus iekYerbouti. Many use terms like ‘race-card’ without thinking twice about where the term originated or who created the term. It’s the same people who created the idea of “race” and propagated the ideal that humans are of different races, when science has shown over and over that we are all one race! So who created the term? Well, the same people who use it to rationalize their abuses of “black” people! The same people who have attacked us throughout history and the same people who live and thrive off our suffering. We still serve these “white” people and they still abuse us and when we speak out about it they have their patented response using the “race-card”. We don’t have a race card! We don’t have any cards. Hell “whites” own the whole deck!

Do you remember how they (whites) created a deck of cards for attacking the leaders of Iraq? We helped them destroy that country and murder its people and it was their deck of “race cards” which were distributed to demonize and degrade those people. We are all insane, but some are much more insane than others! Race card indeed!

As for Holden. He is supposed to be a very powerful representative of this white-supremacist, and very “racist” social structure. His chatter is merely a way to bring sympathy to Mr. Obama in lieu of the next vote! The ‘Anglo-elite’ in charge ply us with all sorts of trickery, schemes, and cons. It’s amazing that so many are unable to see through this BS. What could possibly be numbing the minds of the populace? Could it be religion? Probably that, and a number of other serious psychological issues! Never mind puppets like Holden or Obama. Neither one of them are in a postition to do the ‘American’ public any good. That is reserved for the 1 percent and their semi-secret elite!

Anonymous

The rules are the same for everybody now. Everyone I know who immigrated here have the same rights as people born here. I would not deny there is racism and bigotry, it exists in ALL nations. At least in America people are trying to make a difference. The current president was elected with a substantial number of white votes. Were they all racists too?

David2001

“Everyone I know who immigrated here have the same rights as people born here.”

@SheikYerbouti. What country are
you talking about???? Black people were born here and didn’t have a
fraction of the rights of whites or other immigrates had who came here. That was the reason behind the civil rights movement.

“The current president was elected with a substantial number of white votes. Were they all racists too?”

No, just the white ones calling themselves teabaggers who have called President Obama everything from “monkey” to “tar baby” to comparing the first family to “planet of the apes” to threatening his life on a regular basis..
Larry

the rules might be the same now…but the race started 300 years ago for black people who were held back in the starting blocks while other races where allowed to run in the race.

to clarify, we did not come to this country as immigrants..we were brought to this country against our will as slaves.

Charsjcca

Yvette: It is worth understanding how Eric Holder was nominated by Ronald Reagan to the Superior Court of Washington, DC. Holder has no resume with regards to the interests of Blackness. Anyone who has been involved in the Black Power Movement understands that unless you are a trusted person you can not get appointed unless you are part of that team. That is what people need to know. He can not use the political capital of Blackness.
Commonsense

race card is a term whites use against black people to get us to shut up and ignore the truth when it pertains to racism. nothing wrong with using the “truth card” to expose their racism.