My fellow Americans, who are “your people”? I ask because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase “my people” in congressional testimony this week. It was an unmistakably color-coded and exclusionary reference intended to deflect criticism of the Obama Justice Department’s selective enforcement policies. It backfired.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Hey, Eric Holder: Meet My People
My fellow Americans, who are “your people”? I ask because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase “my people” in congressional testimony this week. It was an unmistakably color-coded and exclusionary reference intended to deflect criticism of the Obama Justice Department’s selective enforcement policies. It backfired.
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Funny stuff aint it? The head racist and his attack dog racist are crying about racism....My people? Please, very few Blacks think Obama has done enough to help their cause. I mean so many of them actually have to work when they should just be given money for being black...
ReplyDeleteI mean so many of them actually have to work when they should just be given money for being black...
ReplyDeleteIt's actually sad, but true, unfortunately.