Quote:Ok. Mr. "LALALALA I can't hear you!" Try this "hack", Larry Pinkney, who is saying about the same thing about Holders hypocrisy and being led by cowards.
Have you been taking lessons from Occhi? Or just in a particularly belligerent mood? I haven't insulted you yet, why start the fight?
That article doesn't even mention the case discussed in the link above.
It seems pretty standard to me, and I largely agree, although not with some of the more wingding assertions about fifth columns and whatnot. To talk about "cowards" is a handy catchphrase, but the reality is about power and history: who has had it, who still does have it, and how do we use it to further equality rather than destroy it. It is not about every single person being tarred with exactly the same brush, but about the lingering stench of racism that pervades the corridors of power.
However, I don't think Eric Holder would particularly disagree with that, though he would no doubt phrase it differently. He was speaking for Black History Month, but his comments were general ones to the issue of race. I doubt he would disagree that a similar dialogue should take place for all minorities, or for gender, or on sexuality. Nor would he disagree that MLK, Harriet Tubman, or any other smattering of civil rights activists would be unfairly tarred as "cowards". Indeed, he even singles those same people out for praise in his own speech, making me somewhat wonder if that author had actually heard or read the speech.
This is also what, in so many words, those same activists said in their time, challenging America to confront and overcome the problems of race. I take semantic issue with the article on one point, though: it is the nation collectively, and not every individual person, that needs a serious discussion. That article seems to use "collectively" to mean "every single person", whereas I see it as the organic whole.
This is all quite unlike the partisan hack cited above, who is simply throwing excrement at the Obama administration and hoping that it will stick.
-Jester
Afterthought: Of course it's Rush Limbaugh driving this... should have been obvious, didn't catch it at first.