A nation of cowards

[kandrathe]

Could you perhaps cite another example of Mr. Holder's supposed hypocrisy? I'm really unconvinced by this first one, so maybe context would help.

Ok, Eric Holder is a product of of the last all male graduating class at Stuyvesant which is accused by ACORN in Secret Apartheid. "The most blatant illustration of the long term results of narrowing our children's options can be found in the composition of the student body at New York City's premier academic high schools: Stuyvesant and Bronx Science." The same Eric Holder who while studying law at Columbia, self segregated himself by joining "Concerned Black Men", clerking for the NAACP and played for the basketball team. Certainly, if he was courageous, would he not have sought out more integrative activities? You know break down some of those cultural race barriers, like work for a New York law firm, or join the fencing team. Here is a man who was recognized in the 4th grade for his talent, and has been given every opportunity (more so than most) to build a stellar career, and he did. It is obvious to me that his speech given during the first Black History Month during the administration of the first Black president is political grandstanding at best, and race hustling at its worst. I'm sure he's worked hard, and has struggled with many adversities during his career so far, but it is nothing compared to the hardships suffered by 99.9% of this nations blacks. Eric Holder is one of those people, like President Obama, that has discovered that in the US today, if you try to use your brain and make something of yourself, you actually can do it. So, my question to Mr. Holder, and to Pres. Obama is how do we turn from the negative to the positive in convincing our young people that opportunity exists for all races if they apply themselves. How do we deter those things that distract young people from achieving their highest potential?

The answer is not the ACORN strategy of changing the tests so that more minorities can get into Stuyvesant, but rather ask why some children are not learning the materials on the SHSAT test. Was equality in education not the reason for the vast sums of money that have been poured into government run schools for the past four decades? Where is the accountability for our efforts in this regard? The price per student has doubled, the class sizes have decreased, the salaries of teachers increased, and the number of bureaucrats has doubled and yet the literacy rates have dropped, and the number of students moving into the sciences has decreased. What went wrong?

Hypocritical at least of the justice system is the case of Holder's involvement with President Clinton in pardoning the fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. Because, you know that wealthy criminals make the best campaign contributors. The huffy post has another article relating to Eric Holder's role in getting the Marc Rich pardon.

I think Eric Holder is the wrong man for AG, because like too many other people in government, he uses racism as a political weapon, and in terms of justice he's been a part of the DOJ problem. He has already spoken out about censoring free speech on the internet, he has already declared war on the 2nd amendment, and according to this article he is also heedless in his violation of the 6th amendment.