In the wake of his speech this week criticizing an effort in Texas to deal with voter fraud, Attorney General Eric Holder is being accused of racial rhetoric.
During his speech at the NAACP’s (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) convention in Houston, Holder — the nation’s highest-ranking lawyer — equated the requirement of a government-issued ID to confirm one’s identity at a polling place to a “poll tax.”
But Derryck Green of the Project 21 black leadership network says Holder is wrongfully accusing Texas of violating the 24th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in his lawsuit.
“Texas isn’t saying that only minority voters have to show proof of ID; the law says everybody who’s going to vote has to show ID — so the law applies to everybody equally,” Green explains. “So the fact that he’s suing based on the Voting Rights Act to me shows that he’s trying to inject the racial element into a situation where it doesn’t need to be, and it’s not there.”
Read More at onenewsnow.com. By Russ Jones and Charlie Butts.
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well, if you’re WRONG on a matter, try to obfuscate it so to get folks to argue about a totally different matter. That’s how obama got “elected” in the first place, changing the election to be about “making history with the first black president” instead of choosing a good candidate, though we didn’t have a good candidate to choose from because the Elite put up Bite-Me as obama’s “opponent” and he’s a worse puppet than bush!)
Excellent post–Stevor you really nailed it. Holder/Obama and co. are experts @ injecting race into issues which really have nothing to do with race, such as voter fraud and immigration.
But they know that “race” is a very hot-button issue with Americans, so it’s their way of obfuscating the REAL issues, i.e. voter fraud and illegal immigration, and trying to get those seeking to fix these problems intimidated enough to back off.
Pretty obvious at this point that Holder is clearly the worst AG in history and has many reasons he should be impeached. Here again i’m sure it won’t happen–because Congressman won’t want to face the inevitable “racism” accusations!
That political correctness is a real toxin in our country and increasingly prevents us from addressing these difficult but very important issues in an appropriate way–which is exactly what the Obama/Holder types want!
After listening to that black dingbat Shelton try and distort the talk Romney gave to the NAALCP on FOX last night and hearing severl black callers on talk shows disavow him and the black ogranization, one has surmised that the race aspect of this 100 yer old racebased organization has suddenly taken a torpeoe in the bow and is starting to list. The epiphany of be a bunch of chumps for the Deemers all this time is wearing thin.
Maybe they remember it was the deemers dressed up in white sheets called the KKK that were the cowards who persecuted them and would not vote for their civil rights…lot more there but crooked blacks do exist…
Is’nt that NAACP the headquarters for that white-hating half breeds and quarter breeds? Those light-skinned apes are a danger to ALL Decent Christian Americans. They don’t know if they are black, white, green or name Hitler. They hate EVERYONE!
Holder ,Don’t you think you have run that into the ground,NOT WORKING ANYMORE, JUST STEP ASIDE before you are embarrassed if we DRAG YOU OUT . YOUR SOCIALIS,MARXIST buddies will be joining you soon, so you won’t be alone. When we pitch all of you in the same hole.
All of you are rotten to the core.
I thought I heard that the people who went in to see this CORRUPT MORON Holder speak, had to show IDs! If you have to show IDs to se him speak, then you or ANYONE should have to show a picture ID to VOTE!!! SOmeone should tell the state of Pennsylvania to start checking IDs before allowing individuals to vote!!
Holder says you don’t need an ID to vote, but REQUIRED 2 IDS TO GET IN TO SEE HIM SPEAK AT AN EVENT. Can you saying hypocrite boys and girls? I think that you can…
President and DOJ have contributed to the racial mess in our country!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/president-and-doj-have-contributed-to-the-racial-mess-in-our-country/
“Food For Thought”
Semper Fi!