Holder: Subtle racism a greater threat than ‘outbursts of bigotry’
By Eyder Peralta, NPR
During separate commencement addresses, Attorney General Eric Holder and first lady Michelle Obama delivered a similar message: On this 60th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which desegregated schools, we should acknowledge that progress has been made, but in many ways systematic racism still exists, albeit in a more subtle way that is just as sinister.
The Kansas City Star reports Obama spoke at the graduating ceremony for five Topeka high schools Friday night. According to the paper, Obama said schools, for example, are still segregated and “too often, those schools aren’t equal, especially ones attended by students of color, which too often lag behind with crumbling classrooms and less experienced teachers.”
Holder spoke at Morgan State University. Referring to the Donald Sterling fiasco, Holder said that the past few weeks have given us a perfect example of clear, “outbursts of bigotry.”
But the real trouble, the greatest threat 60 years after Brown v. Board is what he called “subtle racism.”
Eric Holder is a HUGE racist. Check his decisions on which of this country’s laws he enforces and which he ignores. Who he prosecutes and who he doesn’t. Racism is racism, whichever the direction.
Power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.
You’re a huge Islamophobe.
Are you implying that affirmative action is racist?
Islam is not a race.
And for someone who so stridently disapproves of the mixing of religion and politics, you might want to rethink your defense of islam. . .
I think dog was referring to the cases Holder prosecutes and the ones he avoids. There is a pattern there that doesn’t require spin to make dog’s point.
Personally I believe there will always be racist attitudes and acts in a melting pot of ethnicity here in America. I loathe it, as I believe a vast majority of Americans do. But I’m not necessarily comfortable with political parties legislating their particular brand of resolution either.
That’s where the wicket gets sticky, so to speak, and makes for all sorts of political bandwagoning.
I think all the people in red states are stupid and everyone in Texas is a fat A$#@*&^%!!!
“Islam is not a race.”
Really? Are you sure? /~
You are xenophobic, more accurately, Islamophobic. It comes from the same roots of fear and ignorance that racism does. It is just as bad.
So no references to the Eric Holder accusation?
Typical.
i love it when fundamentalists opine on islam; thin veil displayed like at no other time…
I am glad this website exists. Otherwise these xenophobic pieces of trash would remain imaginary. They do exist, in large numbers. It is disgusting.
So dawg do you acknowledge your own bigotry?
Or are you still suffering from cognitive dissonance. Your choice of ignorance is poisoning your soul.
@Sunriser-certainly not ALL, but definitely a disproportionate number that screeches louder than most! Thanks for the chuckle.
@Dog-how is that ‘new liberty’ website you are working on progressing? Please give us an update and a link.
“Yeah…all those _____________ people are __________, but look at what __________________ is doing, instead !”
“…racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.”
― Chris Crutcher, Whale Talk
Hmmmm, It’s actually coming along VERY nicely. But you wouldn’t like it. No trolls allowed, no anonymous posting, AND it isn’t free. Paid subscriptions only. Helps keep things civil.
It’s available at Liberty.me
But xenophobes are obviously allowed.
Paywalled media is already dead. Good luck with your neocon group think propaganda rag.
Fish, We love how you yap about stuff you have NO knowledge of. Are you a 15 year old living in your parents’ basement?? You’ve got NO idea what Liberty.me is about. Google Jeffrey Tucker sometime if you want to educate yourself a little.
Dog, couldn’t you be accused of the same you accuse Cosa Pescado of? Or you intimating that YOU alone are the expert on everything you comment on?
Just askin’.
Big, I’m talking about one particular subject right now. A subject that Fish is disparaging with ZERO understanding of. This doesn’t involve you in any way.
I usually only opine on stuff I either have personal experience in, or have studied. I don’t weigh in on every subject here. Far from it. You won’t find me yapping about rap music or assorted grades of marijuana, because I have NO knowledge of those things. But a new web site that I have helped to found, I know. And the Fish does not. I’m tired of the myopic lefties here seeing my name on a post and immediately attacking it simply because it IS my name on it, not because of the subject matter. That is the height of bigotry, isn’t it?
Fish, dog is correct Islam is not a race, Islam has millions of followers across a wide spectrum of races. But if Islam is a race as you contend, then so is Christian so following that logic that would make you also a racist, but you are not because it is a religon. this should be fun watching you get upset and having you defend you logic. There are billions of excelent people who follow the muslim faith and christian faith. Lets leave them to what ever makes them happy, as long as it doesnt infringe upon me being happy.
“I’m tired of the myopic lefties here seeing my name on a post and immediately attacking it simply because it IS my name on it, not because of the subject matter.”
Well then Dog, I would think you would get tired of some (not all) of the negative Obama banter tossed about by many, wouldn’t you? Can’t you admit that much of that rhetoric is, as you put it, the height of bigotry?
And, can’t many folks of your political persuasions on this site (yourself included!) be guilty of exactly the same you accuse myopic lefties of doing in your above quoted statement?
“. . .folks of your political persuasion on the site. . .”
I speak for no one but myself. And on the occasions when the lefties make sense, I stay out of it. Why attack somebody if they’re right?
You will never persuade a person like fish to concede that he is wrong. Sadly, the liberal mantra is cult like today. There is no room for compromise with these liberals, and they have a level of vitriol the likes of which is vicious.
“Fish, dog is correct Islam is not a race”
I thought the sarcasm was clear. Notice the odd punctuation?
” But if Islam is a race as you contend”
The lady put words in my mouth. Shame on you for not picking up on her MO.
“following that logic that would make you also a racist,”
Am I hallucinating? Where am I? Why does my head hurt?
Are you serious? First, define logic, then explain precisely how you arrived at your conclusion. One of us is stupid, or on drugs, or both.
” this should be fun watching you get upset and having you defend you logic.”
I already did. It was really really boring.
“Lets leave them to what ever makes them happy, as long as it doesnt infringe upon me being happy.”
Indeed. There are also lots of xenophobic pieces of trash out there who need to be taken down a few pegs.
I don’t have a horse in the angry sky man race
“We love how you yap about stuff you have NO knowledge of.”
If you can convince someone the earth is only a few thousand years old, you can convince them of anything. You got taken by that site. Your loss not mine. The site promotes anti IP in software, which is an interesting discussion…. and has a paywall.
In summary, you fall for a lot of BS (such as Islamophobic hate propaganda). I read that guys reddit AMA. His followers flooded it with a bunch of meatball questions (a lot of them probably knew the answers and just wanted to show off or be liked), it had a cultish vibe. He is selling something more than promoting an idea. Smart in that he knows old media, printed books, are not where his money will be found. Sell the digital literature, sell access to a closed community that promotes group-think (intellectual death), and make the customers feel good about themselves from the community, rinse, repeat. The guy ghost wrote for a politician. He knows exactly what he is doing.
Are you going to own up to your ‘proud’ xenophobia. Go ahead, post that link that got you banned from the other site. Coward.
“You will never persuade a person like fish to concede that he is wrong.”
Try science, basic logic, or any logic that is not riddled with logical fallacies. You lack substance and skill.
fish, sorry to hear your on drugs, or maybe jsut stupid.
Yeah fish..sorry to hear YOUR on drugs, or maybe JSUT stupid. Thank God you’re not on drugs, or just stupid. HYUCK HYUCK! Good one, real-low-man. I do seem to recall Dog saying she proudly claims her viewpoints.
@Dog-‘Hmmmm, It’s actually coming along VERY nicely. But you wouldn’t like it. No trolls allowed, no anonymous posting, AND it isn’t free. Paid subscriptions only. Helps keep things civil. It’s available at Liberty.me’. I love the veiled insult! So ya’ll can pay to sit at your keyboards and pat yerselves on the back for being such lofty American intellectuals, along with the likes of Cliven Bundy, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Bachmann. Awesome. Where I come from we call that intellectual stagnation(I coulda said ‘circle—-‘ but I’m trying to be less pugnacious). When I agree with someone, even you or Bitter…I say so. We have to get beyond ‘knee—-‘ partisan reactions and keep the focus on individual issues. It is fitting that when you agree with what you consider to be a ‘lefty’ you don’t publicly say so, you just stay out of it. That is SO brave.