Comments on: Holder: equality is not enough http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/ Thu, 24 May 2012 10:02:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Oblio http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102180 Oblio Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:04:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102180 That's why I say not many of these conversations will get started, and if they turn the way this one has, the Holders of the world will suddenly remember an engagement across town. If conservatives start the conversation on their own, it will be held up as evidence for the "Republicans are racists meme." Therefore, conservatives will tend to be reticent about bringing up racial matters. Therefore, not so many conversations about real racial issues affecting African-Americans. Holder must know this at some level. That’s why I say not many of these conversations will get started, and if they turn the way this one has, the Holders of the world will suddenly remember an engagement across town.

If conservatives start the conversation on their own, it will be held up as evidence for the “Republicans are racists meme.” Therefore, conservatives will tend to be reticent about bringing up racial matters.

Therefore, not so many conversations about real racial issues affecting African-Americans. Holder must know this at some level.

]]> By: pst314 http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102115 pst314 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:26:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102115 "This is not the conversation anyone wants to have. Which is why it is not going to happen any time soon" I suspect you are wrong, and we are going to see an ever-increasing number of ordinary Americans willing to stand up and say "up yours" to Holder and his bullying racist friends. “This is not the conversation anyone wants to have. Which is why it is not going to happen any time soon”

I suspect you are wrong, and we are going to see an ever-increasing number of ordinary Americans willing to stand up and say “up yours” to Holder and his bullying racist friends.

]]> By: E http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102114 E Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:46:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102114 Our sixteen year old son is a junior at a school which celebrates Martin Luther King day with a seminar program on the Tuesday after the holiday. Last year in a seminar on Black History, my son was singled out by the presenter to stand up and talk about how he felt about "being someone who has profited from slavery." Talk about being cold-cocked! This is an example of the kind of "conversation" Eric Holder is recommending, and it is distinctly one-sided. In this conversation, he thugs from the race-racket industry get to name all white peoples' sins, and white people get to apologize. Over and over and over again. Holder's speech is a chilling signal that the race-racket is now occupying the halls of power, and is becoming institutionalized. Politicians will name all white peoples' sins, and white people will apologize over and over and over again. And it will never, ever be enough. Our sixteen year old son is a junior at a school which celebrates Martin Luther King day with a seminar program on the Tuesday after the holiday. Last year in a seminar on Black History, my son was singled out by the presenter to stand up and talk about how he felt about “being someone who has profited from slavery.” Talk about being cold-cocked! This is an example of the kind of “conversation” Eric Holder is recommending, and it is distinctly one-sided. In this conversation, he thugs from the race-racket industry get to name all white peoples’ sins, and white people get to apologize. Over and over and over again.

Holder’s speech is a chilling signal that the race-racket is now occupying the halls of power, and is becoming institutionalized. Politicians will name all white peoples’ sins, and white people will apologize over and over and over again. And it will never, ever be enough.

]]> By: cygnet http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102110 cygnet Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:39:06 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102110 The usual suspects! We are getting close to a dangerous topic. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say: a monologue from the usual suspects speaking by and through their tools. Do I mean the culture of critique? The usual suspects! We are getting close to a dangerous topic. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say: a monologue from the usual suspects speaking by and through their tools.

Do I mean the culture of critique?

]]> By: huxley http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102107 huxley Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:31:43 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102107 Imagine the consternation that would ensue if the Attorney General was from the military and he was insisting that we needed a Military History month plus constant reminders in school and in the news about our past and present military heroes and their necessity for America, and that we all go out and make friends with people in the military. Imagine the consternation that would ensue if the Attorney General was from the military and he was insisting that we needed a Military History month plus constant reminders in school and in the news about our past and present military heroes and their necessity for America, and that we all go out and make friends with people in the military.

]]> By: Richard Aubrey http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102106 Richard Aubrey Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:08:02 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102106 Nope. He's expecting more of the same. A monologue from the usual suspects while the rest of us keep quiet. Nope.
He’s expecting more of the same. A monologue from the usual suspects while the rest of us keep quiet.

]]> By: Oblio http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102087 Oblio Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:48:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102087 This is not the conversation anyone wants to have. Which is why it is not going to happen any time soon, Attorney General Holder's admonitions notwithstanding. This is not the conversation anyone wants to have. Which is why it is not going to happen any time soon, Attorney General Holder’s admonitions notwithstanding.

]]> By: lex http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102071 lex Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:32:34 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102071 Well, we're having a fine little conversation on race now, aren't we? Just not, you know: The one that Holder was <em>looking</em> for, I don't think. Well, we’re having a fine little conversation on race now, aren’t we?

Just not, you know: The one that Holder was looking for, I don’t think.

]]> By: Nolanimrod http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102066 Nolanimrod Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:11:05 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102066 I'm tempted to paraphrase Sojourner Truth: <blockquote>ain't I a human?</blockquote> I’m tempted to paraphrase Sojourner Truth:
ain’t I a human?

]]> By: CFB http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102063 CFB Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:48:47 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/02/21/holder-equality-is-not-enough/#comment-102063 When did it become the attorney general's job to tell a free people what they can and cannot say, who they should and should not associate with, or how they should and should not spend their hard-earned leisure time? This is truly frightening. We are being governed by a gaggle of grotesques. When did it become the attorney general’s job to tell a free people what they can and cannot say, who they should and should not associate with, or how they should and should not spend their hard-earned leisure time?

This is truly frightening. We are being governed by a gaggle of grotesques.

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