YES, RACE, IS STILL A MAJOR POLITICAL ISSUE

…US Attorney General, Eric Holder

 

Are the Republicans in the US Congress Racists?  You be the judge.

For those of us that grew up watching the race riots that occurred in Little Rock, and Selma, and after Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, most of us figured that the bad attitudes between the races were starting to change for the better.  Oh, we knew the race issues weren’t going away, but at least, those of us out here on the West Coast, we thought things would be improving.

Well, they have, and they have not.  Yes, in some ways it’s better, such as no more rest rooms or lunch counters in the South being divided between the whites and the blacks, no more “blacks to the back of the bus” issues, but in some ways things are going back to dividing the races.  Plus today, it’s now dividing the poor from the wealthy, or the conservatives from the progressives.

First, we now have the new voter ID laws and fewer voting hours in conservative states that, “were supposed keep voter fraud away”.  But with most states having a voter fraud issue of 0.00001% of their state’s voters, that bogus issue is now referred to as the new “Mr. James Crow the 3^rd “ laws, or just an updated version of the Southern “Poll Taxes”.  These laws will mostly keep the minorities, the young, elderly, disabled and veterans away from the polls.  And as a group, these groups tend to vote Democratic.  Isn’t it interesting that these new laws are only being introduced in states controlled by Republican Governors and GOP run state congresses….?

But there are also some other crazy things going on regarding race in the South, especially in the Deep South, and it’s becoming harder and harder to understand.

We now have the crazy, liberal, Alabama Democratic state Representative, Mr. Alvin Holmes, who just happens to be black, and he  said some off-the-wall racial comments such as it’s fine by him if a man wanted to marry a mule...?  He also said that, “white people are only pro-life until their daughter gets pregnant by a black man”.  In another situation, Mr. Holmes offered $100,000 to anyone who could show him that, “a bunch of whites” had adopted black babies in Alabama.  He had previously also said on a local radio program that the, “White people of Alabama would never let him, a black man, adopt a white baby”.

His $100,00 offer produced hundreds of mixed-race family photos posted to a Facebook page called, “Faces of Families”.  These were families from Alabama and several other southern states. A statehouse rally of mixed-race, adoptive families also ensued, but Holmes has not been moved to retract any of his original statements.

In addition to crazies like Mr. Holmes, for race issues to be showing there ugly heads even more, just look at how our black president and Attorney General are being disrespected.

This racial disrespect all started when the South Carolina Representative, Joe Wilson, yelled “You lie!” at President Obama during his speech at a Joint Session of Congress in 2009.  Wilson later apologized for the outburst.  However, since that time, the president has been falsely called a liar many times, and mostly by southern politicians or conservative talk show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.

This disrespect for black politicians has gotten ridiculous such as in the video of the white Representative Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight, cutting off the microphone of the Representative Elijah Cummings, the committee’s ranking senior Democrat.  This occurred during another bogus hearing on the IRS scandal.  Issa also later apologized to the Democrat, but it was a private phone call apology, not a public apology.

Let’s also not forget how roughly 100 Democrats, including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, poured out of the House of Representatives in a symbolic protest against holding Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress.  But the rest of the Republican body proceeded without them.  No other AJ has ever been held in Contempt of Congress.  But this was all because of another bogus and failed attempt by Darrell Issa to try and pin a bad issue on the president’s administration. 

The president’s administration that truly deserved to be disrespected was the previous Republican administration.  But fortunately, the Democrats respected the office of the president and did not stoop to that level.

Today, Washington DC is home to a president and an attorney general who both happen to be African Americans.

Speaking recently at the 2014 convention of the National Action Network, a nonprofit civil rights organization, the Attorney General Eric Holder said that he and President Obama have faced “unwarranted, ugly and divisive adversity.”  “What attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?” Holder said.  Then he added, “What president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?”

The answer is “none”.

Holder later denied making any references to race, which he didn’t do.  He was way too smart to say anything that overt.  But we all know race is what he was talking about.

I guess the good news is that at least, we are talking about it.

They say, the best way to fix a problem is to first admit that you have a problem.

Well, the progressives are admitting that race is still a big issue.  But if you were watching Fox News for understanding that racial issues are a big problem, you would be very disappointed.  According to Fox, they just hate the man in the White House.  They falsely think he is not very smart and is a very bad and incompetent president.

However, I would bet everything I have, that when the final story is written, this president will go down as one of the best in history.  He stopped the nation from heading into financial disaster, he stopped two foreign wars and he gave the American public its first taste of affordable health care.

Just compare this with what the previous Republican president brought to the party.

Copyright G.Ater 2014