Following last week’s House Oversight Committee vote, on Thursday the House voted 255-67 to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents related to the committee’s investigation into the “Fast and Furious” program.
Refusing to participate in the vote, most Democrats — led by the Congressional Black Caucus, and including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — walked out in protest.
Last year, Eric Holder was widely criticized to referring to African Americans as “my people”.
” ‘Think about that,’ Holder said. ‘When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia — which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people,’ said Holder, who is black.
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Reading through the smoke screen of this committee, it seems that there are those who are less than pleased that this brother is in a position of authority and is not afraid to stand up for African Americans. It all boils down to the conservative right’s efforts to make President Obama and his administration look bad, while stopping the Attorney General from protecting voting rights. On Tuesday while addressing the NAACP, Eric Holder compared what’s going on today with voter suppression to what transpired under Jim Crow with poll taxes. That is causing more waves of disdain from the right. Blacks in government, both locally and nationally, are under attack. What’s considered normal and routine politics for white counterparts is unacceptable for us. Stay strong, Bro. Holder. Stay strong.