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03-01-2011, 03:37 PM
"Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American.
The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.
.."to say some Black Panther incident is of great[er] concern to us, historically, I think just flies in the face of history," Holder said with evident exasperation.
Rep. Chaka Fattah, a Democrat from Philadelphia, said the Black Panthers "should not have been there."
"There’s clearly overwhelming evidence that your Department of Justice refuses to protect the rights of anybody other than African-Americans to vote," [Culberson] said. "There's a double standard here."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0311/Eric_Holder_Black_Panther_case_focus_demeans_my_pe ople.html
The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.
.."to say some Black Panther incident is of great[er] concern to us, historically, I think just flies in the face of history," Holder said with evident exasperation.
Rep. Chaka Fattah, a Democrat from Philadelphia, said the Black Panthers "should not have been there."
"There’s clearly overwhelming evidence that your Department of Justice refuses to protect the rights of anybody other than African-Americans to vote," [Culberson] said. "There's a double standard here."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0311/Eric_Holder_Black_Panther_case_focus_demeans_my_pe ople.html