Yvette Carnell: Why Eric Holder Shouldn’t Play the Race Card

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by Yvette Carnell, Your Black World

I really don’t know what to make of this comment by Attorney General Eric Holder:

“This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,” he said, “both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.”

It just strikes me as a play for sympathy. Maybe the Right wing is unfairly impugning Holder’s Justice Department, but to what extent does the right actually matter? The right wing is a core constituency of the Republican Party and doesn’t, at least not yet, have the power to seriously derail anything on Holder’s agenda.

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