Holder: I Wasn't Talking About Race, I Was Commenting On 'Civility' [View all]

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Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that when he was criticizing the way he was treated by congressional Republicans last week, he was not referring to race.

"I didn't say there was a racial component. I was very careful not to say that," he told the Huffington Post.

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Holder said during his speech that he has faced "unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive adversity" over the last few years.

"And if you don’t believe that, you look at the way — and forget about me, forget about me — you look at the way the attorney general of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee," he said. "That had nothing to do with me. Forget that. What attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? What president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?"

Eric Holder Says He Wasn't Playing Race Card When Decrying GOP Opposition
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/eric-holder-race-card_n_5147881.html?1397500580