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In reply to the discussion: I find it interesting ... [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)about African Americans being targeted when Maxine Waters was targeted?
Why all the support for a man who failed the entire nation, again and again? (Especially poorer people, who often are people of color.)
Of course, a big difference between Waters and Holder: Waters has no ties to and no love for the Big Financial firms, and she often attempted to rip them a new one. While we all know that Holder only got where he got due to his toadying for Marc Rich, and his arranging Presidential Pardon from Clinton for Rich. (Basically a "hush money style" appointment - keep quiet about the Rich/Clinton deal and you will be highly rewarded Mr Holder.)
BTW I used to call Waters office once a month just to offer my support. (I live quite a distance from her district, though I do live in California.)
So if you cannot point to posts you made in the past decrying the treatment that Waters had to endure, why are you suddenly upset about Holder?
Eventually the contant outcry that criticizing outright CORRUPTION being perpetuated by African American officials is somehow "racist" is going to have the same "ho hum' reaction that the overuse of the "Anti Semite" epithet now has.
On edit: Holder has not ever been prosecuted. Why? Maybe because Big Bankers know he was their best friend, and they now run the judicial system. Waters eventually got the charges filed against her to go away, as they were trumped up chaarges. But even trumped up charges took a lot of her time and money. And time away from serving her district hurt those poor people in her East LA district.