http://www.mediaite.com/online/salon-writer-asks-if-eric-holder-is-president-obamas-inner-ngger/
btw Holder has not been proven the infidel they tried to label him and he's closing in on their latest complicity with the right wing SCOTUS to deny voter rights so they are back on the attack to smear him again 37 times short of their record to undo the admin. ACA are they working on a tie?
President Obama‘s powerful speech on the aftermath of Trayvon Martin‘s unpunished killing has spawned a panoply of reactions, but one Salon writer’s review of the President’s remarks is drawing molten-hot criticism on Twitter. Demos Senior Fellow and sometime Up panelist Richard Benjamin blasted the speech as a tepid shadow of Attorney GeneralEric Holder‘s advocacy, and declared that “Some of us have an Inner Child. Others have an Inner @!$%#. Is Holder the president’s conscience? Or his Inner @!$%#?”
From Salon‘s Richard Benjamin:
Finally the president has spoken about George Zimmerman’s acquittal. Even as the country waited for his singular response – the nation’s leader and a law professor who once looked like Trayvon Martin – the president danced around the issues. And what a dramatic anti-climax, listening to the president refuse to say anything insightful or profound about the acquittal. In signature professorial style, the president gave us the “context” to the episode and to black people’s “pain.” But he didn’t offer a meaningful opinion on the episode’s hot molten core: racial profiling, vigilantism, and “Stand Your Ground” laws.Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder delivered trenchant thoughts on the acquittal, demanding action. Before an audience of supporters, Holder recently called for a full investigation of Martin’s death after Zimmerman’s acquittal. Holder vowed that the Justice Department will act “in a manner that is consistent with the facts and the law. We will not be afraid.”“We must stand our ground,” he told supporters.Some of us have an Inner Child. Others have an Inner @!$%#. Is Holder the president’s conscience? Or his Inner @!$%#?Is Holder the president’s aggressive internal mind and voice — willing to speak truth to power, but unbothered with appearing like an angry black man?
The President has faced harsh provocations from other black commentators, but this is a whole different level. The post drew swift criticism from the This Week In Blackness tag team of Elon James White and Angry Black Lady Imani Gandy, including sharp rebukes of Salon‘s editors:
all and all it's true everyone has a price for which they will say or do anything, and it's not always money.
another Black wannabe has his 1 cent and 15 mins, and where does it take us two steps back, he just confirms in the minds of those who oppose everything negative they have thought, sighting another BINO's confirmation of his own doing.
I always liked Benjamin as a panelist on Up, and I hope he doesn’t get fired for this. My feeling is that the best response to problematic speech is more speech, not less. In this case, I’d be especially interested to know what Benjamin was trying to accomplish with his word choice, beyond blunt provocation, and if he’s prepared to have his words parroted by the likes of Rush Limbaugh on Monday morning. That’s a sound that hurts, no matter how accustomed you get to it.Benjamin’s provocation is something he’ll have to wrestle with, but on the substance, he’s got half a point. Eric Holder has been much more vocal and active on issues of race during this administration, but the speech the President gave today was as unflinchingly far from a Beer Summit as anyone could reasonably expect.
i hope he does get fired and more appropriate sentenced to working for Fox so he can undergo the occasional slap down they give to their tokens that get to uppity, like Juan Williams. no matter what he says or does he will always be the "N" over there to those he mimics the negative rhetoric. no desire to bring us together Fox and the right wing was playing that tune awhile back "Pres. Obama is trying to separate us", take a drink of water and try to calm the laughter down.
the guy who wrote this last quote did nothing but high five the vitriol of Benjamin and the band plays on. they don't wonder how we can get to this racial discourse because like science they say it's nonexistent.
