Attorney General Eric Holder implied that the reason Republicans attack him and President Obama is because they are black.
Holder made those remarks during a Wednesday night speech to supporters of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
Holder deviated from his prepared remarks, as published on the Justice Dept.’s website, to complain about his treatment the day before during a House Judiciary Committee meeting. [1] His remarks were supposed to have been: “The last five years have been defined by significant strides and lasting reforms – even in the face of unprecedented adversity. Last summer, after a narrowly split but divided Supreme Court struck down a key part of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965, my colleagues and I took action.”
Instead, he stated:
“The last five years have been defined by significant strides and by lasting reforms even in the face, even in the face of unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive adversity. If you don’t believe that, you look at the way – 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. It ‘has 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?”
[1] During the hearing Rep. Blake Fahrenthold (R-TX) refused to ask Holder any questions during the hearing noting that were he an “ordinary American, Holder would be “in jail” and fellow Texan Rep. Louis Gohmer, in a thinly disguised threat, remarked that contempt was not a big deal to the Attorney General. You can watch Holder arguing with Gohmer here.
You can watch Holder speaking below:
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