PrintApril 16, 2012
If I Were Black
If I were black, I would be cringing in shame at the latest photo of Attorney General Eric Holder praising the likes of Al Sharpton, a man on record for very odious words and vile actions.
I would hear my now-deceased grandma when she intoned that you can't sleep with fleas and not become flea-infested -- this from a woman who knew full well the effects of American racism when her husband of 50 years could get a job only as an elevator operator even though he went to Brooklyn College in the Jim Crow days of the 1940s and aspired for more. This from a petite matriarch who would quote Martin Luther King, Jr. that "[t]he Negro must work passionately and unrelentingly for full stature as a citizen, but he must not use inferior methods to gain it. He must never come to terms with falsehood, malice, hate, or destruction."
But that is precisely what Obama, Holder, and so many of the czars of the White House do. Sharpton's record is quite clear. Sharpton's...(Read Full Article)
