Arlen Williams @ New Zeal:
In the Daily Caller:
Daily Caller’s caption: “Future U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is seen in the 1973 yearbook of Columbia University in New York City. He graduated from the Ivy League school that year. (Image courtesy of “University Archives, Columbia University in the City of New York)”As a freshman at Columbia University in 1970, future Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a five-day occupation of an abandoned Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) headquarters with a group of black students later described by the university’s Black Students’ Organization as “armed,” The Daily Caller has learned.
Department of Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler has not responded to questions from The Daily Caller about whether Holder himself was armed — and if so, with what sort of weapon.
Holder was then among the leaders of the Student Afro-American Society (SAAS), which demanded that the former ROTC office be renamed the “Malcolm X Lounge.” The change, the group insisted, was to be made “in honor of a man who recognized the importance of territory as a basis for nationhood.”
Black radicals from the same group also occupied the office of Dean of Freshman Henry Coleman until their demands were met. Holder has publicly acknowledged being a part of that action.
The details of the student-led occupation, including the claim that the raiders were “armed,” come from a deleted Web page of the Black Students’ Organization (BSO) at Columbia, a successor group to the SAAS.
Eric Holder, “SMH.”
Eric Holder is the United States Attorney General.
Eric Holder replaced none other than Jamie The Wolf Gorelick as Deputy Attorney General, under Janet Reno and Bill Clinton, in 1997. Both of these positions required confirmation hearings and a vote, in the U.S. Senate.
Eric Holder, incidentally, has also been a judge, of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
How did it come about that this highly important and pertinent information was not publicly known and discussed, until the Daily Caller brought it out, last night?
When you elect an unvetted, non-leader, life-time under performer, under achiever, lazy narcissist to the White House, who’s even lost his license to practice law, AND he’s never built a company, or hired an employee, you cannot be surprised when he is surrounded by incompetence which cannot be rationalized and when it results in this level of human destruction: Univision Video: Fast and Furious Scandal
This says much about Mr. Holder. I just get so angry when I read about the black activism that occured back in the 60s and 70s. People need to learn their roles in society, not break laws in order to force society to address systemic injustices faced by ethnic minorities. What do we find out next, that Holder paid the bus fare for some woman to break a “negros-sit-in-the-back” law?
Per your article, Holder has been admitting and talking about this incident openly and widely, even describing it in a commencement speeches in 2009 and 2010. Hell, all this information has been available in the popular media since 2010. From your article:
So, it really is an interesting question: why do you suppose someone who reads conservative news sources would only learn of Holder’s well-documented activist past just a month before the 2012 elections?
Oh, by the way, this is the man who dropped the open and shut voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers and made a mockery of the American Justice System. Is there a conflict?
Does one Black Panther protect another?
Hi Skookum,
That does add context. I do agree that prior associations can absolutely constitute conflicts of interest. Leaving aside how Holder handled the voter intimidation case, I agree that the conflict of interest should have led him to recuse himself from involvement in that case. I’m not saying Holder is doing a good job in his current role as AG, but was criticizing
1) [What looked like] attempted character assassination based solely on a black American’s activisim during the Civil Rights movement of the 60s and 70s.
2) What appeared to be blatant politically-motivated timing of reporting old news.
@Kevin:
pardon me but i am upset that this information has not come out till now. it is reality and reflects who is sitting at head of justice. i refuse to buy the inference that poor ole holder is being picked on. the only shame i find here is that it was ignored by the pretend media and many in areas of review for those being vetted for positions in government. i am grateful to get the information late though it is. we need to know the truth and that is paramont over anything else.
Black panters..ask jessie jackson about the black stone rangers in chicago-he was a gang member in Hyde Park in the ’60’s..You do remember the ’60’s..well some of it. If you can remember it all-you did not live it.
Nearly all of the people that Obama surrounds himself would be able to obtain a top secret clearance in the military. That would include Obama and his unexplained and undocumented trip to Pakistan.
Just last week the guy (who quit the DOJ over the way the New Black Panthers were let off when they used voter intimidation against whites in Philly) wrote an article titled: Identity Politics Recruiting at Holder’s Justice Dept.
He points out how Holder’s DOJ looks for attorneys who have resumes which have obvious ideological histories.
Then where does Holder go to recruit?
On August 23rd Holder delivered remarks at the annual Lavender Law Conference in Washington D.C. The conference marked this year’s largest minority recruiting event in the nation.
In other words, our DOJ is actively recruiting people based on involvement in an identity politics group….in this case the group is Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders.