Dupayosh of the Week of February 28, 2011 Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. w/ Assist: Chaka Fattah, né Arthur Davenport

~ Hey, ‘ric. ‘My people’ talks ‘race’ to me big time. And thanks about the ‘less worse’ principle of law. Didn’t know that one. ~

"Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American. . .

" ‘Think about that,’ Holder said. ‘When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia, which was inappropriate....to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people,’ said Holder, who is black.

" ‘This Department of Justice does not enforce the law on the basis of race,’ Holder insisted.

"Rep. Chaka Fattah, a Democrat from Philadelphia, said the Black Panthers "should not have been there." But he said the GOP was making too much out of a fleeting incident involving a couple of people.

" ‘The most unethical thing a person can do is make allegations based on absolutely nothing,’ Fattah said. ‘The only issue of race is singling out this particular decision...That this rises to national significance is boguson [sic] its face.’ "

"Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people' " by Josh Gerstein, Politico, March 1, 2011