Hypocrite Holder Still Hopelessly Clueless

Hypocrite Holder Still Hopelessly Clueless
Commentary by Sanford D. Horn
July 12, 2012

Is it the collective sanity of the thinking American that is at question? Or does Eric Holder, the feckless attorney general of the United States simply does not have a grip on reality?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID prior to boarding an airplane?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID when purchasing alcohol? Tobacco? Firearms?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID when writing a check? Making a bank deposit? Using a credit card?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID when applying for a driver’s license? A library card?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID when visiting a medical office for the first time as part of the paperwork regimen?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID when entering a government building?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID when applying for or signing a mortgage application?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID when filling out the paperwork upon starting new employment?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID when collecting lottery or casino winnings?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID when registering for college as a freshman or transfer?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID when picking up a package at the post office or UPS?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID when claiming a prize at an events’ drawing?

Is it racist when asked to produce a photo ID when checking into a hotel, convention hall or other event with a roster of attendees?

Is there anyone reading this who has not suffered such an indignity? That someone should deign to quantify who is standing before him or her in any of the above circumstances and others not listed?

Yet, according to Holder, the attorney general refusing to prosecute members of the New Black Panther party for voter intimidation in Philadelphia in 2008, it is racist to expect voters to identify themselves at polling places making it akin to a poll tax, and an indignity to ones self-esteem.

It is Holder who is the racist for assuming blacks and Hispanics are unable to procure a photo ID. Really? Are all blacks and Hispanics so destitute and without means they are unable to find the means with which to identify themselves prior to casting a vote, one the most basic tenets of being an American? Sounds terribly stereotypical, pandering and a lowering of the bar.

That Holder has lowered the bar is in itself racist. As a supporter of affirmative action, Holder should know how racist that is – an admission that those groups being given an edge simply because of their race because they can’t accomplish – fill in the blank – earning admission into college, garnering employment, etc. on their own merits.

When states like Florida, Georgia and Texas, among others are advertising ways in which legally qualified voters are able to procure a standard government ID gratis, how can that be compared to a poll tax? There have even been mobile units willing to go to the voters themselves if they do not have the means with which to get to the ID producer. Securing a customary form of identification has never been easier, and yet, Holder continues to trumpet from the rooftops that to require a voter ID is a form of voter suppression by the GOP in an effort to steal elections.

Quite the opposite is true. Republicans supporting voter ID laws across the country are attempting to ensure that only legally qualified voting citizens are afforded the privilege of casting their ballot on Election Day. It is Holder and those who support his illogical notion that are willfully creating a circumstance by which illegals, the dead and those who simply have no right to vote in a particular polling location are enabled to do just that, That is voter fraud, pure and simple. That is Holder and his minions attempting to steal elections.

And by the way, those members of the press who covered Holder’s recent speaking engagements were denied admission without producing a federally issued photo ID. Further demonstrating his hypocrisy, attendees at his NAACP speech in Houston were also required to provide a photo ID, this in a state where Holder is fighting against Texas law requiring photo ID at polling places.

Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.