Jeckyll & Hyde, Good Cop & Bad Cop: Barack and Eric Are Doppelgängers!

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Barack Obama's "evil twin," his racial Alter Ego: Eric Holder.

Barack avoids discussing race like the plague - ever hear the words "el Barrio," "reparations," "Asian math whiz" escape his lips? But his Attorney General just unleashed a racial tongue lashing on Americans.

Holder called America a "nation of cowards." Holder declared that most Americans avoid discussing awkward racial issues. (How does the AG's boss fit into this charge?)

Poor white folks! They just voted for Obama to finally led go decades of racial discomfort. "Obama is a "twofer," Peter Beinart wisecracked last year. "Elect him, and you not only dethrone George W. Bush, you dethrone Al Sharpton, too!"

Like myself -- or Oprah or Air Michael or Condi or Colin -- Barack Obama is what whites call a "no-demand black." Our company is not predicated on whites' having to let go an ugly stereotype, untangle a stubborn view, or something like that.

Not so, for the AG! His speech yesterday was a lightning-rod, taking Americans to task on race.

Predictably, the right-wing echo chamber - from Fox to Michelle Malkin - started frothing at the mouth(s).

Let's be real: Eric Holder freaks conservatives out as America's Top Cop. Why? A BROTHA is now in charge of the prison industrial complex that gulps and spits millions of black and brown men through a system that churns like a racial gulag.

I like this new development: Barack and Eric working hand in hand -- Jeckyll and Hyde, Good Cop, "Bad" Cop. Barack calls us a "nation of heroes." Eric calls us a "nation of cowards."

Comments

[ohioan73]

05:41 PM on 02/19/2009

I think Prof. Michael Eric Dyson just pwned Pat Buchanan on MSNBC.

I'm a black woman who doesn't look black at all. I am frequently in social situations with white people who are not aware of my race. Within a few minutes, somebody says the "n" word while describing a black person and I end up storming out never to return. I get to be a fly on the wall. Granted, these are usually non-colleg­e grad working class, 2nd generation ethnic immigrant white people (Catholics­) but this is the meme of the people I see everyday because they are my white bfs friends. It negatively affects our relationsh­ip. This is the first interracia­l relationsh­ip for both of us. Its been very hard for us to love each other in this atmosphere of hatred. These are people that have no black friends and who's parents purposely separated them from us so they really don't know us at all.

[OverIt]

04:49 PM on 02/19/2009

I hope for all our sake that you are wrong. Mr. Holder needs to play his position. Al Sharpton already has that job.

[Richard M. Benjamin]

09:20 PM on 02/19/2009

I hope so, too, OverIt!