In a March 4 post on her blog titled, "Hey, Eric Holder: Meet My People," Michelle Malkin attacked Attorney General Eric Holder for his recent reference to “my people” and wrote that his use of the term was “an unmistakably color-coded and exclusionary reference intended to deflect criticism of the Obama Justice Department's selective enforcement policies.”
*Malkin, a Fox News contributor, is just the latest conservative media figure to attack Holder for his comments. As we documented, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft, and The Washington Times, among others, used Holder's comments to claim he is a “black nationalist” and that the Obama Justice Department is motivated by “racial bias.” In his statement, Holder actually took issue with the suggestion that a 2008 incident involving the New Black Panther Party was a more “blatant form of voter intimidation” than what occurred in the 1960s; Holder said the suggestion “does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all.”
From Malkin's blog post:
In pandering to skin-deep identity politics and exacerbating race-consciousness, Holder has given the rest of us a golden opportunity to stand up, identify “our people” and show the liberal poseurs what post-racialism really looks like.
Herman Cain is my people. He's my brother-in-arms. I've never met him. But we are family. We are kin because we are unhyphenated Americans who are comfortable in the black, brown and yellow skin we are in. We are growing in numbers -- on college campuses, in elected office, on the Internet, on radio airwaves, everywhere. And that drives liberals mouth-frothing crazy.
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Val Prieto is my people. A fierce, freedom-loving American blogger of Cuban descent, he rejects race-card games and refuses to be lumped in with Hispanic ethnic grievance-mongers.
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Katrina Pierson is my people. She's a feisty young Texas mom and Dallas tea party activist who supports limited government principles and rejects left-wing identity politics. She confronted the NAACP last year with a rousing manifesto of political independence and rebutted the left-wing group's attacks on the tea party as racist[.]
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Allen West, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and freshman congressman from Florida who happens to be black, is my people. Unafraid to skewer progressive sacred cows, he speaks boldly against global jihad and its Fifth Column enablers screaming “Islam-o-phobe!” West has also nailed the Congressional Black Caucus as “a monolithic voice that promotes these liberal social welfare policies and programs that are failing in the black community, that are preaching victimization and dependency; that's not the way that we should go.”
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It's government of, by and for the people -- all the people. Not just the ones still shackled by reflexive Democratic Party loyalty. We are beholden not to our skin pigment or ethnic tribes, but to American ideals, tradition, history and faith in the individual.
Three, two, one ... RAAAAAAAAAACISTS!
*This post has been updated.