Kurt Nicklas
2013-07-21 12:46:28 UTC
SALON WRITER ASKS IF ERIC HOLDER IS OBAMA?S ?INNER N****R?
A writer for the liberal news site Salon opined that Attorney General
Eric Holder is President Barack Obama?s ?inner n-gger.?
Rich Benjamin was reacting Friday to Obama?s surprise remarks about
Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman?s acquittal. Dubbing the speech
?safe, overrated and airy,? Benjamin contrasted Obama?s ?danc[ing]
around the issues? of race while Holder, speaking to the NAACP this
week, gave ?trenchant thoughts on the acquittal, demanding action.?
A writer for liberal site Salon called Attorney General Eric Holder
President Barack Obama?s ?inner n-gger.? (AP)
Obama ?refuse[d] to say anything insightful or profound about the
acquittal,? wrote Benajmin, a senior fellow with the liberal group Demos
and an MSNBC contributor. ?In signature professorial style, the
president gave us the ?context? to the episode and to black people?s
?pain.? But he didn?t offer a meaningful opinion on the episode?s hot
molten core: racial profiling, vigilantism, and ?Stand Your Ground?
laws.?
Image source: Demos
He wrote:
Some of us have an Inner Child. Others have an Inner N-gger. Is Holder
the president?s conscience? Or his Inner N-gger?
Is Holder the president?s aggressive internal mind and voice ? willing
to speak truth to power, but unbothered with appearing like an angry
black man?
?Obama?s Dark Doppelganger,? Benjamin continued, also spoke bluntly in a
2009 speech when he called America ?a nation of cowards? for avoiding
the race issue ? ?retreating to our race protected cocoons, where much
is comfortable and where progress is not really made.?
?The Secret Service calls the president ?Renegade,? his agency
nickname,? Benjamin observed. ?It seems, these days, that Holder is the
real renegade. The country?s Rogue Negro. And the president?s repressed
Black Id.?
Furious reaction to Benjamin?s piece was swift, including from fellow
MSNBC contributors Goldie Taylor and Joy Reid. Taylor tweeted at Salon:
?TAKE IT DOWN.?
A writer for the liberal news site Salon opined that Attorney General
Eric Holder is President Barack Obama?s ?inner n-gger.?
Rich Benjamin was reacting Friday to Obama?s surprise remarks about
Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman?s acquittal. Dubbing the speech
?safe, overrated and airy,? Benjamin contrasted Obama?s ?danc[ing]
around the issues? of race while Holder, speaking to the NAACP this
week, gave ?trenchant thoughts on the acquittal, demanding action.?
A writer for liberal site Salon called Attorney General Eric Holder
President Barack Obama?s ?inner n-gger.? (AP)
Obama ?refuse[d] to say anything insightful or profound about the
acquittal,? wrote Benajmin, a senior fellow with the liberal group Demos
and an MSNBC contributor. ?In signature professorial style, the
president gave us the ?context? to the episode and to black people?s
?pain.? But he didn?t offer a meaningful opinion on the episode?s hot
molten core: racial profiling, vigilantism, and ?Stand Your Ground?
laws.?
Image source: Demos
He wrote:
Some of us have an Inner Child. Others have an Inner N-gger. Is Holder
the president?s conscience? Or his Inner N-gger?
Is Holder the president?s aggressive internal mind and voice ? willing
to speak truth to power, but unbothered with appearing like an angry
black man?
?Obama?s Dark Doppelganger,? Benjamin continued, also spoke bluntly in a
2009 speech when he called America ?a nation of cowards? for avoiding
the race issue ? ?retreating to our race protected cocoons, where much
is comfortable and where progress is not really made.?
?The Secret Service calls the president ?Renegade,? his agency
nickname,? Benjamin observed. ?It seems, these days, that Holder is the
real renegade. The country?s Rogue Negro. And the president?s repressed
Black Id.?
Furious reaction to Benjamin?s piece was swift, including from fellow
MSNBC contributors Goldie Taylor and Joy Reid. Taylor tweeted at Salon:
?TAKE IT DOWN.?