Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder says there is more racism in the Justice Department than anywhere in the St. Louis area
Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, a Republican, had an angry retort to the Justice Department’s report on racism in Ferguson. On Monday, during an interview on NewsMax TV, Kinder said there is more racism in the Justice Department than anywhere in the St. Louis area. He accused Holder and Obama of “inciting” the mobs in the wake of the Michael Brown shooting.
Here are some of the comments Kinder made:
“There is more racism in the Justice Department than there is in anywhere I see in the St. Louis area. We are making progress. We’ve come an enormous way in 50 years. That’s not to say we don’t have still have more to do. But it is the left — it is the Eric Holder and Obama left — and their minions who are obsessed with race, while the rest of us are moving on beyond it.”
“The whole blowup of this protest movement was based on the lie that never happened of ‘hands up don’t shoot.’ It’s bad enough the protesters were behaving that way, but we have a right to expect much more from the attorney general, the head of the Justice Department of the United States, and the president of the United States. And instead, what we got too often from them was incitement of the mob, and, uh, encouraging disorder in Ferguson and disrupting the peaceable going-about of our daily lives in the greater St. Louis region. Many of them have spent most of their careers defending Black Panthers and other violent radicals.”
I can understand that as a Republican, Kinder could be expected to react publicly to the Justice Department’s report and Holder’s threat to “dismantle” the Ferguson police department. However, in his obvious anger, I think he may have gone a tad over the top.
President Obama was supposed to be the great unifier. Instead, thanks to Obama and Holder, this country is now divided the most it’s been since the Lyndon B. Johnson administration.
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