AG Holder Needs to Retract False Statement about Domestic Violence
In ringing prose, President Barack Obama underscored his March 9, 2009, memorandum on scientific integrity with this promise: “Under my administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over….To undermine scientific integrity is to undermine our democracy.”
As luck would have it, Attorney General Eric Holder issued a statement a few months later designed to spotlight the issue of domestic violence. In Holder’s own words, “Disturbingly, intimate partner homicide is the leading cause of death for African-American women ages 15 to 45.”
Turns out this statement is not one-sided or misleading. It’s flat-out wrong.
Go to the website of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. There you can fire up the WISQARS (“whiskers”) search engine to glean the leading causes of death for any age group, race, sex, geographical region, or year:
So I entered the data to match Holder’s proclamation — African-American women in the 15-45 year age range. In 2007, the women’s leading causes of death were:
1. Cancer
2. Heart disease
3. Accidents (unintentional injuries)
Thinking something must be wrong, I fiddled with different years — same result. Domestic violence homicides didn’t make the list.
This factual boo-boo came to light in a February 4 USA Today column by Christina Hoff Sommers. Calling on Holder to remove the misstatement “immediately,” the essay enumerated the harms wrought by such wrongful assertions.
“Misinformation leads to misdirected policies that fail to target the true causes of violence,” Dr. Sommers declared. “Worse, those who promulgate false statistics about domestic violence, however well-meaning, promote prejudice. Most of the exaggerated claims implicate the average male in a social atrocity.”
What’s more, these claims are exploited by dictatorial regimes to buttress antiquated human rights policies. “In Europe almost 70% of housewives are beaten by their husbands,” Iranian President Ahmadinejad once asserted, absurdly.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Holder to correct himself.
Truth doesn’t matter to lefties. All that matters is their delusions, which are truth to them.
‘My people’, Holder?
I hear the phrase quite regularly amongst black people I know. Pointing out that if I used the phrase, the howls of racism would reach the rooftops results in either a blank stare or worse, an agreement with that accusation. And thus the double standard grows. It cannot go on.
Holder is paid as DoJ for America, all of it and not just the caucus he indicates as ‘my people’.
Hopefully those excluded from his inner cadre, meaning every white person in the US, will react accordingly come 2012.
What was that thing about no taxation without representation? If in his selectivity, he fails to act for all why should that all act for him?
Holder was a bag man for Clinton and that’s what he is for Obama. Freeing the Lockerbee bomber was a big payday for Obama. Just you wait for the end of the administration. Holder is taking fees from those who need pardons and commutations.
Expecting fairness and honesty from Eric Holder is like expecting a dog not to pee on a fire hydrant. He is a racist bigot who works from his own agenda just as our president does, instead of for the good of the country. Any honest president would have fired him long ago for his misdeeds. Both of them are a disgrace to our fine country and any honest citizen of whatever color should be ashamed that they are in the positions they hold.
Do you remember when the Alberto Gonzolez was villified by the MSM for politicizing the justice department? George Bush replaced about 12 attorneys while Bill Clinton wiped out 70 without comment–of course he was entitled to do that but George Bush did it with political malice aforethought! Average people see the double standard and hypocrisy of these clowns. Eric Holder like his boss the Big O will go down as the worst ever in their respective positions. They will not even be a footnote to a footnote in our history. Holder is a disgrace, a racist, a leftist and like his boss is way over his head, pay grade, and skill set to be doing this job. What a joke he is making of the justice department!!
But Mr. Roberts, AG Holder is far too busy to be held accountable for his words, actions. He’s a government employee, accountability be damned!
Ya know.. Holder calling everyone in the U.S. but Black people ‘cowards’ regarding race discussions (Yep, for we ‘sure’ don’t dscuss or inundated with it already).
Trying to strong arm the state of Georgia in allowing illegal aliens to vote.
Ignoring and dismissing the OVERWHELMING evidence of the black panther dingleberries Nov. 4, 2008 because it ‘demeans his people’. NewsFlash: The ACTIONS of those thugs demeans his people. Resulting in ‘Mr. Fairness’ Holder being absent from his SWORN duties.
Not to mention his limp wristed attempt in attempting unfounded racist intentions of the Arizona citizenry (millions of voters.. why to go Eric!) who’d voted for the LEGAL SB 1070 whereas he and the CiC GUTTED its intention. Odd, considering the language of the Bill is nearly verbatim of the Federal Law HE and the CiC refuse to enforce.
With the Mark Rich phuckup in the Slick Willy days, Holder should have been 3 floors below the surface in some obscure paperpushing gig in Pigsknuckle-Nowheresville.
The sanctimony of the guy is preposterous.
It’s not just the AG, it’s the whole Dept. of Justice — they obfuscate and equivocate about female-initiated abuse.
That’s for sure…
The “good name of the DoJ” will be restored when this moron is gone and some men of princilpe occupy the office once again…
Any chance Mr. Holder may have been projecting from the Obama marriage and those hairy eyeballs Michele seems to aim at our Barry? I wonder if Holder thinks that the separate vacations are to avoid intimate death?
Oh, the humanity…
I’m tired of right-liberals like Mr. Carey giving leftists like Holder the benefit of the doubt. Carey can make a career out of misdirection by lampooning PC all he wants, but meanwhile the evil that underlies it will continue to shovel us all into the maw of the progressive suicide cult.
Regarding Holder, he has an obvious agenda, for which facts are never allowed to get in the way. The agenda?…
In pursuit of absolute equality, the ends justify the means.
Truth? From this administration?
The biggest crime wave to hit America in the history of this nation is Obama as the President and Holder as the Attorney General. All those appointed below them are mere pawns and enjoying the limelight without recourse until they are all relieved of their duties by 2012 and hopefully brought to justice by someone that gives a damn, no matter what the race and color of their skin
I have been so often astonished at the delusions some black people harbor that I wondered why they believe such tripe. Jeremiah Wright, for example, argued from his pulpit that the United States government invented the AIDS virus as a genocidal weapon against black people. One survey by RAND Corporation found that 27% of black people subscribe to this notion, while another 23% are unsure. Pious Black Muslims purport to believe not only that their religious leaders have visited flying saucers to meet with space aliens but also that white people were created thousands of years ago by a mad scientist name Yacub. Then, there is the academic folly of “Afro-centric” history, with its own set of myths. All this would be mere comedy if it didn’t have serious consequences. The reason such a high proportion of the victims of mad preacher Jim Jones were black, three quarters of the dead in Jonestown, is that black people in general and poor black people in particular are more prepared to believe myths like Jones’s crazy conspiracy theories. They are not, repeat not, prepared to challenge any myth propagated by a black person who wears a nice suit and gets on television, even when a minute’s simple research would refute it. Expect black people, including those who regard themselves as intellectuals, to refute Holder’s silly pronouncement and all you’ll hear is crickets chirping.
“Expect black people, including those who regard themselves as intellectuals, to refute Holder’s silly pronouncement and all you’ll hear is crickets chirping.”
Gee, Jack, I don’t think that is an accurate statement. There are plenty of real black intellectuals and other blacks in public life who take on Obama and his administration on a daily basis. Just to name a few, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Armstring Williams and Walter Williams. I recommend you read some of their works. You will change your mind.
Fred, I think Jack was talking generalities. But it is true that 95% of black people consistently vote Democratic. They are the ones, right or wrong, who will block vote. This indicates to me a lack of independent thinking. Is it PC for me to say that, or does that make me a racist?
Oops, fumble fingers. It is Armstrong Williams.
They believe it because they would rather take his word for it, after all he is the AG and black so surely he knows the facts, than research the statistics for themselves. Of course there is the backlash they aren’t willing to suffer if they spoke out against his claims. Reading between the lines of Holder’s claim he labeled a large portion of ‘My people’ as murders. Even in the face of such an insult, by the near deafening sound of crickets chirping, it is better to be labeled falsely and negatively than to destroy the liberal narrative that ‘my people’ believe helps them so much.
Wow it’s funny how people have selective memory. jack you forget a few things like the Tuskegee experiment where from around the 30′s all the way up to the 70′s the U.S. gov’t was injecting black men w/ syphilis & other STD’s to study the effects despite the fact that the effects where already known. America has a long history of this starting w/ the blankets invested w/ chicken pocks given intentionally to Native americans (1st recorded use of biological weapons in known history by the way). Now about the AIDS debate. I would suggest you look up a man called Dr. Sebi. It’s not exactly what you think however some of your questions can be answered. As far the Yacub story goes. I will not argue about it except to say this. Google “all non Africans are part neanderthal” That should answer some questions as well. That is not some “black radical” saying this. It’s your own scientist.
This could be damaging to his credibility, if he had any.
…. protect the “integrity,” the “professionalism” and the “good name” of the Department of (in)Justice ….
The wretched RICO-racketeering, Janet Reno, the Fannie Mae-looting and for the purpose of deflecting Law-Enforcement from the Billy-Bubbah Blythe Crime Family, effectively complicit in the atrocities of September 11 2001, Jamie Gorelick — and the comparatively honest Webster Hubbell, all once be-squatted and be-manured its corridors — and “integrity, professionalism and a good name” can be found there?
Fat Hope.
…. (Holder) is a racist bigot who works from his own agenda just as does Buraq Hussayn bin Buraq Hussayn bin Hussayn 0′Zero, instead of for “the good of the country” ….
“The good of the country” be damned.
That pair of definitively fascist racist bigots are bound to “work for” Rule of Law. For the preservation of and obedience to the united States’ Constitution.
But are both arrogant scofflaws.
…. (Holder) is a racist bigot who works from his own agenda just as does Buraq Hussayn bin Buraq Hussayn bin Hussayn 0′Zero, instead of for “the good of the country” ….
“The good of the country” be damned.
That pair of definitively fascist racist bigots are bound to “work for” Rule of Law. For the preservation of and obedience to the united States’ Constitution.
But are both arrogant scofflaws.
Holder is most likely a dupe, the product/victim of the mindset that believes the old Lenin/Stalin promise of world-wide salvation for the ‘have-nots’ after destroying the ‘haves’, that America is a land of imperialism, racism, etc. He probably views blacks as ‘have-nots’, ignoring the many very wealthy black people in the U.S., along with the entire black middle class. He obviously never read the history of Mao’s China or Lenin/Stalin’s Russia.
Those fortunate enough to have read ‘Dupes’, by Dr. Paul Kengor, are not surprised at this administration’s ideology, including Holder. The book is a compilation of our history since 1917, research that drew from the Soviet Central Files, FBI files, publications by the CPUSA, press files in the U.S., etc. It could only have been written after the fall of the Soviet Union and its subsequent release of files on the interaction between Moscow and the American Communist Party. It up-ends the history taught in our schools and universities, and exposes the most radical universities fostering this ideology. It is the most shocking revelation I have ever read.
The leftist press/media/movies skewed/hid the truth for decades. Not only has the left been duped since 1917, but we have all been lied to by history books, the media and academics. Those who work to destroy free markets and capitalism have been around for over a hundred years, and are still alive and well, 30 years after the USSR went bankrupt. The thoroughly researched ‘Dupes’ provides the proof.
Since those statistics can be presented in a number of ways that add or subtract to the rankings, that is a non-issue for me.
What is the issue for me is how Holder has once again accidentally and coincidentally come up with black skin as having some kind of special interest.
Holder should be fired out of hand – he is a racist plain and simple. The problem for America is that there is no such thing as a black racist according to half our population. The result? Dipshits like Obama and Holder.
Why not just have Rev. Wright as the ambassador to Egypt? He’d have a ‘Black Pyramid Builders History Month’ in seconds flat with giant banners fixed on the sides of the Pyramids of W.E.B. Dubois as the man who actually put forward the ‘Uncertainty Principle’ but accidentally included it in the unpublished manuscript forwarded to a German publisher, “How A Race Of Giants from Africa Built Stonehenge”.
I love it when people try to claim that the ancient Egyptians were not black Africans despite the fact that they claim to originate from sub sahara Africa & the fact that it is Africa & there was never any lost race found there. National geographic actually put a face of a white looking king kut & tried to say he was “indo european” & we are suppose to trust that yet not their own claims? Nice try guys the wall is breaking down on that lie & in states like texas people like the ones on this board want to re write history. Simply amazing.
If Holder started to retrace and apologize for his incorrect statements he wouldn’t be done by the next Presidential election. He is a lying political hack and I hope the career DOJ people are keeping documentation of his possibly illegal activities.
His statement may in fact be true, if by “death” he meant “murder” or unlawful homicides among black females.
News Flash! Google up American Thinker and read this article(Bloody Fast and Furious program approved by Holders DOJ) This will make you all sit up and take notice! Holder and Obama’s days of reign might well be numbered!
Remeber that Google is heavily intertwined with the Obama adminstration, the riots in Egypt, and collection of information for government databases. We might want to say “look up” this info instead of “google” it. Just sayin’.
Holder is a communist. What does anyone expect him to say?
Facts???
Who needs facts when you have the narrative of your ideology to guide you to the truth?
“Homicide
The same CDC reports say that homicide is the:
* the leading cause of death among black men aged 15-34 years. (Three age categories!)
* the second leading cause of death for black women aged 15-24 years.
* the fifth leading cause of death for black women aged 25-34 years.
Among women aged 15-24, homicide accounts for 5% of premature deaths in white females, but 20% of all premature deaths by black females.
Among both black and white men, homicide deaths peak at aged 25-34. The death rate by homicide among white men in this age group is 12.5 per 100k, and accounts for 10% of all premature deaths. The death rate by homicide among blacks in this age group is 101.8 per 100k, and accounts for 48% of all premature deaths.
The majority of black female homicide victims are killed by a current or former boyfriend, which many refer to as “femicide.” About 93% of all black homicide victims are killed by a black perpetrator overall. 85% of white homicide victims are killed by a white perpetrator.
“The National Black Women’s Health Project” has identified the battering of women as the number one health issue for African American women (Joseph, 1997).
Femicide is a leading cause of premature deaths in African American women aged 15-44. (Journal of Issues in Nursing Vol 7, No. 1)
In 1998, Salber and Taliaferro reported that the spousal homicide rate among African Americans is 8.4 times more than for whites. The incidence of spousal homicide is 7.7 times higher in interracial marriages compared to intraracial marriages. (Source WebMD.com)
Relationships with black men dramatically increase a woman’s chances of dying young.
Black females aged 15-19 are 3.9 times more likely to die of homicide or AIDS than white females in the same age group. This increases to 4.4 time for females aged 20-24 and 7.3 times for 25-34.
White women who engage in relationships with black men dramatically increase their chances of premature death or long term health problems from murder, beatings, and STDs.”
I conclude that Holder is probably correct, if he was talking about homicide. His “people” can be harmful to your health.
Under Holder, DoJ is nothing but a department of racist anti-American, anti-white, anti-scientific cowards.
Holder and his boss, the hidden records Barry, are affirmative action incompetent, radical fools.
They should be put to trial for treason, and if found guilty put in jail for life. The harm they’ve done to America is far beyond due to simple derilection of duty and mismanagement, it’s intentional societal destruction.
Why the GOP leadership in the House isn’t seeking impeachment is beyond me. They should be held accountable too.
“intimate partner homicide”
Geez Eric, a term almost as idiotic as “man caused disaster” to describe terrorist acts.
Truly a brain dead Attorney General, who was on the tee vee just a few days ago essentially arguing that failure to enforce the law against the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation in Philadelphia, 2008, was justified relative to treatment of blacks in the south in the 1960′s.
Huh ?
An AG who gets to pick and choose what laws to enforce as a function of his own skewed and error ridden view of the universe.
“. . protect the integrity, the professionalism, and the good name of the Department of Justice.” How can you protect anything that has already been stripped away? Thanks for the help in locating the stats.
I seriously doubt that Eric (My People) Holder will make any attempt to set the record straight.
‘…I cannot fault Mr. Holder for his factual hiccup. After all, public officials make statements every day, and they can’t be expected to fact-check each jot and tittle of every speech.”
Agreed. Pretty bold “jot” though.
I can see exactly how Mr. Huckabee made the week long “gotcha” of his Kenya gaffe that was correctly cited in his book.
Where, exactly, did Mr. Holder get the input for this “leading-cause-of- death” tidbit? Who is he (ahem) listening to that so grossly misstates such made-up, gyno-centric, propaganda designed to influence politics, and “current trends” in “action” policy of DoJ?
MyPeople Holder is in defense of his people, period. Hence, to punish his people of wrong doing would be considered a betrayal to his people, no matter what the criminal circumstance imparted.
Since it is defensible for Holder that his people had suffered much in the history of slavery, descendants of slave owners – almost every generation of native born whiteys – should note the presence of THE THREATENING Black Panther is a lesson of their cruelty to Blacks under Obama Administration, justifable act of compassion to beat the tar of anyone they consider a threat to Obe’s administration.
They might try studying history. They would find out that only a small percentage of whites in the South owned slaves, so most whites are not “descendents of slave owners.” Also, some blacks owned slaves, people of other races and ethnic groups who come here might have owned slaves, and in the North, whites suffered from being indentured servants, which could, and often did, be stretched out to last a lifetime. (And we won’t even mention black and arab slave traders or Europeans captured as slaves.)
To say present-day whites owe something to blacks because of the U.S. history concerning slavery is a generalization beyond belief.
James Taranto’s column in the Wall street Journal yesterday included this letter from a NYC attorney -
“I worked election security for the McCain campaign in Philadelphia on Election Day 2008. I actually witnessed the incident involving the New Black Panthers intimidating voters at the polling place at 1212 Fairmont Avenue in North Philadelphia. I later gave a statement to the Bush Justice Department about the incident. I should note that by the time I arrived on the scene, a Fox News camera crew already was on site filming the Panthers in action. Their tape should corroborate everything I observed at the time.
Here’s the point conservative commentators are missing about the incident: The polling place in question was in a black neighborhood, and all of the voters I observed being intimidated were black. That means, in essence, that it was black-on-black crime. Conservative commentators repeat a mantra that Holder and the Justice Department are failing to enforce the law in a race-neutral way, meaning that they assume that it was blacks intimidating whites.
In an important way, then, the debate to date misses a more important point, and one that I think is politically explosive: Holder’s Justice Department was, in fact, failing to protect black voters by giving lenient treatment to black thugs who were forcibly taking over a polling place for political reasons. To paraphrase Holder’s offensive verbal formulation, he was failing to protect “his people” from black thugs…”
The rest of it is here (second item)
http://online.wsj.com/article/best_of_the_web_today.html
Then how did the comment, “You’re about to be ruled by the black man, cracker” come into the conversation? Could it have been that it took place in a black neighborhood, not to threaten black voters, but to establish a sort of “no-go” zone for any whites in the area, to make them feel threatened by going there (especially since they didn’t have to worry particularly about the black vote)
Fiddlesticks- that link goes to the wrong page. Either scroll down to the bottom and click (Color Us Skeptical 3/3/11) or use the link below.
http://tinyurl.com/5snhnjy
PJM has really sunk to an all time low with the dipshit men linking to cry-baby pro-men sites which are just as obnoxious as women’s liberation website crap.
Why don’t you ALL take a collective crap in your diapers and leave the adults to do the dirty work, because apparently, you are all so infantile and self-congratulatory in your idiocy and self-pity that you can’t see our country is in far worse shape than male/female relations.
Paul Elam and his ilk and followers are exactly why our country is going down the shoot.
Eric Holder, Coward of Truth.