last weekend
in New York City, at the hands of a African American man with a lengthy
criminal record, fresh from his participation in anti-police activities;
coupled with numerous “don’t shoot, hands up,” and “black lives matter”
anti-police protests (some of which are violent) occurring daily around the
nation, I am compelled to write you this letter.
To be blunt Mr. Holder, I am appalled at your
lack of leadership as the Attorney General of the United States and your
blatant politicizing of the Department of Justice. Your actions, both publicly
and privately, have done nothing to quell the complex racial issues we face in
our country and have done everything to inflame them. As the “top cop” of the
United States, you share in the blame for much of the violence and protests we
are now witnessing against law enforcement officers honorably serving
throughout our nation.
During one of your first public speeches as
Attorney General you made it a point to call America “a nation of cowards”
concerning race relations. That speech, followed by other public announcements
where you emphatically opined that the odds were stacked against African
Americans in regard to the enforcement of law, your intention to change the
law and permit convicted felons to vote after incarceration, and your changes
to federal law ending “racial profiling,” are poignant examples of how
detached you remain from the challenges faced by law enforcement officers
serving in crime ridden neighborhoods throughout the nation. These opinions
are also indicative of a man that lives and works in the elitist “bubble” of
Washington D.C.
Your performance, as the nation’s Attorney
General, during the Trayvon Martin case in Sanford, Florida and the Michael
Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri clearly highlights your myopic view on this
topic. Contrary to your embarrassing prejudgment in the Brown case and evasive
post trial remarks on the Martin case, neither Brown nor Martin were targeted
and/or killed because of their African American race. Rather, as non-emotive
investigations determined, both teens died as a consequence of their own
tragic and egregious behavior; behavior that involved a violent assault on a
law abiding citizen in the Trayvon Martin case, and a violent assault on a
young police officer in the Michael Brown case. Yet you, as the number one
spokesman for law enforcement in the country, blame the deaths of these men on
years of institutional racism and the alleged epidemic targeting of African
American men by police departments around the country; nothing could be
further from the truth. Following the Michael Brown case Grand Jury decision
all you could muster was the following comment:
“The Department of Justice is currently
investigating not only the shooting but also the Ferguson police department in
what is called a “patterns and practices” inquiry to determine if the police
department has engaged in systematic racism.”
So, let’s get this straight. At a decisive moment
in history when our nation required a strong and unbiased voice from its’
senior law enforcement official, you Mr. Holder, made it your personal mission
to join with other racial antagonist and politicize a tragic event, accusing a
young white police officer of a racially motivated killing in what we now know
was a justified self-defense shooting of a predatory felon. Your behavior is
unbelievable. You sir, have sacrificed your integrity on the altar of
political expediency. You, Mr. Holder, are the “coward” and hypocrite you so
loudly denounce when speaking of broken race relations in
America.
Further to this point Mr. Holder, law enforcement
officers around the country remain dismayed and shocked at the counsel you
keep; that being your close relationship with none other than Al Sharpton, a
racist “shake down artist” who spreads hate, divisiveness and the promotion of
anti-law enforcement sentiment throughout the country; a tax evading fraudster
who has unbelievably visited the White House over 80 times in recent years. It
is simply beyond my comprehension as a former federal law enforcement
professional, that you, the Attorney General of the United States, joined arms
in common cause with a charlatan like “the Reverend” Al Sharpton; and it
speaks volumes to your personal character and lack of professional
judgment.
Violent crime, out of wedlock births, drug abuse,
rampant unemployment and poverty found in many low-income minority
neighborhoods are not a result of racist community policing and racial
profiling as you so quickly assert, and frankly most law abiding Americans are
exhausted of hearing this false narrative repeated time and again by you and
others in the racial grievance industry. While no one, me included, would ever
suggest that African Americans have not suffered from institutional racism in
the past, I would strongly argue that we no longer live in the Mississippi of
1965, nor do we live in a country that even closely resembles the “Jim Crow”
South of yesteryear. Those days, thankfully, are in the past as are the
generations of Americans that supported such egregious behavior and endured
such suffering.
Rather, Mr. Holder, we live in a day and time
where the root cause of many problems faced in our African American
communities can be attributed to the breakdown of civil order due to the
rejection of institutional and family authority and the practice of
counter-culture values; and most notably, from the absence of strong male
leadership in fatherless black families. The reason that our local police
officers are so often entwined in tragic events in black communities is
because it is the police that have filled the void in these communities that
should be occupied by moral and strong black men leading family units with
Godly values. You, Mr. Holder, especially, should be thanking the police
rather than persecuting them for the gap they fill in these communities
because if it were not for the intervention of local police many African
American neighborhoods would be in a state of total
anarchy.
Yet tragically, you and your race-baiting
colleague Al Sharpton (a paid media personality under contract with MSNBC
news) choose to remain silent because to publicly speak this self-evident
truth threatens to not only alienate and offend the most loyal voting
constituency of the Democratic Party but diminish your and Al Sharpton’s
self-serving power base in these suffering communities. God forbid that you
would suggest individual citizens accept responsibility for their own behavior
and the collective failure of their communities; it is so much easier for you
and others like you to make excuses, play the victim card, and pander rather
than address the real root causes that plague many low income
neighborhoods.
Mr. Holder, the public is aware of FBI statistics
that tell a different story than the one you and Sharpton preach. We know that
young African American males, representing a tiny fraction of the U.S.
population, are by far the greatest perpetrators of violent crime in America
when compared to their peers in other ethnic groups, and, we know that
citizens of African American descent overwhelmingly make up the majority of
their victims. We also know that incidents where white police officers shoot
and kill black perpetrators are rare and on the decline. We know further that
although there are legitimate and bona fide Federal Civil Rights
investigations in the United States worthy of pursuing, they are miniscule
when compared to the false narrative portrayed by you, President Obama and
Sharpton declaring rampant discrimination against African American men by
police officers throughout the country. You are just plain
wrong.
In closing Mr. Holder I will leave you with this
thought; you were given a rare opportunity to lead with integrity during a
variety of divisive and controversial issues during your tenure as the 82nd
Attorney General of the United States and rather than be a man of moral
courage you chose instead to cower, further inflame racial tensions, advance
false narratives and play progressive political activist.
Time and again you chose to “politicize” the
mission of the Department of Justice rather than pursue justice and now,
tragically, we are witnessing the fruits of your irresponsible behavior in the
murder of two innocent police officers in New York City, assassinated by a man
motivated by the flames of racial hatred that you personally fanned. How many
more police officers will be injured or die in the coming days because of the
perilous conditions you helped create in this nation. You, President Obama and
Al Sharpton own this problem lock, stock and barrel and now it is your
legacy.
As thousands of NYPD officers turn their
collective back on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, another dishonest politician
and Sharpton disciple, so too do countless Federal law enforcement officers
turn our backs on you.
K. Dee McCown
FBI (1997 – 2008)
CC: Senator Mitch McConnell
Senator John Cornyn
Senator Ted Cruz
Senator Harry Reid
The Honorable Bill Flores
The Honorable John Boehner
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi”
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