Oddly enough, I don’t feel blessed.
Via Medaite:
Benjamin Jealous, the former president of the NAACP, appeared on MSNBC on Thursday and praised Attorney General Eric Holder‘s remarks before the National Action Network, in which he implied that both he and President Barack Obama suffer race-based indignities from conservatives. Jealous said the nation should count itself “blessed” to have such an honest attorney general and blamed the tea party for the racial antipathy directed at White House officials.
“We should count ourselves blessed that we have an AG who will speak to us about the truth,” Jealous said of Holder’s remarks. “I know perhaps better than most just the ugly sort of threats and disrespect that those who seek to do the work of civil rights have been subjected to in these past several years.”