There’s a reason Holder is friends with scumbags like Al Sharpton.

Via Chicago Sun-Times:

With the nation at another important moment in race relations, I asked Attorney General Eric Holder what he thought of Derrick Rose and LeBron James wearing “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts and if what they were doing was helpful.

“Derrick Rose wore it first,” Holder reminded me about the Chicago Bulls superstar as he applauded the silent protest heard across the country.

Rose wore an “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirt last Saturday during warm-ups before playing the Golden State Warriors, powerfully shining a spotlight on the chokehold death of Eric Garner on Staten Island, whose last words have become a rallying cry.

Other NBA players, including the Cleveland Cavaliers’ James, followed Rose’s lead.

The star athletes are looked up to and “whether they want to be or not, they are role models, they are seen as people who young men especially want to be like,” Holder said as he invoked the name of the first black major league ball player.

“For them to get out there and to express in that way a social conscience, I think goes back to maybe people that these guys don’t even know or my son has a vague awareness of, to Jackie Robinson, who is seen as not only a great athlete, but as an involved, thinking, caring black man.

“And to have LeBron, Derrick Rose and others who wore those ‘I Can’t Breathe’ shirts, that shows a level of involvement. It shows a depth to them beyond just being great ballplayers.”

Said Holder, “And it’s all about our democracy, and who we are as a country that our celebrities, our athletic celebrities, can use their status to express I think what I call a social and political point. I think that’s a good thing.”