The Racially Biased Dennis Marks Calls Out Another Black "Racist"

In regards to the Senate rejecting President Obama's nomination of Debo Adegbile to head the DOJ's civil rights division (afterwhich Adegbile announced he was withdrawing as a nominee and going into private practice), the following comment was offered by our friend Dennis Marks (AKA dmarks)...

Dennis Marks: The seven Democrats who voted him down were heroic: bucking party to go with principle to keep a racist out of a high office. (3/6/2014 AT 5:11:00pm EST).

This is Dennis calling out another Black person "racist". "Racist" in quotes, because, as his buddy rAtional nAtion points out "I have neither read or heard anything that would lead me to believe Adegbile is a racist".

The reason Dennis accuses Adegbile of racism? His reason is the same as that proffered by the Repubs (who all voted NO).

U.S Senators from both parties objected to Adegbile's signing of an appeal for Black Panther member Mumia Abu-Jamal who was convicted in 1982 for the first-degree murder of Daniel Faulkner, a Philadelphia police officer, on 12/9/1981. Mumia Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death, although the death sentence later was vacated because of problems with jury instructions. Adegbile and other lawyers filed an unsuccessful amicus curiae brief with the United States Supreme Court in 2009, arguing that the conviction was invalid because of racial discrimination in jury selection. (Wikipedia/Debo Adegbile/Nomination to be Assistant Attorney General).

Only in the mind of Dennis (and other racists) are concerns about racial discrimination racist. As Media Matters points out "The legal arguments of the NAACP LDF on behalf of condemned prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal were not in regards to his innocence but rather to unconstitutional death sentencing jury instructions".

Under our system, EVERYONE (even guilty people) is entitled to the best defense their lawyer can mount. Adegbile was simply doing his job as a lawyer, not unlike Chief Justice John Roberts, who "helped represent Florida death row inmate John Ferguson, convicted in the murder of eight people".

The racism charge is completely bogus and ONLY being made because Adegbile's skin color is the same as the person he signed a brief in defense of. And then, only because that skin color is Black. If Adegbile were White, or if they (lawyer and defendant) were both White? There would have been no accusations of racism. The accusations were only made for political/racially-biased reasons.

rAtional nAtion is obliviously unaware (or simply doesn't care), but Dennis has a long record of accusing Black people of racism. Attorney General Eric Holder, American civil rights activist and Baptist minister Jesse Jackson, attorney and author Van Jones, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (the Democrat representing California's 13th district), the 65th US Secretary of State Colin Powell, the Reverend Al Sharpton, MSNBC personality Toure, the rapper Common, and many more (I'm sure).

Likely there are others, but these are the ones I've recorded Dennis commenting on. Dennis is the kind of White person who spends most of his time (when he's thinking of racism) worrying about the "racist Blacks".

I'd also like to direct your attention to a comment from dmarks concerning Barack Obama. While he did not use the word "racist" to describe our current POTUS, Dennis did use a bunch of dog whistles that racists use.

Dennis Marks: You should have looked at his career [Obama's] before he ran. His appointment to his Harvard Law post by supposedly well-meaning racists not because he was qualified at all, but explicitly because of his skin color. His involvement as a "community activist" in which he encouraged people not to work for a better life, but instead to beg for handouts from those who did, teaching people to blame others for problems they brought on themselves. His listless and lazy and by any objective standard, unremarkable legislative record. (1/14/2014 AT 5:26pm).

So, Dennis belives our president to be lazy by "any objective standard", huh? I don't know about you, but my objectivity tells me that this dmarks fellow is a racist. Although he apparently believes there are some "good ones" (like former House member Allen West).

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