Totally! But oddly, he was calling himself Eric Holder back then.
As college sophomore, Eric Holder participated in ‘armed’ takeover of former Columbia University ROT http://t.co/RK3K0r6U
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) October 1, 2012
Decades before Eric Holder’s Department of Justice oversaw the deadly Operation Fast and Furious, the nation’s highest-ranking law enforcement official participated in what the Columbia University Black Students’ Organization called an “armed” takeover of the campus ROTC office.
As a freshman at Columbia University in 1970, future Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a five-day occupation of an abandoned Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) headquarters with a group of black students later described by the university’s Black Students’ Organization as “armed,” The Daily Caller has learned.
And then he moved on to bigger and better things, like gun running http://t.co/lZCmgAy4
— Kemberlee Kaye (@KemberleeKaye) October 1, 2012
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/statuses/252772432639832064
The Daily Caller reports that Holder has given conflicting accounts of the armed protest that resulted in renaming the campus space the “Malcolm X lounge.” In a 2009 speech, he claimed the radical group wanted to “peacefully occupy one of the campus offices.”
Read the whole Daily Caller report, which includes details of Holder’s leadership role in the separatist Student Afro-American Society, a group that “actively supported the Black Panthers and the Black Power movement.”
#DidYouKnow Eric Holder is a former jr. wanna-be Black Panther? Explains a lot, doesn't it? http://t.co/VSsu8DXo pic.twitter.com/UYEYdOaY
— novaculus ❌ renegade dreg ?? (@novaculus) October 1, 2012
Note the Marxist jargon: Eric Holder says he worked for the "rise of black consciousness" while a student at Columbia.http://t.co/EpdqrFu7
— Tim Groseclose (@Tim_Groseclose) October 1, 2012
https://twitter.com/michaeljohns/status/252784574051000320
Forward! To Holder’s DOJ refusing to prosecute New Black Panther Party members for voter intimidation.
No wonder Eric Holder wouldn't prosecute Black Panther voter intimidation in 2008! http://t.co/Neqe260r via @mboyle1 #Resist44
— Leslie ن (@LADowd) October 1, 2012
WTF! How Eric Holder is our nations lead DOJ is comprehensible! http://t.co/SU7nCBl3
— Half Cocked (@DroppinBrass) October 1, 2012
The idiots from America's worst generation -mine- are now running the country.
http://t.co/qwnk2mB4— John Steigerwald (@Steigerworld) October 1, 2012
And 3 … 2 … 1 … racist!
https://twitter.com/REALBROTHER0003/status/252761848586334209
Mother Jones’ Adam Serwer must be proud to share the equally incisive analysis as the esteemed @REALBROTHER0003.
https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/statuses/252772606623748096
https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/statuses/252773354501705730
Oh no, Eric Holder was a college student with an afro at Columbia. IMPEACH.
— Human Capital Stock Unit Designate "Zandar" (@ZandarVTS) October 1, 2012
Love-Hate: Palin Women & Young Black Men. RT @SarahPalinUSA As sophomore, Eric Holder in armed takeover of Columbia ROT http://t.co/M19iC9QB
— Karen Hollander (@KarenHollander1) October 1, 2012
Er … who’s the racist? We’d bet cash money there will be more where that came from. For now, let the desperate spin begin!
@AdamSerwer the original quote is probably "armed with only their wits and a desire for freedom."
— Chip Hosken (@chip_esq) October 1, 2012
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