Atty. Gen. Holder: "I am also a black man."

Turned on Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC and she is talking about how Holder went to Ferguson and met with the people there and said even though he was the AG, he told them that he is also a black man, so he understood what they were going through.

Racial division will never end in this country. Never.

Holder told the people the story of his own persecution - how he was stopped at two different occasions on the New Jersey Turnpike by State Troopers and had his car searched. He shared how humiliating it was and how angry he was. That was his persecution story.

I am white. Back when I was in college, I was walking across campus. This was in the 90's and I walked on the side walk through a group of black guys out in the open in between two dorms. It was daylight. This was the way that everyone walked.

They jumped up, surrounded me, knocked my backpack off of me, and started pushing me around the circle like a ball, back and forth. There were about 10 of them. They were laughing and saying they were going to hurt me and and calling me racial slurs. I could not get my balance before they pushed me back to another one. It went on and on. I thought they were going to beat me to a pulp, but I tried to stay on my feet. There was no way to get away. They had the circle closed.

Finally, they decided they were done, and one of them patted me on the butt and said, "Go on, white boy." They were all laughing hysterically. I picked up my stuff and went on.

I was pissed and scared, but I went on to class. I didn't report them. I let it go. I also was more careful the next time I walked through a group of black guys on campus. But, life was too short to worry about idiots.

Now, if I had been black, that would have been reported and MSNBC would have had cameras on campus. Even if I had not reported it, someone would have seen it and it would have been a big deal. By the way, LOTS of people saw what happened to me. It was out in the open on campus. No one said a word.

As a white guy in the South, I had quite a few experiences growing up where I saw black guys in groups wanting to have fun with a white guy - just so they could feel powerful. It was common. It was all racial and there was cursing and often it would end in violence. I never saw white guys do it to black guys. There would have been a race war if they had.

Holder's big story of racial persecution is pathetic. He ought to be embarrassed to go to Ferguson with a story like that and try to emphathize. Is there real racism in America? You bet. Are black people still treated horribly in many cases? Absolutely. But when my story as a white guy is way worse than Holder's, maybe he ought to just be the AG for ALL of us and stop with the pandering.

(None of this is to take away from what people in Ferguson are frustrated about. I am actually sympathetic and understand that there are still very real problems that need to be dealt with. It is Holder who is the problem here).