Pajamas Media recently reported Eric Holder’s Schedule: Frequent Meetings With Race-Based Groups. Holder, it turns out, has had lots of company from other Obama appointees visiting the race industry. Here, for example, is a partial guest list for last weeks convention of the National Action Network, the organization of race hustler Rev. Al Sharpton:
Several officials from the Obama Administration attended the NAN convention, including Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Regina M. Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States; Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood; and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, as well as leading members of Congress and activists such as Martin Luther King III, National Urban League President Marc Morial, NAACP President Ben Jealous, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights President Kerry Kennedy and many others. Both the families of Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old who was fatally shot a week after performing with her high school band at the Inauguration of President Barack Obama, and the family of Trayvon Martin were in attendance.
NAN’s number one “action plan”? Attacking major U.S. corporations.
Firstly, the organization will target major private corporations about their employment, procurement and inclusion practices at board levels. According to Sharpton, “The reason that Black unemployment has remained high is that the public sector jobs are being cut while the private sector has increased jobs but lowered its commitment to inclusion and hiring and doing business in our community. NAN intends to go at major industries that sell their goods in our community but do no good with our community.” This week, Sharpton will be sending out letters seeking meetings with 10 CEOs of major corporations and will publicly release findings relating to business and hiring practices in communities of color.
Well, no wonder there were so many high level Obama administration officials present to give encouragement.
