African Methodist Episcopal Bishops Compare Congressional Censure of Attorney General Eric Holder to Reconstruction-Era Scare Tactics

[T]he African Methodist Episcopal church has a 196 year tradition of speaking truth to power and advocating the active application of the liberating Gospel of Jesus Christ, and [...] those who have held Attorney General Holder, America's first African-American Attorney General, in contempt have been consistently and systematically disrespectful of the Attorney General and of President Barack Obama, and, the attack against Attorney General Holder comes after his stated intent to determine whether recent laws passed to combat non-existent voter fraud are actually efforts at voter suppression that violate the Voting Rights Act. [...Therefore,] the 49th General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church condemns the contemptible action taken against the office held by Attorney General Eric Holder and finds that action to be political in nature and designed, as were the evil strategies employed following the Reconstruction era, to suppress the votes of those who might change the balance of political power in Congress and in the White House.