“Think about that,” Holder said. “When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia, which was inappropriate....to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people,” said Holder, who is black.
Seeing that quote means that ‘my people’ does not mean ‘my Justice Department people’, or ‘my Democrat people’ or any of the more acceptable meanings, including ‘my Southern people’ (he is from the Bronx, NYC and his folks are from the Caribbean).