“The truth is, few on any side of the issue want an honest discussion. Most everyone, including Holder, wants to pretend they are having an honest discussion when what they really want is to advance their personal agenda.”
I don’t agree. There are LOTS of us on the right that would JUST LOVE to have an HONEST talk about race, religion, immigration, and other issues. We simply get called Racists or Nazis every time we try.
La Enchiladita,
Sorry, my reply was for BobL.
Let’s talk honestly about the racism on the right.
As a consultant in many large IT shops I see conservative co-workers and bosses who look at a Black or Hispanic and immediately assume that person is an Al Sharpton or some comedy show dufus. They don’t allow the possibility that the person is a Herman Cain or Clarence Thomas ... or just an ordinary guy like anyone else.
I go to political dinners where people gradually find seats around tables. A conservative Black, clearly a Marine and whom I know to be an Alan Keyes type, asks a white conservative at a table if the chair next to him is taken. The seated conservative tilts the chair forward to lean against the table indicating the chair is taken. As the Black walks towards another table, the white conservative says “I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit next to one of them.”
At a think tank fundraiser dinner, a high profile conservative Black in the think tank is presumed by some big money conservative donors to be part of the waitstaff.
I could give numerous examples. Many conservatives don’t want to face this honestly. Of course, this is not limited to conservatives. Institutionalized racism is on the left where the elite assume that Blacks and Hispanics are too stupid to survive in a competitive society without help from the elite (using conservative taxes of course).