Holder: “A nation of cowards”

Michelle Malkin ^ | February 18, 2009 03:21 PM | Michelle Malkin

[fiodora]

Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing awkward racial issues.

In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” said Holder, nation’s first black attorney general.

Race issues continue to be a topic of political discussion, Holder said, but “we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race.”

Funny. When I think of racial cowards, I think of Barack Obama at Jeremiah Wright’s church, sitting there week after week, year after year, saying nothing about the separatist demagoguery echoing from the pulpit to the pews.

When I think of racial cowards, I think of all the navel-gazers who fret about poisonous racial dialogue, but say nothing about “My President Is Black” bigotry.

When I think of racial cowards, I think of the people cowed by mau-mau-er Al Sharpton — now attacking the NYPost over a cartoon lampooning that crazy dead chimp.

When I think of racial cowards, I think of the folks who enable p.c. thugs to cry racism over “That One” and “Thug Thizzle” and “tricked out.”

Holder doesn’t want an honest dialogue about race. In the Age of Obama, “talking enough with each other about race” means the rest of us shutting up while being subjected to lectures about our insensitivity and insufficient integration on the weekends.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Holder's idea of a hero.

[rbg81]

Let me guess: we can all stop being “cowards” if we find the courage to pay reparations. Right, Eric?

[Roy Tucker]

Anybody who is a beneficiary and proponent of affirmative action calling other people cowards is a bit rich.

[matchgirl]

Last time I checked, there were a lot of black dorms on college campuses.

[lookout88]

I will, he is the land of the free and home of the brave. Not that kenyan!!

[ABN 505]

I think I will invite the section 8 neighbors over for a cookout next weekend. Then I will take the opportunity to explain to them about the benefits of keeping your property clean as to not let the value of everyone else property head southwards. Also it helps to keep the garbage in the big green plastic container with a cover so it does not attract animals who have a tendency to rip open garbage bags and distribute the contents around the neighborhood. Also it would be nice to attempt to mow your lawn at least once a summer. Diversity it's a beautiful thing!

[Doe Eyes]

So we’re cowardly about race, and always have been?

What about the civil rights movement? What about the courage shown by people of all races to confront segregation and discrimination?

Not to mention just electing a self professed black man as President.

[bestintxas]

If Holder only sees us as black and white and not as Americans, he is a racist, ur and simple.

[fiodora]

What happened with the freedom of association???