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That may be true. I wish i knew what Mr. holder had in mind other than mere group identity. If that is his meaning than he is no different than many white Southerners whose unofficial but real mantra was ‘the white boys all stick together’. Unfortunately I think the meaning is much more profound than just some jejune ethnic cliquishness. Most black people of Gen. Bostick’s generation had a pretty heavy dose of black church evangelical religion. Whatever messages of economic liberalism and state-ism these churches promulgated there was a lot of standard evangelical personal morality based on Biblical principles taught. Bostick specifically rejects these moral teachings in his abrasive dismissal of the profound ethical dilemma the official norming of homosexuality by the armed forces presents any serious Christian in uniform and more especially so those who are chaplains. that leads me back to the beginning. I fear ‘Holder's people’ are not just all people of color but only those who can only relate to statesim, moral relativism, and perpetual agitational anger. All of these things are implicit or explicit rejections of fundamental moral tenets of Christianity.