Posted on 02/18/2009 10:02:01 AM PST by kcvl
Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing unresolved 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 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."
He urged people of all races to use Black History Month as a chance for frank talk about racial matters.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing unresolved 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 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."
He urged people of all races to use Black History Month as a chance for frank talk about racial matters.
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Beautious.
I’ve heard that oversized clothing started in the jails & the street thugs want to emmulate that. Wonderful society, ain’t it!?!?
I thought life was going to be all fairies and unicorns by now...
Hey, Holder, kiss my ass!
Holder thinks he’s actually relevant. People like him are the ones that keep racism going.
“I hang out on Wednesday nights and Sunday mornings with Methodists. I wonder if Holder thinks that makes me cowardly anti-Semitic or anti-Catholic”
Good analogy.
BTTT
Yeah, let’s go yakking on about the problems each race has with the other races so that we can start a race riot. Fun for the whole family!
"Holder said that the country is now a “fundamentally different” place than it used to be, but that the nation “still had not come to grips with its racial past, nor has it been willing to contemplate, in a truly meaningful way, the diverse future it is fated to have.”
For those of you that don't speak Democrat Victomology, allow me to translate.
"We wants our reparations and weez gonna get 'em."
Just what we need in government - more race hustlers.
Everybody needs to go out and hug a Crip or a Blood.
The very plan of Porkulas was a plan to get back at the white power structure, bail out minorities who had bad mortgages, and put profit in the rear of our economy. Stimulus is for losers in our society and punishes producers. The Swedenization of America. BHO is a tyrant after just 4 weeks.
You were there in the room? I thought it was just the two of them in private...Thanks for the eyewitness report.
"But weez smarter'n ta call 'em reparations cuz we intend to come back to dis well over and over agin."
Land IS a form of wealth (as far as I know), and 0 DOES think spreading the wealth is kinda cool.
Response: I don't think the blacks would like a "Talk" about race, and still less would they appreciate any action on the topic.
Mr. Holder, I live my life based on these words spoken 45 years ago in Washington D.C.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
Unfortunately, Mr. Holder does not live his life by these words. He continues to judge by the color of one's skin rather than by the content of one's character.
Can racial-enlightenment-re-education camps be far off someplace in the future, after this kind of rhetoric?
I have always found it ironic that the two Senate office buildings are named after Richard Russell - the Democrat Senator who led the filibuster against the Civil Rights Act - and Everett Dirksen - the Republican Senator who overcame that filibuster to get the Civil Rights Act passed into law.
Russell would continue his segregationist ways just as Jimmy Carter would invite Lester Maddox to run on his gubernatorial ticket, while Dirksen would go on to write the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Republicans. Go figure.
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