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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How can we, when we (whites, at least,) have to walk on eggshells and anything we say that isn't absolutely PC might be seen as "racist"? Besides, when he says we don't talk enough about race, what he really means is, blacks don't complain enough and whites don't grovel enough. He doesn't REALLY want people to be honest about race.
Well, so much for electing a half-black President as a cure for Amerikkkan racism. According to our new black AG, we still suck.
If you want to foster a discussion on race then drop the asinine belief that only whites can be racist.
None of my ancestors were slave owners, 2 gggg grandfathers fought on the Union side with their brothers! One grandfather survived Andersonville prison camp.
I don’t can’t care if a person is black, I DON’T CARE! Should blacks be treated “specially” as if they were a backward, retarded people? Oh, yeah, I know the government has done this and blacks accept it because it seems profitable for them, but SHOULD we treat them “specially”?
“Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.”
Headline: Holder imposes forced bussing of whitey into the hood on weekends.
He is just out for more White guilt.
Doing several things at once led to posting on the wrong thread. Sorry
Do blacks self-segregate?
Does Holder intend to force whites into lowriders or show their underwear when they are wearing pants?
I have a dream that my 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.
Yes. Thank you for correcting that person’s ill-advised statement.
Standard crap that whites must be servile and assume a brow beating from their racial betters, ho hum.
Yup.
Here we go.
Obama’s Coronation marks the triumph of the perpetually offended.
The vile bitterness and resentment is just beginning to pour out.
Four years of payback for imaginary sleights coming at us.
His boy zero is the one who hangs out with racists and terrorists. Holder is just another example of the bad company zero keeps.
One again these people have proved what their purpose is in life: Talk is precious, but action is cheap.
I will spend my free time with whomever I wish, Mr. Holder.
You are not on my guest list(but I guess you could say that you are on my black list).
Good Lord, it must be a very difficult thing to be as virtuous as Mr. Holder.
Rednecks and gangbangers .... now that would make for an interesting day's TV. Maybe there's a show in that as well. Well, a reality show or a first person shooter game.
Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.
No we don’t. What planet is this guy from. Planet X?
Geez, Eric get out of DC your brain is rotting.
No, no, no! The Justice Department employees have a special responsibility to enforce the law.
I want to know in what kind of neighborhood Eric Holder lives. Does he live in ‘da hood’? If not, he’s a racist.
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