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Holder: US is nation of cowards on racial matters
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96E4E781&show_article=1 ^

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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To: kcvl

Up your ass, Mr Holder.


81 posted on 02/18/2009 10:21:50 AM PST by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: cvq3842

“I think if the people who were holding back comments were less “cowardly” and let loose, the result would not be something Holder would be pleased with.”

You are very likely correct. It almost sounds like Holder is advocating for membership in the KKK......afterall - they seem willing to share their views on race!


82 posted on 02/18/2009 10:22:50 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: Boiling Pots

Hey I see white boys saggin’ too AND the white skater boys where skinny (tight) jeans with there skivves showing too.


83 posted on 02/18/2009 10:22:54 AM PST by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!! I am no LEMMING!)
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To: kcvl

>>...but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives. <<

Times change. People don’t. People like being around people like themselves. And race is only a part of it.

Check out any group associating for a purpose like baseball, football, rc airplanes, etc. You’ll see multiple races represented.

It isn’t about race. It is about culture.


84 posted on 02/18/2009 10:22:55 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

“Headline: Holder imposes forced bussing of whitey into the hood on weekends.”

Mebbe for a change of pace, we can bus blacks into the Latino neighborhoods ... you know, for full circle diversity. LOL ...


85 posted on 02/18/2009 10:22:59 AM PST by mgc1122
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To: kcvl

The people who hate blacks the most are in Africa. Look at Rwanda and Zimbabwe. South Africa is a black ruled disaster

America is a paradise for blacks. They need to chill. Probably most do


86 posted on 02/18/2009 10:23:34 AM PST by dennisw (Archimedes--- Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth)
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To: stylin19a
You mean about How NOT to Get Your a$$ Kicked By the Police?

Because, that is one FUNNY video!

87 posted on 02/18/2009 10:23:36 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: kcvl

>>He urged people of all races to use Black History Month as a chance for frank talk about racial matters.<<

Like, for example, why there is not a “white history month”?


88 posted on 02/18/2009 10:23:42 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
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To: kcvl

OK, lets discuss some unresolved racial issues.

Why did our president spend 20 years in a racist church?


89 posted on 02/18/2009 10:23:46 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Tamar1973

Many of our fellow Americans elected an unabashed Marxist as President of the United States just because he was black.

Maybe that will soothe their conscience and this will be our last token President.


90 posted on 02/18/2009 10:24:22 AM PST by Carry me back
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To: kcvl
Yes, by all means: let us talk about our cowardice with regard to race.

In particular, let us explore the continued and forcible use of racial preferences in order to stigmatize and penalize people with light-colored skin for the unearned benefit of those with darker-colored skin. Let us come to understand how this continued practice of "affirmative action" has caused widespread social polarization while retarding the growth and achievement of the very people it was supposed to help.

Oh, that's not the "discussion" you wanted to have, Mr. Holder? Well that's too bad, because along those lines we also need to talk about how you came to possess your office, specifically: how ability and effort had so little to do with it, and why morality, ethics and our Constitution matter.

91 posted on 02/18/2009 10:24:48 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.)
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To: WoofDog123

Don’t worry, this douchebag and his black militant Marxist master will be dictating what Americans do in their private time quite a bit over the next four years


92 posted on 02/18/2009 10:25:12 AM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: brwnsuga

Sad, isn’t it?

If it wasn’t for my wife, I would tell every “brutha” I see wearing their ridiculous clothes that Brother Obama told them to “pull their pants up.”


93 posted on 02/18/2009 10:26:14 AM PST by Boiling Pots (The Gov't trying to fix the economy is like the Three Stooges trying to fix your plumbing)
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To: tgusa

VIRGINIA ROCKS!!!!!!!!! GO NAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!


94 posted on 02/18/2009 10:28:00 AM PST by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!! I am no LEMMING!)
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To: llevrok
Did he mention how many times democrats blocked racial integration legislation in the past?

The Democrat party has been the party of slavery for two centuries.

Before the war, they planted cotton seeds and reaped cotton; now they plant dollars and harvest votes.

95 posted on 02/18/2009 10:28:12 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: kcvl


Hey Holder, you, Hussein, Wright and your racist thugs, can go to hell!
96 posted on 02/18/2009 10:28:57 AM PST by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: kcvl

Eric wants your wife in his bed.


97 posted on 02/18/2009 10:29:12 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: kcvl

PROSECUTOR Mr. Cartman, do you know a boy by the name of “Token?”

CARTMAN Uh, yes?
PROSECUTOR Who is Token?

CARTMAN He’s a black kid that goes to my school?

PROSECUTOR Black! Did you say black?! You called him black?!

CARTMAN He is black.

PROSECUTOR O! He said it again! He is African-American, and so you decided to pick him out!

CARTMAN I did?

PROSECUTOR The rage built and built inside your head until it became too much because you hate African-Americans!!

CARTMAN No! I hate hippies!


98 posted on 02/18/2009 10:29:46 AM PST by kik5150
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To: kcvl

He wants talk? Here are some comments. White America and the Republican party paid a debt in lives and money from 1860 to 1865 to secure the union and abolish slavery. The GOP was established as the party of abolition. Your scumbag racist and traitorous party instigated the civil war, fought tooth and nail to split the union and trash the constitution and maintain slavery. After the war the GOP enforced voting rights in the south and elected the first black government officials and opened schools all over for blacks. A republican president sent in federal troops to put down the terrorist arm of the democrat party, Mr. Holder’s party, sent in federal troops to allow blacks to enter educational institutions in the south and were the voting block that ensured that the civil rights act would pass in spite of the actions of the majority of the democrat party. You, Mr. Holder can piss off. Blacks in this country squandered the opportunities that still exist for them starting in the 1960s when they bought into the lazy and indolent welfare lifestyle brought in by the old slave masters the democrat party. Talk about race? I don’t give a rat’s ass about race under normal circumstances; work hard, live and take responsibility for your own life and problems like the rest of us and I don’t care about pigmentation. When you run your mouth and pimp the race problems that you are a part of in the democrat party it only makes me want to fight your party of traitors even harder. You can try to bring on a second civil war but you won’t be pleased with the outcome you Nazi socialist POS.


99 posted on 02/18/2009 10:29:46 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: kcvl
He urged people of all races to use Black History Month as a chance for frank talk about racial matters.

Here is some frank talk, Eric.

You'll see your utopian vision when the black crime rate is no higher than the white crime rate. There is nothing "cowardly" about protecting one's family from violent crime.

Oh, and as for your complaint about self-segregation, how's about using your office to do something about the illegal self segregation going on in Congress. I refer to the Congressional Black Caucus, which refuses to admit white members despite the large numbers of blacks they represent. The CBC meets on taxpayer property, on taxpayer time, at taxpayer expense.

Put your money where your mouth is, dude, and put a stop to that.

100 posted on 02/18/2009 10:29:54 AM PST by freespirited (Help save humanity. Cure the RINOvirus.)
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