Racism cannot be discussed in this country, because if you do not hold a politically correct view you are automatically branded a racist. Everyone with half a brain knows that the PC view comes from the liberals and their do what I say, think what I think or we will demonize you policy. It is pathetic that the Attorney General of the United States would sink this low and make this comment, but then can we expect anything less considering who his boss is? We also know that if a white Republican had said this all hell would have broken loose by now. The press would be in a feeding frenzy, at least those left, who had yet to join the Obama administration as the payoff for their helping to put him into office.
I think Holder should be forced like Trent Lott to go around to all white organizations and apologize repeatedly for what he said. Oh, wait a minute there aren’t that many because they would be deemed racist. Maybe he should go to the White entertainment channel, oh wait a minute I don’t think they have one of those either. Well maybe he could be a Judge and make an apology at the Miss White America pageant…
Maybe we can just forget the whole thing, after all, is his opinion really relevant to most Americans? The problem with Mr. Holder and those that think like him is that they still see color. Martin Luther King Jr’s dream has not been achieved even with the buying of the Presidency by Obama and his allies in the press. Using Reverend King’s standard I would never associate with Holder because his comments show a serious lacking in the content of his heart, and a total lack of content of the mind. Besides, who is the coward for waiting until he was already Attorney General before making such an idiotic comment?
Holder: US is nation of cowards on racial matters
By DEVLIN BARRETT. AP news
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.
"It is an issue we have never been at ease with and, given our nation's history, this is in some ways understandable," Holder said. "If we are to make progress in this area, we must feel comfortable enough with one another and tolerant enough of each other to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us."
He told Justice Department employees they have a special responsibility to advance racial understanding.
