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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Typical racist poverty pimp.
That too.
Like Virginia Governor Mills Godwin who has a street named after him in my town, a huge family plot in the historic graveyard and his own room in Riddick’s Folly House and Museum.
I talk frankly about race all the time. Holder wouldn’t want to hear it. Because I’m not seeking equality and trying to put a guilt trip on whites. Just the truth, and people like Holder can’t handle the truth.
Gang-banger (c)RAP music just ain't my thang Holder.
Actually come to think of it I have invited them back home for BBQ's and such ... been turned down every time.
“am i racist ??!!??!!”
yes, cuz you don’t like purple grapes.
You took the words right out of my mouth....Well said!
BOO HOO HOO, Help me I’m Black!
When! When will some people stop being so race based!
Have you noticed how surprised liberals were when a black man became President? They thought it could never happen. Conservatives knew it could and were not surprised when it did.
Obama was elected Liberal God and sinister dictator. He is not a President of anything.
Hey Eric, you hypocritical coward, you wanna talk about unresolved racial issues?
Mugabists are in control. What’s next? Redistribution of land?
These people are unbelievable.
...these people, what do you mean...these people?
Screw Holder!! A White person puts his life and fortune on the line when they discuss race. Race Pimping scumbags like Sharpton and the ENTIRE Black caucus get power and wealth talking about little else. America bought it and gave the ultimate Affirmative action hire to, “The One.”
BTW, who were MAJOR recipients of the crap mortgages that started the meltdown? Minorities Baby! But Holder and the rest will have excuses, after all excuses are their stock and trade.
Holder is a coward on constitutional matters. He’s scared shatless of the 2d amendment.
STFU bigot.
“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.””
Oh, BS! We need to talk about being AMERICAN and stop this race baiting crappola. There’s been too much ‘talk’. It’s meant to divide and conquer and we fall for it every time.
The only true thing about the USA being cowards, is the fear of being called racist over every ‘quota’ policy coming down the pike.
Yes, but not right away.
If we are truly striving to NOT be racist, we should have no NEED to even mention “race”... EVER... right?
We won’t take it into account when dealing with other people, we won’t mention it during job interviews, we won’t divide statistics up by “race”... NONE of that. IF we are going to NOT be racists.
Clearly, Eric Holder is a racist.
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