Holder: 'Nation of cowards' on race

politico.com ^ | Feb. 18, 2009 | ANDY BARR

[Free ThinkerNY]

Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that despite advances, the United States remains “a nation of cowards” on issues involving race.

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, a nation of cowards,” Holder said in remarks to his staff in honor of Black History Month. His comments appear on a transcript provided by the Justice Department.

“Even as we fight a war against terrorism; deal with the reality of electing an African-American, for the first time, as the president of the United States; and deal with other significant issues of the day, the need to confront our racial past and to understand our racial present, and to understand the history of African people in this country — that all endures,” the attorney general added.

“Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.”

[marshmallow]

This sort of language is completely out of line for an Attorney General. This is the type of trash talking you'd expect from Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.

Utterly inappropriate and a disgrace to the office of the Attorney General.

[popdonnelly]

I’ve been hearing about race for the last forty five years. I don’t know what Holder meant by his statement. Maybe he can explain it.

[dadgum]

“Cowards”???

How many white rednecks do you hang with, Mr. Attorney General Eric Holder ???

You are the coward.

[Williams]

He needs to resign for calling Americans cowards and also for the kooky idea that Americans need to constantly talk about their “racial past” - a bizarre and dangerous notion that no attorney general should be advancing.

I’d like this idiot to come to my house to tell me what a coward I am.

[paul51]

we must be a nation of cowards. We don't speak out against this kind of race baiting and hypocrisy for fear of being labeled a racist.

[opus86]

Oh come on. We don't talk about it enough? That's all these race-bating leftists want to talk about - they can't get enough of it. Instead of encouraging people to get on with their lives, work to improve their situation and fight through barriers, leftists want to talk about their grievances ad nauseum.

[Williams]

He mentions electing a black president as if it means almost nothing or is even a problem. Oh yeah, and he’s a black attorney general. Real racial problem we have.

[pgkdan]

I agree with that! White people have been totally cowed when it comes to race.

[KarinG1]

we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial

I can't think of anything I need to discuss with anybody about 'things racial'. Sounds to me like a problem bigots might have. Perhaps the atty. general needs some diversity training.

[Free ThinkerNY]

[goodnesswins]

All WHITE people need to read a book researched and written by a BLACK, FORMER Democrat, Wayne Perryman....titled, UNFOUNDED LOYALTY. He debunks all the myths attributed to Republicans...and exposes the DEMS as the RACISTS they are! (Dems Started the KuKluxKlan...Dems Instituted Jim Crow Laws...Dems tried blocking EVERY Civil Rights Act, including the longest filibuster every by Al Gore, Sr against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Holder is an IGNORANT RACIST....

oh, and by the way...Oprah will NOT talk to Wayne Perryman!

[an amused spectator]

“Even as we fight a war against terrorism; deal with the reality of electing an African, for the first time, as the president of the United States; and deal with other significant issues of the day, the need to confront our racial past and to understand our racial present, and to understand the history of African people in this country — that all endures,” the attorney general added.

There - fixed it.

[Kakaze]

Eric, a nation of p.c. accepting cowards......that's what we became and now MLK will get his dream, we are waking up and tired of the white guilt, imposed upon us.

We will judge you and Obama, and ourselves by the content of our character...it should be a wild ride for your corrupt ass.

[VeniVidiVici]

Crap. Four years of idiots like Holder and Obama will drive me absolutely batty.

[Stepan12]

Atty. General Holder proved his own courage by arranging for the illegal kidnapping Elian Gonzales at gunpoint from Maryslesis. He lied about taking him by gunpoint to FOX news and did not get the proper legal document (a court order) to seize the kid and send him back to Castro.

[rcrngroup]

On a side note, another one of my rants against the "uuuuugly to the bone" Michelle Oboooombi. Does she EVER just have a natural smile to that mug of hers, instead of always some kind of gritted clenched mouth that looks like she just swallowed a sour dill pickle???

As much as I despise & detest the usurper Obooombi in every sense of the word, at least the dude can smile in a natural way.
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[gidget7]

Make a note: buy that book!

Thanks goodness

[biff]

I would like to find this SOB in a dark alley some night. We could discuss his cowardly attributes face to face.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I would have liked to discuss racial issues, but the black punks that were kicking my roommate’s face in didn’t want to stick around and talk politics.

[KoRn]

This man lacks the temperament and overall fitness to be the Attorney General of The United States. He is no more fit to be Attorney General than 0bama is fit to be president.

He is a joke, not too dissimilar from the joke that appointed him...