"We have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards...America in the year 2009 does not, in some ways, differ significantly from the country that existed some fifty years ago... Given all that we as a nation went through during the civil rights struggle." Eric Holder speech for Black History Month 2009 I was not going to publish this until after Eric Holder addressed the NAACP, just to see if he would lay off his full frontal attack on George Zimmerman. Instead, Holder targeted the "Stand Your Ground" laws as the REAL problem...