February 18, 2009
Attorney General: You racist cowards
Want proof that Pres. Obama's administration is truly dedicated to beginning a new era in race relations?
Look no further than this report from the Associated Press, covering Attorney General Eric Holder's speech to Justice Department attorneys for Black History Month.
Here's the AG's thesis: When it comes to race "we're essentially a nation of cowards".
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, the 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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He told Justice Department employees they have a special responsibility to advance racial understanding.
Here's some "frank talk": We already spend way too much time talking about race, in an ongoing monologue (often verging on a diatribe) wherein we're berated by race pimps for failing to feel sufficiently awful about our alleged hidden racist natures.
This is especially rich, coming from the nation's first black AG, serving at the pleasure of the nation's first black president.
Clearly, if we're interested in bringing "hope and change" to race relations, what better way to start then to tell us that we're a "nation of cowards."
The Obama administration has gone from zero to insufferable in less than a month.
It truly is a new day in America.
The nation of cowards.
Posted by Mike Lief at February 18, 2009 10:29 AM
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