Attorney General Eric Holder says U.S. exhibits cowardice in discussing racial matters, calls for integration on weekends:
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 I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder said. Race issues continue to be a topic of political discussion, but “we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race.”
“If we’re going to ever make progress, we’re going to have to have the guts, we have to have the determination, to be honest with each other. It also means we have to be able to accept criticism where that is justified,” Holder told reporters after the speech.
Even when people mix at the workplace or afterwork social events, Holder argued, many Americans in their free time are still segregated inside what he called “race-protected cocoons.” “Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad,” said Holder.
I’m sure the “coward” line will haunt the AG for the rest of his career. If there’s one thing Americans don’t like to be called, its “coward.” Calling people cowards is an inappropriate way to promote healthy debate. I like that the AG is calling for such discussion, but he did it the wrong way. This will backfire, and it probably already has.
I think it’s pretty awesome that despite having a black AG and a black President, there still hasn’t been that all-important honest discussion about race that the left has been clamoring for.
The reason is because the left doesn’t want an honest discussion of race. What it wants is a gigantic, purple-headed cock driven by Al Sharpton rammed into the anus of every white American alive as payback for slavery, inequity of income, and racial discrimination of any and all kinds. It wants reparations and endless apologies and more and more wealth redistribution. It wants whitey to pay and wear sackcloth and ashes.
I am personally not willing to take responsibility for other people’s sins, whether they belong to Orval Faubus or a culture that glorifies death and violence toward women in its music and mores.
I take people one at a time when I meet them, the way Dr. King dreamt of. The social construct of race is something that has been used far too often as a bludgeon to club grievance into every issue under the sun. Electing a black president wasn’t enough. There won’t ever be enough to fill the void created by race hucksters like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and now Eric Holder.
That’s my honest discussion about race, and if Eric Holder wants to call me a coward, he’s free to do so. I know who I am.
More black whining. That’s all it is. People choose to be with their own kind for many reasons. I would not want others to be forced to spend time with me if they didn’t want to.
Obama has no character and no credibility. Neither does his attorney general. Being black – or half black – does not give one authority or make one an expert in race relations.
Whenever a black wants to have a “honest open discussion about racism” it means that black wants to talk and wants all others to listen. None for me no thank you boy.
We’ll have none of that white separatist bullshit on this website.
Plenty of people mix – that will happen naturally unless we allow the race hucksters to divide us back – whether it was full-on racism of the past or if it is now the PC crowd, they all want people divided by race (or class, whatever works) so as to control them. Most people by inclination do not care – they have to be taught to care.