American voters elected their first black president last November, but to Attorney General Eric Holder, we are just as racially polarized as we’ve always been.
Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing awkward 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 I believe 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 honest discussion of racial matters, including issues of health care, education, and economic disparities.
Don’t talk enough with each other about race? Perhaps it would be a little easier if whites weren’t reflexively called “racist” by the civil rights industry and continually browbeaten with the sins of past generations. Remember Reverend Lowery’s admonition, “when white will enbrace what is right?”
Holder: US a nation of cowards on racial matters – Yahoo! News.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has picked up on this, too, and, as usual, offers an analysis that is even more brilliant than my own.
Funny. When I think of racial cowards, I think of Barack Obama at Jeremiah Wright’s church, sitting there week after week, year after year, saying nothing about the separatist demagoguery echoing from the pulpit to the pews.
When I think of racial cowards, I think of all the navel-gazers who fret about poisonous racial dialogue, but say nothing about “My President Is Black” bigotry.
When I think of racial cowards, I think of the people cowed by mau-mau-er Al Sharpton — now attacking the NYPost over a cartoon lampooning that crazy dead chimp.
When I think of racial cowards, I think of the folks who enable p.c. thugs to cry racism over “That One” and “Thug Thizzle” and “tricked out.”
Holder doesn’t want an honest dialogue about race. In the Age of Obama, “talking enough with each other about race” means the rest of us shutting up while being subjected to lectures about our insensitivity and insufficient integration on the weekends.
And let’s not forget that in the most recent presidential election, 4% of black voters voted for John McCain, while 44% of white voters voted for Barack Obama, meaning that white voters proved far more willing to cross racial lines in voting for president. And let’s also not forget how left-wing editorial cartoonists lampooned Condoleezza Rice a few years ago.
