Holder: “A nation of cowards”
AG Eric Holder says we’re a “nation of cowards” on race.
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.”
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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.
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Touche, Allahpundit:
…there’s an irony even more sublime here: Obama himself did everything he could to avoid race during the campaign — aside from the occasional insinuation that McCain’s a bigot — until the Wright uproar forced his hand. He could have used his platform to push the issue front and center but he decided he’d rather get elected. Holder owes his job to that, ahem, cowardice.
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Can’t wait to hear what Michael Savage has to say about this.
Excerpt from an album by the comedian/ pianist Tom Lehrer. The record was issued in 1965.
“Here’s a song about National Brotherhood Week.
Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks.
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.
But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clarke are dancing cheek to cheek.
It’s fun to eulogize
The people you despise,
As long as you don’t let ‘em in your school.”
There are other lyrics to this song. You can listen to it on You Tube.
It looks like Holder has a solution looking for a problem. I don’t have a time machine for the man. I can’t take him back to the 1860s, so he can free the slaves. I can’t take him back to the 1960s, so he can march for civil rights.
So what’s left? I know he’s not railing against affirmative action and government set asides. I doubt he’s complaining that colleges discriminate against minorities (well, they do if you’re Asian, but that’s not the issue here.) Is he talking reparations for slaves I never owned who are no longer alive based on inherited guilt from ancestors who weren’t here when there was slavery?
He’s right, that’s not a discussion I’ll be having. Maybe we can go back and find the military illegally paid me less than the minimum wage in the early 1970s. As long as we’re fixing history, why not? I can be a victim too.
Black POTUS, Black AG, Black Sec.of State…for eight years….Black chief of staff…on and on….
Where is the republican in Washington that will tell this guy to apologize to the American people.
Murtha, McLame, Schumer, insult after insult to us the taxpaying law abiding fools, and to the people that actually work and function in a diverse world, not their unicorn planet..skittles everywhere.
Holder does realize that the majority of this country is white and that we’ve just elected a black president, right? Does that sound cowardly?
Also, it’s comical that he namecalls and then bemoans a lack of respectfulness.
MTconservative, I hope you don’t get booted because you are right.
If the ONE doesn’t pay off my mortgage then he is racist.
Being in DC for over 40 years, I have found the most blacks don’t want a conversation on race. If a white deviates at all from the premise that the US is a deeply racist country and that most problems among blacks are due to whites, they slander the white as racist and storm off. This despite the fact that American blacks are the richest and freest blacks in the world and in human history. With the “civil rights” movement comprised of race-baiting poverty pimps and with the shakedown of white an extremely profitable business, don’t expect any honest discussion soon.
Holder is a sham.
On February 18th, 2009 at 3:32 pm, right_on said
(in a different thread) :
The only way we are “a nation of cowards on matters of race” is that we don’t hold black politicians to the same standard that we hold white politicians.
As far as the quote goes, he’s right. I work for ethnic reconciliation on nearly a daily basis (NOT based on color but based in humanity) and in general white people are scared to broach color issues BECAUSE of the activities of people like Al Sharpton, blacks keep hating whites (again I’m speaking not of ALL) because of the activities of people like Al Sharpton and the media which portrays few positives about blacks, and Europeans hate each other for all kinds of crazy reasons.
Like it or hate it it’s what I deal with constantly so if you don’t think it’s happening, you aren’t getting around.
I dare say that if we had achieved the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream, we wouldn’t even be thinking about or talking about race.
We would have a “color blind” society, where the only relevant thing to discuss about people is the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
Who’s Racist?
On February 18th, 2009 at 5:14 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:
I dare say that if we had achieved the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream, we wouldn’t even be thinking about or talking about race.
We would have a “color blind” society, where the only relevant thing to discuss about people is the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
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Sadly, the modern-day race hucksters can’t allow that to happen; they may have to work for a living if it did.
So. Mr. Holder. I’ve decided to take your message to heart (although if you’re going to call me a coward, you really ought to do it face to face).
Instead of sitting at the local coffee shop reading newspapers, maybe I’ll take in a High School Basketball
GameBrawl. Sounds like fun. Or maybe I’ll go down to the local Hip Hop club. I’m sure I’ll meet lots of nice, interesting people there.you know its funny, I’m mixed race, and my wife is an african lady..and we NEVER talk about race…
when you need to talk about race..you’re a racist…
As one coward to another I will hang with who I choose until they pry my cold dead fingers from them.
My best friend and brother-in-law is 3/4 African American, 1/4 Native American. We never talk about race either. Funny thing is, he’s more conservative than I am.
So what does he want to do, force ethnic and racial groups to socialize in their free time? We have a racially blended extended family, so I don’t have a fear of speaking about race to others. In fact my family has winced when I open my mouth.
When I was in the service, I ran with five black men, and several whites called me a n lover.
I can truthfully say without irony, “some of my best friends are black, Asian, Catholic, Swedish or Dutch.” This is America, and no one has the right to choose who we associate with in our private time.
On February 18th, 2009 at 5:25 pm, Southpaw said:
On February 18th, 2009 at 5:19 pm, right4life said:
you know its funny, I’m mixed race, and my wife is an african lady..and we NEVER talk about race…
when you need to talk about race..you’re a racist…
My best friend and brother-in-law is 3/4 African American, 1/4 Native American. We never talk about race either. Funny thing is, he’s more conservative than I am.
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My family is your basic white European/Native American mix; English, Irish, Native American . . . if you wanted me to focus on my “race” or my “heritage”, I’d have to spend a year deciding which one!
I was just glad to see that he said this while standing in front of the statue of the “Spirit of Justice”. I hope your children left the room now that Ashcroft’s $8000 drapery (Burqa) has been removed.
I don’t care he called me a ‘coward’–name calling is nothing new.
What bothers me is he thinks he can tell me what do do on weekends. How dare he?
eep; what to do…
30 pieces – so is my sister-in-law and my other sister is Asian. My family is a mini UN. And my nieces and nephews, they are…beautiful.
southcoast said: nothing of importance.
Do you know how long ashcroft has been gone?
2/3/2005 is when Ashcroft left office.
On February 18th, 2009 at 5:40 pm, sonofdy said:
southcoast said: nothing of importance.
Do you know how long ashcroft has been gone?
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I believe our friend was referring to the (debunked) report that Ashcroft ordered nude statues to be covered while he was in office. Why he would want to bring that up on this thread, ya got me.
Sorry had to drink some koolaid….how about this. If the ONE doesn’t pay off my mortgage then he is racist. Better?
Glad to hear it.
It just shines a light on the absurdity of Holder’s worldview. Frankly, he doesn’t know me and I prefer it that way.
Did the koolaide give you the ability to recognized sarcasm???
I would have to say… NO.
This perhaps should have also been posted under “Double Standards”, since it’s clear that Holder won’t catch anywhere near as much flak for this as Phil Gramm did for his (accurate) “nation of whiners” observation.
That’s better….what a tool….
I usually find points of agreement w/you, but I strongly disagree w/you here.
One of my Sister-in-law’s is an American of African extraction, a couple of years ago we found she had sickle-cell. As an (extended) family, I can tell you that we found talking abt race amongst ourselves of high importance!
BTW:
An interesting OT observation: none of their 5 children had been exposed to info about illnesses that had racial preferences. When I went to HS, (oh so long ago…), *everybody* knew sickle-cell only liked people of Middle Eastern, African, and Med. descent. For “racist” days, there was more frank talk about these (mostly) skindeep differences.
A credit to 50yrs of “Sensitivity”!
Oh my, I’m in a really foul mood… sorry…
Maybe Holder could force us to have backyard barbecue’s with racially diverse inner city youth…at least until they seize my home and give it away in the next “stimulus” package.
I’m not sure why….were you looking for a bone-marrow donor??
How dare you?? How the hell do you get off questioning my character, my neighbor’s character, my Dad’s character, my Country’s character?
Disagree with my politics, wonder about my philosophies, question my actions – but Mr. Holder when you call me a coward, you cross the line! How dare you?! It’s time for you to resign!!!
Go to H-d-double toothpicks, Dude.
We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg in terms of the bold race rhetoric about to come out of Washington.
Oops, h-e-double toothpicks! LOL.
Here is the next step. IF you aren’t cowards, then pay black folks now who came from black slave families before.
It will be a setup to approve reparations in a way that white folks think paying black folks means we as non-black folks are enlightened.
I’ll punch you in the mouth, Mr Holder…. how’s that for peace?
Yeah we’re all such cowards.
Now let’s see him walk around Harlem at midnight by himself in that nice suit…
How dare he question my patriotism!
This freaking SOB never wore a uniform for anything. Let me be in a room with him for 5 minutes.
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I have worked with many good Black people in my life. And I have lived through the Black people’s struggle for fair treatment and equal rights.
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The thing that always impressed me about the Black people is that they got ahead due to their courage and hard work and smarts–like the rest of the good Americans of all races and ethnic groups. The people (of all races and groups) that did not do well failed due to their poor work ethics, bitter feelings, and failure to use the educational opportunities America provides to all.
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The Reverend Doctor Martin King (God rest his soul) had a much better vision for us than the Black race hustlers do. He wanted us to see each other and to respect each other as equals and as individuals. He was the real deal.
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John Bibb
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Which I am truly thankkful for. He would not have measured up.
When you think about it here is the Attorney General of the United States, who is the chief defender of the law in the cuntry, essentially declaring us guilty until proven innocent.
This speaks volumes about the man’s fitness to hold the office he has.
When Mr. Holder comes and speaks to me at the “Mixed White American History Month” celebration I will take his words seriously.
I have friends of many races and backgrounds and I consider them just “friends”, not Whites, Asians, Blacks, Lations or anything else.
Yes, Mr Holder, we’ll have an honest conversation about race in America.
I guarantee that you won’t like what you hear. But it’s way beyond time that you did.
Well said sdillard.
All these people who have come out of the woodwork to call everyone racists can crawl back under the sanctimonious rocks from whence they came.
Racism exists on all sides. Institutionalized racism, however, HAS been addressed.
Seeing as how the Democrats are responsible for many institutionalized policies in this country, does Holder mean to say Democrats are racists?
No doubt there are all kinds of witty things that can be said in response to Mr. Holder’s comments but the main thing for me is that I just don’t care. Even if I thought weekend dialogues on race with random black people would accomplish something, I wouldn’t do it. I really have no interest in sitting down at lunch with black people while they rap about race. The goal is to render them impotent over my life (along with any of their enabling white liberal friends). No doubt many will consider that a racist sentiment. Guess what? Deal with it.
What a PUTZ! I am part of the great ethnic experiment that is conducted daily in America. I am of Western European origin and my wife is not.
I attend a church every Sunday that is very well integrated. Probably less than 65% of the members on any given Sunday are Americans of European descent.
I rarely ever think about my friends’ ethnicity. But, many of them are them are like me – married to people of different ethnic origins from themselves.
My days aren’t consumed with race. In fact, the only time it comes up is when I have to listen to leftist dolts like Mr. Holder tell me how “The Man” is oppressing everybody!
If the leftists weren’t consumed with race and hatred I suspect we would be a lot closer to Dr. King’s dream of America. But, the leftists just cannot stop judging people by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character!
Great. Another man from the “government” here to tell us how pathetic we are as a nation. Way to lead.
mike.musculus said: (#122)
You have my sympathies on the disease for your sister-in-law. I have seen the effects on friends from that.
I submit, however, that this is not the type of discussion on race that Mr. Holder nor right4life had in mind. I think you are closer to right4life here. In logic, at least, (as I wasn’t at the discussions) y’all’s discussion was primarily medical, and race or national origin is indeed a factor. You probably weren’t talking about alleged racial privileges and institutional preferences or whatever else Mr. Holder meant.
Backing into the general, I agree with Dr. King about paying attention to the content of the character, rather than the skin color. And I resent Mr. Holder’s demeaning me when a) he doesn’t know what I do in my non-work time, b) it’s none of his business so long as I follow the law, and c) he doesn’t know me.
There is no excuse to permit this kind of speech by this man in this position. I demand that….oh wait; never mind. There is nothing that can be done to stop the machine. Nothing.
I wish this brave Holder would fear the Islamofascists as he does about race relations in the United States. He is going down to Gitmo soon and find out what abuses were given to the cell mates down there. I wish he was brave enough to see what their intentions are but he is of the old school that if you are nice to the terrorists they will give up Islam and become lovers of peace.
618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, sounds pretty cowardly to me.
My GG Grandfather died and is buried at camp Douglas Chicago, was his death cowardly?
My relatives shot at each other in that war, was that cowardly too?
OY! I go read a book for a few hours and the Obamite Cabinet just can’t keep their Pie-Holes shut for a FEW MINUTES?
Where is Biden when you really need him?
BTW – I am a Jew-by-Choice. Heinz-57 white mutt-ette with a dash of Native American (Dad’s contribution.)
My boys’ dad is an East Indian genius who, alas, proved to be a better father than husband.
My eldest son married a Chinese/African American woman. My seven grandkids’ skin tones range from Vanilla Bean to Dark Mocha. A few are Cappuchino and Lattes.
And they are all geniuses, too.
Obama is a traitor and his cabinet is… there , I’ve said it…. prove me wrong.
And I bet they are the best looking grandkids anyone has ever seen, along with the genius gene of course!
I guess that I would talk about race if I cared about the topic. I don’t. I have more important things to think about, bills to pay, kids to get places to etc. Besides, a conversation by its very nature means two people exchanging ideas. The “talking about race” that I witness all the time is a minority whining, while a caucasion listens. Sorry, Holder, but since I’m not a politician; I don’t have to pretend to give a sh*t.
MNUSMCDavid , you’re fired up. I like it.
Keep it up Holder. We love being lectured by our employees.
We’re a nation RUN by cowards, is more like it, Holder.
OK, let’s talk. My president is halfrican-american and he picks idiots like you to lead us into change.
Do me a favor Mr. Holder. Come see me in person and call me a coward or even a race coward. I’ll show you your stomach via your intestinal tract. It won’t be hard because you have already inserted your head in the initial opening.
Multiculturalism: isn’t that the idea of some Marxist thinkers? Antonio Gramsci and Georg Lukacs come to mind, but they called it a different name: cultural Marxism. Here’s a good article summarizing this.
Is he trying to tell us we should be brave and accept government control?
Perhaps he was calling the Supreme Court chicken for not hearing cases about his bosses eligibility!
Maybe he is saying we should go ahead and let our children play along our southern border.
I’ve got it! He thinks we don’t have the stones to cheat on our taxes!
At any rate it fits the opinion of Obamas best chums- America sucks one way or another!
Now Mr. Holder show some courage, march on into Afghanistan and go arrest some Taliban, but don’t get too carried away and lose your head!
OK, so this guy believes he has identified a problem. He calls the problem “a nation of cowards on discussing race”. I guess he doesn’t include Al Sharpton in his list of ‘cowards’ because, though it’s always one-sided, Sharpton doesn’t seem to have a problem talking about it. Guess he doesn’t include Jesse Jackson in his list of ‘cowards’ because, again, though always one-sided, Jackson doesn’t seem to have a problem talking about it.
Since he can identify the ‘problem’, that must mean he can also identify a solution. So, let’s hear your solution.
I’d be willing to bet it’s not a Bill Cosby solution, because every problem in the black culture, as we have been told for the last 150+ years, is because of the whites. Blacks don’t cause any of their own cultural problems. They feel that they don’t need to look within and they don’t need to assimilate into the American culture, as did the Europeans or the Asians or any others.
It seems plain to see on the surface that one main problem with the black culture is, with a few exceptions, the obstinate defiance to resist assimilation.
And because they’re continually being told that they are, and are treated as such by the political left, they feel a need to create an alternate culture of held-down victims deserving of entitlements.
Witness the saying, “My president is black”, and the rising to the surface in the black communities of such haters as Jeremiah Wright. Even held up by them as someone to admire.
In the American culture such haters are ostracized to the fringe.
This is what really concerns me about Holder. And the fact that he believes the 2nd amendment only applies to a military force and has nothing to do with individual rights.
I am not looking forward to seeing how he handles prosecutions having to do with so-called hate crimes and/or challenges to the 2nd amendment.
O.K. Eric, try this. American blacks are the most weatlthy, powerful, privileged black people on the earth. How did they get that way? American whites made them that way. We whites have agreed to live a lie so that you and yours can feel better. The lie is ‘affirmative action’, which is a set of separate, low standards which you cannot fail to meet. For our trouble, you whine, whine, whine. Every one of our cities has danger zones where no white person can safely set foot for the risk of being assaulted, raped, or murdered by your ilk. Apart from music and athletics your tribe has given civilization nothing but trouble. Is that honest enough? Oh, would you just shut up and count your blessings?
Holder makes such a provocative statement merely to mask his own cowardice.
Eric Holder can kiss my a$$!! Now what? The socializing police will be out regulating how we live our lives? Screw these jerks.
A black president, black attorney general, we had a black sec of defense and so on and WE are cowards!?
The Dems are the cowards by CREATING division with this type of rhetoric. They also do this so they get votes by DIVIDING the country and any conservative is evil and racist.
The dividing line is probably between those of entitlement and constant anger, and those of individualism and capitalism. Seriously doubt color of skin has anything to do with it.
Perhaps Mr. Attorney General Eric Holder does not realize we would dislike him if he were White, Hispanic or Pacific Islander. The only Dialog the Grievance Industry wants is White Guilt, Reparations and more government.
So let us talk about it Mr. Attorney General Eric Holder: No, No and No.
Now call Jeremiah Wright and whine about it Mr. Attorney General Eric Holder. Free a few terrorist while you are at it.
My Hispanic neighbors go to great lengths to turn their back on me when I walk outside. They’ve never said hello, or even waved to us.
Mr Holder, please explain to me why it’s always whitey that has to extend his hand first?
A nation of cowards? I say Mr. Holder is the coward, and a racist to boot.
When will blacks like Mr. Holder start placing responsibility for the sorry state of many blacks in this nation where it belongs instead of blaming others?
Far too many blacks do not value education, they have children out of wedlock with no moral stigma attached, they are responsible for most of the crime even though they are less than one seventh of the population, and they have an entitlement mentality that expects others to give them things while they sit on their butts. I see this every day in Memphis, where blacks who are two-thirds of the population control every and all levels of government but still have a chip on their shoulders. There, how’s that for starting the discussion?
I would say also that the only reason Mr. Holder holds the position he does is because of the color of his skin, not the content of his character.
Big inner city uppities always see things in black and white. Reason #1762 why I moved to the middle of nowhere.
Another thing this whole race issue boils down to:
Shut up you conservatives, TheOne must re-make the Nation in his own image.
After I dig up his email, I’m going to invite Holder to my next dinner party – I’ll ask him to bring the arugula salad!
What’s new? Every liberal black politician is a race hustler. You won’t hear Michael Steele or Alan Keyes saying something that stupid.
Every ethnic group congregates within their own community. So what? That doesn’t make them racist. Also, doesn’t this idiot know that many blacks are racist too?
This guy is typical of the people the messiah has surrounded himself with. It’s only taken Obama one month to establish his administration with corruption and dishonesty. That must be a record.
And to further demonstrate it, almost every day there is another government teet sucker on the boob tube making a fool out of him/herself for all the world to see. I can only hope that these revelations will lead to his undoing.
Longbow-
Great to see another Memphian here at MM.
One of the points that has been aluded to is the black as victim mentality and say it goes even further than that in that Victimhood is an idenity comparable to one’s self racial, gender or religious identification. Any attempts to get people to stop feeling that they are victims is naive at best, and idoicy at its worse. It pays too well and it appears that no one wants to get off the gravy train.
I currently average 4-5 racial slurs a day at work from patients and their families and not once have I or my fellow co-workers for a mental health agency ever responded in kind. Whats disenheartening is to see my black co-workers not stand up and denounce the slurs coming from black America while they make execuses for it. These were the same co-workers who made execuses for wright and rev. lowery.
However; I will continue to denounce racial slurs from all ethnic groups, even if they come from members of my own and do so consistently and fairly.
In Memphis, last week on the Ben Ferguson show (WREC 600) he mentioned that there are over 300 qualified non-black applicants waiting for jobs at the Memphis Police Department and that HRO is refusing to hire them because they are trying to put more black officers on the street. Just imagine for one moment what would happen if there were the same number of qualified black applicants and that HRO wanted a choculate-free PD—there would be a mass protest led by sharpton, and et al and most importantly there would be a civil rights investigation that would rivial what occured in the 60’s and 70’s.
GSP
“This is Sparta!”