Eric Holder Calls the United States a Nation of Cowards
Our new Attorney General gave a speech yesterday on race relations in the United States. According to this article he had something very interesting to say about Americans.
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
We are a nation of cowards. At least when it comes to race. He claims that while America is “largely integrated” we still “self-segregate” on the weekends. That makes us cowards evidently.
Let’s see; Barack Obama, Condi, Colin Power, Alberto Gonzalez, Eric Holder, Clarence Thomas, and the list of minorities who have achieved greatness in this country and in government goes on and on and yet we are cowards?
When will we ever reach the point in this country where a man is judged not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character? We can never reach that goal as long as we have people like Eric Holder who continue to see only the darkness and refuse to step into the light and realize that Americans are, to quote Barack Obama, a decent people?
People like Eric Holder just fan the flames on whatever racial prejudices still exist. I am not stupid, I understand that there is still racism out there but America has come a long way, I do believe that most Americans judge people by what is inside and not what is outside and I get offended when I hear this kind of bullshit.
The names listed above are just a portion of the proof that if you work hard you can achieve whatever goals you may have, regardless of your color.
Eric Holder would do well to remember that even as he was calling America a nation of cowards that 17,000 courageous Americans were just ordered by President Obama to go to Afghanistan to help protect Eric Holder’s right to say something as idiotic as he said yesterday.
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I think, hope, that he meant that we are cowards for not facing the Black community problems as the root cause for most of the complaints Blacks have, such as, “We’re only 16% of the population but 38% of state and federal prisoners are Black. That’s unfair!”
Whites and Blacks must stand together and face the truth about the Black communities failures, and trace them to the root cause of social welfare.
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So, I guess we are a nation of cowards and whiners?
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Personally I grew up with a variety of people and have a daughter whom is of mixed blood.
Eric Holder in my opinion was out of line ,by throwing the race card out there it turns off a lot of people,in some respectminorities get
a better shake than whites I see it all the time especially in the work place, example many bosses are afraid to repremand minority workers for they fear they may be called unfair,’and personally I was told straight up on a job interview I had much more experience
and background but they had to fill a quaota , in this case it was reverse and I was offended and
I did not get the job and my family went without. Personally I thing Mr Holder was a jerk. This country is just starting to mend and get adjusted to having a Black president it is a shock to many that donot believe in eqality.
There is a time and a place for everything, I am not disagreeing with his point ,it was the way he went about it .Show a little education and class, being diplomatic works far better than Mr Holders hard line approach he reminded me of dick chaney and Bush,you put people off like that .I am white and heard the comments .With mr Obama, people black and white like because he has class and a personna of warming up to the people .Mr Holder take a course in trying to work with people , take down the walls ,not put them back up! p.s You Mr Holder, and president Obama are 1/2 white look in the mirror. Like Dr King once said don’t judge me by the color of my skin but the content of my character, That is exactly the way I feel ,Lets Move on ,if anyone has a beef the Jewish people who lost over 6,000000 people would have , they have moved on, lets work together as a United country, Amen.
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As Attorney General, Eric Holder is not only a government official, but he represents the current administration. What he says publicly then can be taken as reflective of the administration’s views.
The white majority and the black minority have a long, awkward history in the US, and each person tries to get by and get along in their lives as best they can. There are historical and cultural reasons why blacks and whites don’t socialize more than they do off the job, and why whites prefer to live in all-white neighborhoods. Most people are getting along just fine in their private lives or are at least trying to carve out their own brand of personal happiness there. It’s none of Holder’s or the administration’s business what private citizens do in their private lives.
With all the real problems facing America and the world — tangible, identifiable, immediate problems — Why do we have the US Attorney General grabbing headlines for himself by using inflammatory words like “cowards” to discuss sensitive, personal issues such as how people spend their free time and where they choose to live? Does the Attorney General have so little to say of relevance to his own office? Is this sort of irrelevant nonsense what we can expect from the current administration?
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Speaking of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder:
Eric Holder is a racial-minority individual, and in his heart and mind he inevitably does not endorse hate crimes committed by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memories so they never got stale and faded.” Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
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