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From CNN
Eric Holder may be book smart, but he's stupid in every other way.
In his first major speech since being confirmed, the nation’s first black attorney general told an overflow crowd celebrating Black History Month at the Justice Department the nation remains “voluntarily socially segregated.”
“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,” Holder declared.
Holder urged Americans of all races to use Black History Month as a time to have a forthright national conversation between blacks and whites to discuss aspects of race which are ignored because they are uncomfortable.
This guy is is out-of-line with this statement it just leaves me with a gaping jaw. Look, no one’s saying our prejudices have disappeared because we have an African-American in office. Everyone knows this is an imperfect country with imperfect citizens. When I was in high school, sure, alot of the black kids congregated in one side of the lunch hall together and whites interspersed elsewhere, but it was hardly a given. There were many “ethnically diverse” lunch partners. We even had several black and white couples. At home, my parents had black friends and, yes, they were invited to our parties. My wife and I are the same. Nothing is as concrete as this idiot is trying to make it.
It’s not that I take umbridge to the definition “coward.” Call me what you will. To be so tone-deaf after this country’s gone over a major hurdle racially gives me pause as to this guy’s qualifications for Attorney General.
We have a long way to go, but we’re finally on the right track. Nothing happens overnight. I intend to get into more detail about that on Tuesday.
