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danberkeley
02-18-2009, 11:51 AM
Holder: US is nation of cowards on racial matters
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writer – 24 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing unresolved 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 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 frank talk about racial matters.

"It is an issue we have never been at ease with and, given our nation's history, this is in some ways understandable," Holder said. "If we are to make progress in this area, we must feel comfortable enough with one another and tolerant enough of each other to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us."

He told Justice Department employees they have a special responsibility to advance racial understanding.

TonySutton
02-18-2009, 11:56 AM
I hope he expects that door to swing both ways...

acptulsa
02-18-2009, 11:59 AM
The ethnic don't all seem to be cowards. Some of them use it for passive-agressive behavior quite boldly.

danberkeley
02-18-2009, 12:03 PM
Btw, who the fuck is Eric Holder? This idiot fails to realize that a black man (in reality, half black and half white guy nicknamed Barry) was elected president. He can't use the race card anymore. Then again, non sequiturs abound with politicians.

brandon
02-18-2009, 12:03 PM
I can see the legislation now...

Affirmative action for the individual. Everytime you socialize with 2 white you are required to socialize with 1 black person and 1 person of "other" race before you are lawfully allowed to engage in more interactions with whites.

brandon
02-18-2009, 12:04 PM
Last two girlfriends white?

Well, you won't be legally dating any more white girls until you try some of the other colors.

And besides, there's a limited supply of white girls. It would be racist to use white privilege to monopolize all the white woman, denying blacks and mexicans equal access.

danberkeley
02-18-2009, 12:07 PM
I can see the legislation now...

Affirmative action for the individual. Everytime you socialize with 2 white you are required to socialize with 1 black person and 1 person of "other" race before you are lawfully allowed to engage in more interactions with whites.

Marriage too: You will have to marry a person who is 14% black, 60% white, 18% non-white hispanic, 3% Joo, 0.05% Native American, and 5% decline to state. :D
Birth too: You will have to give birth to proportionate amount of asian babies.

FrankRep
02-22-2009, 08:01 AM
Eric Holder: Race Agitate or You’re a “Coward”


Thomas R. Eddlem | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
22 February 2009


U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says that Americans are not part of the “land of the free and the home of the brave” but instead a “nation of cowards” when it comes to race. In a February 18 speech to Department of Justice (DOJ) employees (http:// http//www.justice.gov/ag/speeches/2009/ag-speech-090218.html), he said: "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. Though race related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race."

Why do we need to talk more about race, if race only means skin color? (And it does.)

Holder even admitted in that speech that racial discrimination in America is almost dead. “As a nation we have done a pretty good job in melding the races in the workplace,” he told DOJ employees on the occasion of black history month. “We work with one another, lunch together and, when the event is at the workplace during work hours or shortly thereafter, we socialize with one another fairly well, irrespective of race.”

That doesn’t sound like cowardice to any rational person. It sounds like harmony. So what’s the big deal, then? What’s with the “nation of cowards” remark?

The civil rights movement to radicals like Holder had little to do with ending discrimination and a lot more to do with using race-baiting as a means of centralizing political power. That explains how Holder can tell DOJ employees that the current racial harmony is nothing more than a “polite, restrained mixing that now passes as meaningful interaction but that accomplishes little.”

Accomplishes “little”?

Yep, that pretty much sums up Holder’s view of the civil rights movement. It accomplished little, Holder says, unless we agitate for a “very legitimate debate about the question of affirmative action.” We’re “cowards,” Holder says, because most Americans are content with equality under the law and racial harmony. And he called on DOJ employees to use "the artificial device that is Black History month [that] is a perfect vehicle for the beginnings of such a dialogue" to agitate on race.

The hook on which Holder hangs his racial agitation agenda is the fact that most people — black and white — still choose to live in neighborhoods where the mean skin pigmentation is similar to their own. He says of the civil rights movement in the 1960s that “it is hard for me to accept that the result of those efforts was to create an America that is more prosperous, more positively race conscious and yet is voluntarily socially segregated.”

Holder gins up the agitators with the assumption that it’s necessarily discriminatory for African-Americans to decide to live in a community that is majority African-American (and for whites to do the same).

The publicly stated purpose of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s was for African-Americans to be able to eat, work, and live wherever they wanted for whatever reason they wanted. They wanted freedom and equality under the law. But not everyone involved with the civil rights movement supported these goals. Manning Johnson was a participant in the civil rights movement as well as a 10-year member of the Communist Party, USA, which attempted to exploit and misdirect the civil rights movement as a means of agitating and dividing the American people. Johnson, an African-American, broke with the Communist Party and its agitation and noted that the goal of Moscow was to divide on the basis of race as a means of seizing political power.

Johnson stressed in his classic book on civil rights, Color, Communism and Common Sense (http://jtl.org/Veritas/CCCS/CCCS_4.html), that having people of a certain ethnic group settle together is not necessarily racist:


Some people describe New York City as a "melting pot." At best, this is only wishful thinking. The numerous racial and national groups are as easily identified today as ever. The geographical areas where each group settled or resettled remains. Thus, there are in New York German sections, Italian sections, Irish sections, Jewish sections, Puerto Rican sections, Chinese sections, Negro sections, etc. In short, there may be found as many sections as there are national groups or races. National, social, cultural, linguistic, religious and other common factors effect this sectional cleavage. Parades and gala affairs in national costumes are not uncommon. The same may be said of every part of our country. Though these national, racial and religious differences divide them like five fingers on the hand, yet they are one solid fist as Americans…. Negroes band together in sections like other races and national groups much for the same reasons. Like other racial and national groups, they can buy land, build communities, settle in any section of the country. Like other racial and national groups, they can make their sections as nice and attractive as possible. The maximum business, cultural, sanitary and social services are within their reach as with other groups.

The Communists, through propaganda, have sold a number of Negro intellectuals the idea that the Negro section is a ghetto; that white Americans created it, set its geographical boundaries; that it is the product of race hate and the inhumanity of white Americans. Therefore, it is a struggle of Negro against “white oppressors” for emancipation.

Naturally, those holding such views have no community pride, no interest in doing anything to improve its services because that would be aiding and abetting ‘segregation’ and maintenance of the ‘ghetto.’”

The view expressed by Holder represents the latest "seedy undercurrent" of this distorted view of civil rights, which has nothing to do with true freedom equality under the law. His agitation would lead to less racial harmony, more excuses for individuals of all racial groups not to improve their neighborhoods and personal lives, and a much more powerful government.


SOURCE:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/817

jkr
02-22-2009, 09:37 AM
I love black people!!!!!

johnrocks
02-22-2009, 09:52 AM
Talk like that don't make this "Honky" want to open up.

Cowlesy
02-22-2009, 10:04 AM
Pat Buchanan and Eric Dyson had a bit of a spat about Attorney General Holder's remarks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv2zBnWKm40

Warrior_of_Freedom
02-22-2009, 03:25 PM
The term Black itself is racist, so that is epic fail. Think about it, there are many races of people from regions where their skin is very dark, yet they are called black? Just like calling light skinned people from Europe White, there are many different races of European people and they killed eachother, I don't think they appreciate just being grouped on the shade of their skin. 'Black' history month is the most racist event every year in my opinion and should be ended immediately.

BenIsForRon
02-22-2009, 03:27 PM
'Black' history month is the most racist event every year in my opinion

Dude... you're blowing my mind.