Attorney General Eric Holder And Cowards

Slyram discusses Attorney General Eric Holder's statement yesterday that America is a “nation of cowards… on race”, which has caused an uproar. The black moderate Democratic blogger opines: "While the workplace is mostly integrated, Holder points out that we are 'self-segregated' on the weekends and in our private lives. Hold on Holder; Americans have a right to free association. Black colleges, churches and organizations will always exist as long as they are voluntarily. When I lived in D.C., we were proud that the city felt like a salad bowl rather than New York being a melting pot—the idea is that the ingredients blended together without losing their individual qualities. I was in the first integrated first-grade class in my town and I wonder if anyone wanted to know if the Black kids wanted to attend school with people who looked at them in a certain way. A properly funded 'separated but equal' school might have created a smoother transition (like in post-apartheid South Africa) because we weren’t crazy about going to school with them; we just needed better resources."

He continues his commentary: "Like President Obama big race relations speech last year, Attorney General Holder got us think about awkwardly diverse discussions. At the time of his speech, this moderate was in an interesting lunch conversation with some of Georgia['s] strongest conservatives—not a coward among us."