By Jack Brummet, Publisher
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor
This week, 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 we just watched, he explained there were two Americas. One in the workplace, and another one on weekends. . .where the various races largely slip back into their ethnocentric cocoon, with each ethnic group largely separated.
In a speech to Justice Department employees during i Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is 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.
Holder said, but "we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race." We don't know who he hangs out with, but that is flat wrong. At least in the circles we run with, it is discussed often. And then, what could the AG possible know about average Americans? As it turns out, not much.
"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."
Attorney General Holder, as Dante asked in Grandma's Boy, "Where do you get your weed?"
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