so said the Attorney General to in a speech to Justice Dept. employees commemorating Black History month. The Attorney General is the top law enforcement officer in our country. You would think he would be smart enough to realize; A) private means PRIVATE and B) that he sounded like a reverse racist when he said America is a “Nation of Cowards” on race matters.
He said he was inspired to give this speech because of BO’s speech when he threw the Rev. under the bus next to Gramma. Did it ever occur to him that maybe the reason we are segregated in our private lives is we don’t want Jeremiah Wright’s philosophy in our homes and lives. Everyone raved about what a great speech BO made on March 18, 2008. And BO swore he could no more disown the Reverend Wright than he could his own grandmother. Six weeks later when the Reverend resurfaced at the National Press Club in Washington, BO pitched him under the bus. Why did he wait 6 weeks to renounce the Rev. and his “racist and divisive views?” He waited because he thought his mea culpa of March 18 had been swallowed and the issue was dead. But when polls started to show that the good Reverend’s rantings and ravings were starting to gore BO’s ox, on April 29, 2008 he jettisoned the Rev.
And the Attorney General has the temerity to call America a “Nation of Cowards?” His boss is a coward, who only took a FIRM stand on Reverend Wright’s brand of racism when it was in his boss’s best interest and not a moment before. The hypocrisy expressed at the top of the new administration has trickled down.
One final thought, when is Italian History Month, or Scottish History Month, or Anglo Saxon History Month?
Steve Maley
Neil Stevens
What is a reverse racist?
Beaglescout (Diary) Wednesday, February 18th at 9:11PM EST (link)I would think that a reverse racist would be “not a racist” but it turns out that what you mean by a reverse racist is simply a racist. Why is it that some people get a pass from being identified as racists, but Republicans never do? Could the former party of the KKK and Jim Crow laws have successfully fooled everyone into thinking they were actually the anti-slavery party, and the anti-slavery party was actually them?
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
Eric Holder
Crippy (Diary) Wednesday, February 18th at 9:28PM EST (link)is a coward. He didn’t have the guts to say that when in was in front of the senate.
Also, it is none of his, or anyone else’s, business who I hang out with on the weekends.
God help us!
-Crippy’s World
Private = Private
centrist46 (Diary) Wednesday, February 18th at 9:35PM EST (link)I think He is the only one who can anymore
Michael Schindel
Yep, I sure do self-segregate on the weekends and in my private life..........
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Wednesday, February 18th at 10:20PM EST (link)….with my friends and my family….. It;s funny that I never noticed that my friends are Black, Hispanic, Haitian, Jamaican, White, Asian…….. maybe I better start noticing, eh Mr. Holder ?
On the ‘cowards’ thing……. Mr. Holder, I offer you a scenario…………
Picture yourself alone and walking down K street
after taking a bunch of unmarked envelopes from a few anti-gun lobbyistsand all of a sudden, one of D.C.’s most astute citizens taps you on the shoulder. You turn around and face this stellar example of Democrat Party progress holding a knife and saying, “Hand over your wallet, or I’m gonna cut you.”What will you do ? Think quick, because you have about two seconds, maybe three tops.
Me thinkest thy personage would do one of two things……. Most probably, soil linen fastidiously and turn tail at full speed…… or……. you’d simply hand over thine wallet and beg of the chap (who’s lot in life is probably caused by the evil Bush) to not harm your most-important self.
The thought of possibly defending yourself never crossed your mind, correct ?
Funny to think this about you I know, but if you were licensed and trained with regular practice to safely handle and use a personal firearm and had that firearm concealed on your person, the situation would almost definitely have a remarkably different outcome, yes ?… and nothing whatsoever says you actually have to discharge that weapon either. The visual of the draw alone is enough to cause a perpetrator to hightail it, trailing a brown stripe.
But this is all moot, because you would never be walking alone in D.C. now, would you ?
Coward.
I mean seriously Mr. Holder...
DONTREADONME (Diary) Wednesday, February 18th at 10:21PM EST (link)why do you think us “white to embrace what’s right” people do not talk about race. Because you made us fear bringing it up out of fear of being called a racist. How did you get this job, seriously Mr. Holder, are you really that ignorant or have you lived to long in the high life? No matter what, some of us Americans do not talk race for we all fear the moniker of racist, sexist, bigot, racist, homophobe etc… Mr Holder, Americans and workers of your department do not have time to deal with your PC police antics and your racial grandstanding, besides Mr. Obama election, Condi, Thomas, Powell pretty much proved you’re mentally, politically and perceptially bankrupt. Arrrgghhhh.
The label "Racist"
dvdmsr (Diary) Wednesday, February 18th at 11:13PM EST (link)to me, is the equivalent to the N-word, and Frankly I am offended whenever someone of color call White folks such a horrible name. Considering the history of injustice behind their use of it, how can it be anything but off limits to them.
Personal Responsibility Conservative
Calling Whitey a Racist is ingrained behavior
hdbiker (Diary) Thursday, February 19th at 12:17AM EST (link)It comes from being a member of a protected class for so many years. Add to this the teachings of people like Jessie, Al, Wright and all the other race-baiting thugs in the democrat party, mix with a little Kool-Aid and Viola! Instant race victim who sees the racist boogey man behind every tree. The majority believe they are entitled to special favors and forgiveness simply because they are black. I know many Latinos who feel exactly the same way.
Now that they have a black President, law makers and Attorney – General, the culture of “You owe me because I’m special” will only multiply. It’s just that we’ve become so used to it that it barley registers on the radar anymore.
I despise those who use race as a crutch, because, in doing so, they’re admitting they have no other reasoned arguement to present. Will We never be forgiven for slavery – that none of us have ever had the slightest inclination to support?
For evil to succeed, good men need do nothing.
Evil can never be conquered by running from it.
Adopting an alien culture tends
Achance (Diary) Thursday, February 19th at 8:07AM EST (link)to limit your socialization to those who share that culture. De jure segregation only existed in the states of the former Confederacy. Even in the days of de jure segregation, Southern, rural whites and blacks shared essentially the same culture. In the cities and in the North, de facto segregation existed but mostly as a creature of economics and culture; migrating Southern blacks joined and displaced other immigrant groups at the bottom of the housing and and jobs ladder. But unlike other immigrant groups, large numbers have never left the bottom of the ladder, nor do they seem to make much effort to do so.
It has been sixty years since the desegregation of the military, 55 years since Brown v. The Board, and 45 years since the Civil Rights Act. Blacks vote in large numbers and many major cities are completely controlled by Blacks. In the Southern states, many local and county governments even in the rural areas are completely controlled by blacks. While schools tend to be predominantly one race or another, that is largely a matter of housing patterns. State and federal funding schemes have largely leveled the resource allocations between schools and school districts, so blacks have much the same educational opportunities as other citizens in the public schools. (Without getting into how bad that opportunity is for all students and why.)
So, what we find now a couple of generations past de jure segregation in America is a black culture that has segregated itself into the doughnut cities and a government centered and funded culture of sloth and corruption. If many people of other races, particularly the white race, which remains the dominant culture in America despite what the media tries to portray do not desire to associate with many blacks, it is because they range from uncomfortable to outright unpleasant to be around. Other than media crazed young people, most whites speak standard English, not Gangsta or Ebonics and don’t listen to, in fact can’t stand to hear, most Rap and Hip-Hop. Even educated, affluent Blacks continue the old segregation days notion of “passing” in white culture. While Obama and Holder are articulate, even eloquent in standard English, both show flashes of black patois in their off the cuff speech, and in Obama’s case, he would have had to have gone out of his way to learn it. And you know that cool, cultured moderate manner isn’t the way they behave and talk with their black friends when there are no honkies around.
I grew up in the Jim Crow South. While we didn’t share water fountains, waiting rooms, restaurants or schools and churches, blacks and whites shared a common culture and actually had a lot of easy social interaction. Today’s black culture has become so foreign and so uncomfortable to many whites that they simply don’t associate with blacks because there is so little that they have in common. While many of the themes and situations are common to all people, I just don’t know any people who think, act, and talk like the characters in the Tyler Perry shows – and those characters are largely middle-class with which I should have some things in common.
In Vino Veritas
Dick Gregory once said;
centrist46 (Diary) Thursday, February 19th at 11:10AM EST (link)“The difference between the North and South is, in the South they don’t care how close you get as long as you don’t get too ‘big.’ In the North they don’t care how ‘big’ you get as long as you don’t get too close.”
Pretty much nothing has changed even with Barrack in the WH. So why should Holder be surprised?
Michael Schindel
Not true anymore.
Achance (Diary) Thursday, February 19th at 11:29AM EST (link)Outside school and work, the South is just as segregated as the North these days. I guess the one real change in the South is that nobody cares how big you get anymore.
In Vino Veritas
Was listening to a talk-show host, Phil Valentine, the other afternoon when a black lady called in.
janis (Diary) Thursday, February 19th at 11:36AM EST (link)The subject was the remark made by Eric Holder. Valentine made the comment that black people could be racist, too, and this woman was astonished that he said so. She said it was ridiculous to make that statement because “blacks didn’t have the power to hold another race down.” Valentine asked for an explanation of that and she then went on to say that it takes money to hold another race down, the blacks didn’t have enough to do that, and therefore they couldn’t be racist.
Valentine said that was the single dumbest thing he’d ever heard. And if that is the way that a predominant number of black folks really think, I’d have to agree with him. I thought that racism was solely about judging someone just by the color of their skin. Given that the stats say that 94% of blacks voted for Obama–regardless of whether or not he represented their values–who are the racists here?
Stereotypes
centrist46 (Diary) Thursday, February 19th at 11:45AM EST (link)Thanks for posting that. It is interesting just what stereotypes or definitions people use to stereotype others really are. I had never heard racist defined that way.
Michael Schindel