Give Up the Racist Narrative: A Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder
Update on America’s White Cowards
From the Better Late than Never Department: More than two weeks ago, new Attorney General Eric Holder ripped into White Americans for their cowardice.
“Speaking to a Justice Department group observing Black History Month, the new AG 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:’ http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=847.
Two weeks is a long time to allow such an incendiary, racist remark to fester, yet fester away it did until Holder’s boss, President Barack Obama finally saw fit to comment on it. Considering the mild slap on the wrist administered by the boss, it may continue to fester until someone calls on Obama to elucidate his remarks.
The AG had gone on to say, “Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives,” but all Obama could muster up was, “I think it’s fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language.”
Asked if he agreed with Holder’s racial putdown, according to the International Herald Tribune, Obama ”hesitated for five seconds before responding” then said, “I’m not somebody who believes that constantly talking about race somehow solves racial tensions. I think what solves racial tensions is fixing the economy, putting people to work, making sure . . .” Yada, yada, yada: http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/08/america/08race.php
What language would you have used to express that sentiment, Mr. President? And why the long hesitation before responding to whether or not you agreed with Holder’s inflammatory slur? No teleprompter available? And why take two weeks to mull over the AG’s racially-charged words in the first place? If Joe Biden had said that Black people were pusillanimous would you have taken a fortnight to censure him and would you have been so timid in doing so?
That wimpy rebuke did nothing except send another signal that, as far as this administration is concerned, racism is a one-way street on which a Black Attorney General may speed along slandering Whites but Whites had better just shut up and move to the back of the bus.
(http://genelalor.com/)
