New AG Holder: When it comes to race, America is a “nation of cowards”
posted at 4:00 pm on February 18, 2009 by Allahpundit
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So saith the first black Attorney General, appointed by the black president we cowardly Americans just elected — which, last time I checked, is one more than any European country’s ever elected — during a speech honoring America’s officially recognized Black History Month. The key bit comes about a minute in. There’s nothing shocking about this, unless it’s how pedestrian it is. It’s the same old nonsense about having an “honest” conversation on race, which typically means agreeing root and branch with the leftist position on any policy issue that touches that subject (e.g., illegal immigration) on penalty of being called a racist. The boss notes the irony of Holder uncorking this on a day when “civil rights leader” Al Sharpton is demagoging the hell out of the New York Post for an innocent cartoon, but there’s an irony even more sublime here: Obama himself did everything he could to avoid race during the campaign — aside from the occasional insinuation that McCain’s a bigot — until the Wright uproar forced his hand. He could have used his platform to push the issue front and center but he decided he’d rather get elected. Holder owes his job to that, ahem, cowardice.
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It takes a racist to draw a conclusion like Holder’s.
OmahaConservative on February 18, 2009 at 4:02 PM
I love that our current leadership tells us that the country is in a freefall, is a catastrophe, is a nation of cowards and needs to change. It makes me feel awesome.
lorien1973 on February 18, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Reparations.
We need to give them more free stuff.
A was unfair to B, so lets punish C to benefit D.
tommylotto on February 18, 2009 at 4:04 PM
I was suprised it took this long to call those Nascar drivers cowards for not finishing the big race in Daytona.
WashJeff on February 18, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Thou art not to question his patriotism.
subbottomfeeder on February 18, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Hope, ugh, I mean hypocrisy you can believe in.
logicman on February 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM
I suppose the huge numbers of causalities during the civil war were the most cowardly.
And besides, nothing lasts forever.
Speakup on February 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM
White people are not allowed to talk about race.
mchristian on February 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Um, Holder can kiss my arse.
Oink on February 18, 2009 at 4:06 PM
and we are going to make sure you people get all the diversity WE deserve, wheather you need it or not. We will give amnesty to all the illegals, welfare to all the oppressed blacks, none of whom can even remember slavery,and have been given everything on a silver platter, from jobs they dont qualify for, to mortgages they cant pay back,now our savior obama will pay for it all, on the backs of “whitey” because of shit that happened in the 1800’s.
welcome to the new age of reparations
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on February 18, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Which, I might add, is the shortest month of the year! Racists!
carbon_footprint on February 18, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Enough is enough! I just elected a black president and yet we are still racist. I am so over the race card.
ignorantapathy on February 18, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Another prophecy comes to pass!
If…
1. You criticize Obama
2. We don’t like you
You are a racist. End of discussion. Now let us eat our waffles.
RadioFreeUSA on February 18, 2009 at 4:07 PM
It’s FDR, the New Deal, fireside chats, and happy days all over again.
The one–and only–crisis in this country is a crisis of leadership. Anything beyond that is a mere problem.
BuckeyeSam on February 18, 2009 at 4:07 PM
What do you think Obama was doing in the Rev Wright’s church for 20 years?
tarpon on February 18, 2009 at 4:07 PM
lol.
Not so much hope……..but heavy on that changey part.
subbottomfeeder on February 18, 2009 at 4:07 PM
“A Nation of Cowards?” The implication being the “rest of us” are cowards?
Perhaps, Mr. Holder, you should take a look in the mirror, for goodness’ sake, to see who the real cowards over the past several decades have truly been.
coldwarrior on February 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Holder looks mostly white to me. He probably has ancestors who were slave holders.
MB4 on February 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Hey, isn’t there a little cuban boy that needs needs to be shipped back to The Land of Free Education and Healthcare, by gunpoint or something?
I’m olive-skinned. I guess that means I’m just a little bit racist and slightly cowardly.
IN YO FACE WHITE DEVILS!
robblefarian on February 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Betcha Holder doesn’t get nearly the salutation Gramm got when he called America “a nation of whiners.”
Ryan Gandy on February 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM
I’m sure he’s speaking for himself.
hawkdriver on February 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM
nothing like honoring martin luther king with a speech based on contempt.
rob verdi on February 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM
RAAAAAAACCCCCCIIIIIIIIIISSSSSTTTTTT!!!
CP on February 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Always trying to keep the white man down.
faraway on February 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM
I know I’m old and forgetful and *gasp* a conservative *gasp*, but I do recall quite a ruckuss during the primary over the use of a certain ‘c’ word by one of McCain’s advisors…
no doubt things will work out differently for this AG
gatorboy on February 18, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Unless they admit they’re racists at heart, all evil is their fault and blacks deserve every dollar, benefit of the doubt and reparation they feel they’re entitled to.
Rogue on February 18, 2009 at 4:10 PM
Cowards, huh? I guess he means people like George W. Bush, who appointed the world’s first black, female secretary of state?
UltimateBob on February 18, 2009 at 4:10 PM
So all those whites who voted for Dear Leader out of white guilt are racists? OK. Personally I vote for a politicians ideas, not the color of his skin.
And Ed, you forgot that the last two Sec. of State were black. And Powell was also chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
rbj on February 18, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Yes, indeed tommylotto! Remember during the inauguration when that preacher said “When white will do what is right”? That is exactly where we are going with this one. Electing a half-black man didn’t end racism in this country, it just gave those that depend on racism for a living a new avenue of approach to fatten their wallets.
“A Nation of Cowards”. Isn’t that inspiring…
Agent of the Cross on February 18, 2009 at 4:11 PM
This guy is a bastage.
VolMagic on February 18, 2009 at 4:11 PM
I’m white-skinned and brown-blooded, what does that make me? ;)
Rogue on February 18, 2009 at 4:11 PM
That’s the irony. The descendants of slave holders benefit from affirmative action and punish descendants of people who immigrated in the early 1900’s after the end of slavery. Go figure.
tommylotto on February 18, 2009 at 4:12 PM
just another typical black person*
* http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=obama+calls+grandmother+racist&aq=0&oq=obama+calls+grandm
gatorboy on February 18, 2009 at 4:12 PM
You RACIST!
right2bright on February 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
OK. Time for us to speak up about race! I’m fed up with all of the talk about white “racism,” when blacks voted almost unanimously on the basis of race!
I’m tired of hearing about how blacks can’t make it in this world, when every other race can.
I’m tired of them complaining about black on black crime, while they make it SOP to kill any “snitch” in the neighborhood.
I’m tired of blacks freeloading, like the ones who “never thought this day would come” when they didn’t have to worry about putting gas in their car, or paying their mortgage,” or the Maryland congresswoman who didn’t care that her state was broke, as long as Obama was the president.
I’m tired of hearing about how we need to spend more on schools in inner cities when the real problem is in the broken homes of lazy parents and lazy students.
I’m tired of people like a black neighbor I once had who yelled at my wife when I was out of town, that we were “racist,” because my kid told his kid he was “obnoxious.” Weeks later, when he was evicted for not paying his mortgage, a few neighbors helped move his furniture to a storage facility. Suddenly we looked around and he was gone. Turns out he went to eat lunch at McDonald’s while we moved his furniture.
I’m tired of “set asides” or minority participation rules for construction in black cities, that funnels loads of money into a few sham companies with white fronts, rampant with kick backs to black politicians.
I don’t think Holder, Obama, or many blacks would like a really, true discussion about race.
Star20 on February 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
A Nation of cowards”?
Well I guess you will just have to pardon me Mr. Holder.
Rocks on February 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Anyone remember reading last week(?) that some French judge said that the Jews had recieved enough compensation for the Holocaust? That was what…50 years ago? So why do blacks still deserve compensation for things that happened 200 years ago?
Rogue on February 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
As a bigoted white guy coward I guess I’m nervous now that there’s an olive skinned Dude in the thread. I’ll try to strike up a conversation. “Hey, er, my Man. Are you er, down with it?”
I do want to make the AG proud of me.
hawkdriver on February 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Cowards? Please. I think we’ve talked it to death. Why do the Democrats and blacks have to keep bringing it up all the time as an issue?
We have a black president. A black AG. We’ve had TWO black Sec. of state and a now a black leader of the RNC. When will it ever be enough?
JAM on February 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
For a generation, the white-collar liberals who now dominate the Democratic Party have shown a remarkable ability to dress up their own economic interests in the rhetoric of globalization and anti-racism while attacking the motives and assaulting the characters of Americans who are far less wealthy and privileged. They conveniently forget to pay taxes for their illegal-immigrant maids and nannies, and then they denounce fellow citizens who can’t afford servants as Nazi-like xenophobes for insisting that all immigrants, not just some, obey federal immigration laws. They use their status as alumni of elite universities to get their mediocre children admitted by means of legacy programs (class-based affirmative action), and then they blame racism when working-class and middle-class whites criticize race-based affirmative action. They benefit from a regulated national labor market that effectively restricts the number of lawyers, MBAs and teachers allowed to practice in the US, and then they altruistically offer to sacrifice the livelihoods of American factory workers to help out the Chinese poor and to put American farms out of business to help the African poor. They claim that by living in expensive doorman buildings in fashionable downtowns and using uneconomical, taxpayer-subsidized mass transit they are saving the planet from global warming, and then they criticize working-class Americans with a fraction of their incomes who can only afford to live in exurbs and shop at Sam’s Club as sprawl-creating slobs.
- Michael Lind
MB4 on February 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM
And this is the drivel we get from the Second most important law enforcement official in the nation? The President being the First most important law enforcement official.
We’re screwed.
coldwarrior on February 18, 2009 at 4:14 PM
Cowards, huh? I guess he means people like George W. Bush, who appointed the world’s first black, female secretary of state? – Bob
Yeah but Condi’s an Uncle Tom … eeerrrr … I mean … an Aunt Tilly? Aunt Jamimah, or whatever, so she doesn’t count!
Tony737 on February 18, 2009 at 4:16 PM
We already knew Holder was an idiot.
Now we know he’s a racist.
notagool on February 18, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Blah…. Ok I won’t talk about colors of peoples skin (not like that matters what color they are)
So how about I say something like…”Good Lord, can you believe this DipStick we elected and the rejects he put in as well?”
Yeah that works!
upinak on February 18, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Hawkdriver–no worries. My wife is neon white. Like, DAY-GLOW porcelain white. Which I guess makes her the all-powerful Goddess of Cowardice.
We’re cool.
Hehehe…
robblefarian on February 18, 2009 at 4:17 PM
So, you want to talk about race?
70, 60, 6 years, 4.
So some of the questions to these answers are:
What percent of black women have children but no husband?
What are the odds of ending up in jail?
The average age difference in an early death?
High School drop out rate?
right2bright on February 18, 2009 at 4:17 PM
What an embarrassing pile of crap this guy is. Hello Michael Steele? maybe its time to have a talk with your good friend Mr. Holder.
james23 on February 18, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Shouldn’t he go by “Eric X”?
Cicero43 on February 18, 2009 at 4:18 PM
The race card again, so soon? Give it a rest. As far as being called a coward by someone who aided in pardoning bonafide terrorists a few years back, this latest crowing about race “discussions” just pisses me off.
Ris4victory on February 18, 2009 at 4:18 PM
REPUBLICANS: FILIBUSTER THIS NOMINATION.
Edouard on February 18, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Obama’s making me long for Clinton’s AG strategy of not stopping till a woman is appointed… and for some reason Janet Reno passed that test.
Chuck Schick on February 18, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Obama acolytes lauded him for engaging the country in a converstation about race in his speech last March. But the only matter at issue at the time was his relationship with that lying, hateful, despicable pastor of his. Obama acolytes were all too happy to shift the discussion to America’s past sins and away from Obama and Wright. But I’ve never gotten over how he never explained his presence in that jerk’s church and dismissed it somehow by equating Wright with his grandmother.
Neither Obama nor Holder has the moral authority to take up the subject of race in this country.
BuckeyeSam on February 18, 2009 at 4:19 PM
He’s right. It was cowardly to elect an uproven, corrupt community organizer as President simply out of white guilt.
awake on February 18, 2009 at 4:19 PM
The cowards are the ones who have been running the school district for all these decades…the democrats.
While they are allowing the “non-education” of a valuable group of citizens.
Shame on them for allowing generations of low expectations, just to garner a few votes.
right2bright on February 18, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Hold your hand up if you believe we will still be hearing this crap 500 years from now?
Cool… All 300,000,000 of you can put them down, now.
Star20 on February 18, 2009 at 4:20 PM
What a racist speech. The first minute and a half is painful enough…
Aronne on February 18, 2009 at 4:20 PM
BTW- Im white and my girlfriend is black. So do I get a statue or something?
Chuck Schick on February 18, 2009 at 4:20 PM
Apparently , the Obama administration is in a meltdown.
the_nile on February 18, 2009 at 4:21 PM
You think that’s crazy? I voted for Alan Keyes only to find out it didn’t count because he’s not the right kind of black. I tried idolizing Justice Thomas, nope, waste of time apparently. I’m so confused, I can’t figure out how to not be racist! Could someone more enlightened tell me how I can fix my racism when it’s not even about race anymore?
/s
LastRick on February 18, 2009 at 4:21 PM
LMAOROF!!!
OmahaConservative on February 18, 2009 at 4:21 PM
One should sooner expect rivers to run backwards than for Al Sharpton to not demagogue.
Hinmahtooyahlatkek on February 18, 2009 at 4:22 PM
His appointment should be hanging by a thread after saying something like that, but I’ll guess it will get a pass, after he dances a jig around the comment. Everyone is spooked into silence in fear of being monkey piled on over saying anything about race.
Itchee Dryback on February 18, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Here we go. The radicals get power and start showing their “colors”.
marklmail on February 18, 2009 at 4:22 PM
OK, Holder, let’s discuss how racist the Democrat Party is.
on fire on February 18, 2009 at 4:22 PM
I have “Racial Fatigue” … Really tired of the discussion. I’m also desensitized and could care less if anyone calls me a racist – since simply being a Conservatism means you’re a racist these days. Oh also – I’m resigned to the fact that I’m a reich-winged Nazi – since I opposed the bailout and the porkulus plans.
Soooo … Where do we go from here?
/yawn
HondaV65 on February 18, 2009 at 4:23 PM
I can agree with that statement as it pertains to MSM.
B.Hussein Obama (his whole administration)is the #1 reason why they are more then cowards
christene on February 18, 2009 at 4:23 PM
2 things…
First, I think reparations are the absolute RIGHT thing to do! I think that we should find everyone in America who ever owned a slave, and make them pay! They, not their legacy, should pay 75% of their net worth to any slave that they owned, but not the legacy of the slave!
Second, the Republican party missed the boat BIG TIME! W should have resigned immediately following the election, making Cheney the president. Cheney should have appointed Condy as his Vice, and then HE should have stepped down! Thus the Republicans could have had the first Black AND first Female president!
fumpbump on February 18, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Black liberals look backwards. Black republicans look forward.
sherry on February 18, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Gee, I feel a Great National Malaise coming on…
oddball on February 18, 2009 at 4:24 PM
Holder is sooooo….. passe. He’s so J Jackson, Sharpton, et al. Such a leftover.
The fact that people don’t talk about race means that many are not obsessed with it and don’t really care.
As someone else said in an earlier post, Holder needs to look in the mirror (along with many others) to see who the racist is. Of course, race peddling is profitable and politically necessary for this ‘post racial’ administration.
Cody1991 on February 18, 2009 at 4:24 PM
The victimizing mindset must continue.
Reality be damned.
Daddy-O on February 18, 2009 at 4:24 PM
LOL!!!
Dritanian on February 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM
CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG???
fumpbump on February 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM
So our politically correct Attorney General charges that we are “essentially a nation of cowards”. It seems as though Mr. Holder was stung by fair critique of his vetting of the Marc Rich and Peurto Rican terrorist pardons.
Sure! This guy really wants to let non-black Americans freely speak their minds about fatherlessness among African Americans, or about black on white crime and black on Hispanic crime, never mind immorality and economic and social costs of affirmative action.
Mike OMalley on February 18, 2009 at 4:25 PM
When it comes to government, ours is full of asswipes. There we’re even.
ihasurnominashun on February 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
The politics of hate. Obama fails again.
Fletch54 on February 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Eric Holder could feel a black eyed pea under forty mattresses.
Cheshire Cat on February 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Note to Mr. Holder:
STFU
uncivilized on February 18, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Is it just me or has the Obama administration really become a downer?
Chuck Schick on February 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM
BTW: Let’s hope the Senate Republicans get a backbone if Obama nominates Holder to replace Stevens or Ginsburg when they retire during Obama’s first term.
One or two terms of Holder is one thing. Life or good behavior is an entirely different matter.
He should be subjected to every bit of nonsense that Bork and Thomas experienced. Of course, GOP Senators won’t need to resort to nonsense because there’s too much legitimate material.
I hate Holder.
BuckeyeSam on February 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM
He wants to do away with Harlem? Man, that’s cold.
a capella on February 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM
I think this is a good time for a documentary on “The Bell Curve.”
Star20 on February 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Nah. I’m seeing something very different. People are speaking up – nicely. They’re not challenging anyone, but the attitude has changed. INOW, the position is that, ‘Hey, y’all got what you wanted. Do the right thing. Show us your stuff.” It’s very interesting.
Cody1991 on February 18, 2009 at 4:28 PM
I call BS on the AG. He’d benefit from reading Juan Williams’ book Victimhood.
kregg on February 18, 2009 at 4:28 PM
America’s cowards have come home to roooooooooooooost!
bloggless on February 18, 2009 at 4:29 PM
What is this retard talking about? Is the Attorney General now the Racial Harmony General? All he is supposed to be doing is prosecuting criminals and terrorists.
Speedwagon82 on February 18, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Rush and Hannity he likes to bait
But if he had any wisdom to go down that road he would hesitate
As Obama’s snake oil starts to be seen through
He will add to his bag of tricks some more venom too
If scarin’ folks dont do the trick
His health care system will make you all sick
With Harry and Nancy he likes to whore
Wont be forever till more and more know the score
Neville Chamberlain he would never emulate
As he thinks that he thought too small and gave too little too late
When it comes to preaching hate
The Obama team just can’t wait
If this rhyme seems disjoint
That it takes doing that to adequately describe Obama’s nature may be yet another point
MB4 on February 18, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Slavery ended in 1865. The civil rights act was passed in the 60’s. Grow up, and get over your self pitying whinefest. If any black, brown, yellow, red, or white person can’t make it in this country you are a loser. Face it.
Kuffar on February 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM
When I get to the point that I give any credibility to a crook and bigot like Holder, I’ll shoot myself.
Vashta.Nerada on February 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Any bets on whether or not hate crime prosecutions increase drastically?
fumpbump on February 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM
RACIST!
theotherKate on February 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM
“What is this retard talking about? Is the Attorney General now the Racial Harmony General? All he is supposed to be doing is prosecuting criminals and terrorists.
Speedwagon82 on February 18, 2009 at 4:30 PM”
I see a lot of arrests for “driving while white” in our future.
Star20 on February 18, 2009 at 4:31 PM
Oh I don’t think we want to ask Europe about racism:
The Blame Game
jusgottabeme on February 18, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Chris Rock attempted an honest conversation about race. Click here.
manwithblackhat on February 18, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Suddenly racial profiling will be an acceptable law enforcement tool!
fumpbump on February 18, 2009 at 4:33 PM
I believe the legal term for Holder’s insult of the nation is “fighting words.”
Pretty soon, someone’s going to get mighty fed up with being trashed by this Administration.
Maybe that’s what they want.
CK MacLeod on February 18, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Best said by MM
Entelechy on February 18, 2009 at 4:33 PM
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