The Race Card

Eric Holder, the new United States Attorney General, said recently that we are "a nation of cowards" when it comes to racial matters.

Funny, I thought we had gotten past the race thing with the election of a black president, one with a very African sounding name no less. I guess some people haven't gotten past the race thing, or perhaps choose not to. Eric Holder seems to be one of those people.

Holder may be right to a certain extent though. Were I to criticize Holder, some might call me a racist. You see, I'm white, Holder is black, and there are still those in this, the 21st century, who think it inappropriate for a white to comment upon a black. So some white people might think twice about making an honest criticism for fear of being called a racist. But that means they are cautious, not cowardly.

As Maureen Dowd observed in the New York Times, "We need leaders to help us through our crises, not provide us with crude evaluations of our character. And we don’t need sermons from liberal virtuecrats, anymore than from conservative virtuecrats."

I hardly think America is a nation of cowards when it comes to any matter. I do think perhaps that politicians are behind the curve when it comes to most things, including race. The American public has moved forward, some politicians obviously have not.

I dislike a lot of things. I dislike a lot people too. I dislike some blacks, I dislike some whites, I dislike people from all the colors of the human spectrum. However, I'd like to think that when I judge people, and I do certainly judge people, I judge people not by skin color but by their actions and words. I can tell by your actions and words, Eric Holder, that you're one of those people I do not like.