John Kinsellagh
The Examiner
February 21, 2009
In a speech he gave for Black History Month, Attorney General Eric Holder called America a nation of cowards when it comes to discussing racial matters in a frank manner. In light of the fact that many white voters were instrumental in helping to elect the nation’s first African-American president, I can’t think of a more incongruous speech nor a more inopportune time for making such comments, ironically, coming out of the mouth of the nation’s first African-American Attorney General.
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Instead of celebrating the election of Barack Obama as a historical milestone in the nation’s history, Holder characterizes his ascension to the presidency as dealing, “with the reality of electing an African American as our President for the first time.” An odd choice of words. Could he not have simply acknowledged the significance of this achievement to the effect that discrimination against blacks has been markedly reduced?
Probably not, and here’s why: Holder is a member of that liberal constituency group that I would characterize as “the perpetually aggrieved.” No matter the extent of the progress America has made in eradicating the past sins of racism or discrimination, any such efforts will always be deemed incomplete, demonstrating the need for further erosion of our liberties to satisfy their undefined standards of perfection. For those like Holder, discrimination that occurred in the past will always be sufficient justification for remedial action to be administered by the heavy hand of government in the present and eternally into the future. Exactly what conditions would satisfy Holder to the effect that we are no longer a racist country? He doesn’t say.
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