Another upbraiding for “Nation of cowards” Holder
National conversation on race? Anytime you whining professional-victim jerks decide you’re ready for one, you cowards:
Is he nuts? Leave aside for a moment Holder’s purely decorative call for a “frank” conversation about race. The Clinton-era Conversation also purported to be frank, and we know what that meant: a one-sided litany of white injustices. Please raise your hand if you haven’t heard the following bromides about “the racial matters that continue to divide us” more times than you can count: Police stop and arrest blacks at disproportionate rates because of racism; blacks are disproportionately in prison because of racism; blacks are failing in school because of racist inequities in school funding; the black poverty rate is the highest in the country because of racism; blacks were given mortgages that they couldn’t afford because of racism. I will stop there.
Might as well, because the people who most need to hear it will, as usual, not be listening. Follows, a litany of crucial components any truly “frank” and useful conversation on race would encompass, all of which the race baiting conflict-mongers have less than no interest in discussing. The conclusion:
Are there irredeemable racists among Americans? To be sure. They come in all colors, and we should deplore all of them. But the issue of race in the United States is more complex than polite company is usually allowed to express. If Eric Holder wants to crank up our racial preoccupations even further, let him at least do so with a full airing of the facts.
There are, in fact, irredeemable racists all over the world, in many places much more egregious and hateful than here. That has always been true, and always be; it’s one of the more disagreeable aspects of human nature. And not all of them are Caucasian, either. But the deplorable antics of charlatans like Al Sharpton — and Eric Holder — do far more harm than good. People of good intention would do well to pay them no heed whatever, beyond well-deserved scorn and mockery.
Update! Francis gets the ball rolling. Like I said, anytime you’re ready, cowards.
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Are we cowards, or just law-abiding?
And look up what happened when Bill Cosby made a few comments about people who share his "race" identity.
Sometimes, they're one and the same.