AG Calls Americans Cowards

The United States is "a nation of cowards" when it comes to race relations, the country's newly minted attorney general said today.

In remarks made during a speech to honor Black History Month, Eric Holder said the country remains "voluntarily socially segregated," making head-turning comments that could spark fierce dialogue and the ire of some conservatives.

"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe, continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," Holder said at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. "Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

"This is truly sad. Given all that we as a nation went through during the civil rights struggle, it is hard for me to accept that the result of those efforts was to create an America that is more prosperous, more positively race-conscious, and yet is voluntarily socially segregated." - ABC News

This coming from a man who didn't even have the guts to do the right thing when he was an Assistant during the Clinton White House. To call Americans Cowards could have a place, but racism is more alive not from White to Black but from Black to White.

It is true that for many many years the African American population was treated very poorly by this Country. That has been over for many many years. Most of us were not around or involved in that part of American History. We have grown up with all races being equal, yet we keep hearing how racist we are. If I didn't vote for Obama, I was racist. If I don't live in a evenly mixed neighborhood I am racist.

That is not racism. There is a group called the NAACP, What if there was a group called the NAAWP, would that be racist? There is the United Negro College Fund, what if there was the Caucasian College fund, would that be racist?

Too many times Racism is brought into an equation when it doesn't exist. The more that we talk about racism and make blanket accusations of racism, the more racism will exist.

This is America, all people are equal. Just because there is a person of one race pitted against a person of another race, does not make that racism. People can just have differences in opinions.