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One can agree with the Attorney General on this issue, though I would say this is a very important subject which does not merely have social implications for African Americans in America (African Americans essentially live in their own world separate from other ethnic groups, and are disproportionate victims of crime and the American penal system).

However I believe the racial question has deep serious implications on how America relate to the rest of the world, especially in matters related to war and diplomacy, which have far reaching serious implications for the foreign nations involved compared to the type of racial issue challenges that African Americans might face within America.

America projects itself as a tolerant smiley liberal nation with equal opportunities for all (except during Bush's tenure) but I am afraid the reality for many in the Third World is quite different........and one can list the crimes that America commits in Third World nations in the name of "Democracy" "Justice" and other such elevated high faluten causes.......

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America is a nation of cowards: Attorney general

From Times of India.


WASHINGTON: The first black attorney general of the US, Eric Holder, has said the country despite advances essentially remains "a nation of cowards" on racial issues, with most Americans avoiding candid discussions on matters of race.

"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 in his speech at Justice Department on the occasion of Black History Month.

"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," he said.

"It is an issue that we have never been at ease with, and given our nation's history, this is in some ways understandable," he said.

The month of February is observed as Black History Month. Holder's comment immediately generated heated debate in the US media, specially the television news channels.

Holder said one cannot understand America without understanding the historical experience of black people in this nation. Simply put, to get to the heart of this country, one must examine its racial soul, he observed.