Friday Quotee of the Day: Eric Holder

"This is our time. This is our time." -- Eric Holder, attorney general of the United States, in reported remarks following his re-swearing in ceremony at the Justice Dept. Complete text of his remarks as prepared for delivery here.

President Barack Obama was also there and also spoke. His prepared remarks are available here.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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[Pom Pom Girl]

Atty. Gen. Holder Is The Coward

Attorney General Eric Holder declared that the United States is a nation of cowards on matters of race. He was commenting on our countries history as an actual ethnic melting pot when he qualified as to the racial aspect of the melting pot.
Comments like these are not helpful especially when he knows his own position and race protects him when he calls Caucasians and others cowards on the issue of race. He knows full well that the ongoing dialect in this country is overwhelmingly one sided, with the one being asked to be responsible for the sins of the father, going back generations and the other held unaccountable for anything they currently say. His knowing this makes his very comments cowardly.

Mr. Holders comments should be rejected far more forcefully than the carefully chosen words President Obama used to provide his appointee with cover. Congress should attempt to remove or at least censor/reprimand Mr. Holder for his statements. As Attorney General it is not his place to use his position as a bully pulpit but to enforce the law.

Coming from Detroit, I think Mr. Holder should listen to a few of the City council meetings to see the sort of bile he is encouraging when people use the cover of being an oppressed race to get away with the very thing they claim to want to change.