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Brown: Strong feedback after Holder comments

 
We got strong feedback from many of you after we showed you what Attorney General Eric Holder had to say about race in America yesterday. Holder struck a chord with some, but not everyone after calling us "a nation of cowards" for avoiding a real dialogue on the racial divide. (link)

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