article.nationalreview.com - 2/20/2009
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Holder is wrong. America talks about race incessantly.
huffingtonpost.com - 2/20/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
At the end of a long and pointless
conversation between two Fox News reporters covering a zoo...
escape, John Gibson compared Attorney General Eric Holder to a monkey. A monkey escaped from the Woodland park Zoo in Seattle and despite the fact that ...
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John Gibson Compares Eric Holder To Monkey With Bright ...
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abcnews.go.com - 2/19/2009
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abcnews.go.com —
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 ...
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Stinging Remarks on Race From Attorney General
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Nation of Cowards, Cont'd
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] From my column today: Hey, black folks, do you know any white folks? Good. O.K., I want you to go up to them right now and, as politely as you can, start sharing your most deeply held racial views. Hey, white folks, you re not off the hook. I want you to go and do likewise with any black people you know. Don t want to do that? Really? Well, then, you re a coward. That s the short version of Attorney General Eric Holder s speech this week celebrating Black History Month. ...
'Nation of cowards' my ass
Hyscience —
Where in the hell does Holder come off saying we are "a nation of cowards" because we're unwilling to discuss race to his satisfaction when he is the first black attorney general, appointed by the first black president of the United States?
Not very far, because he's dead wrong. ...
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Daimnation! —
... Jonah Goldberg: "Usually, when I hear a liberal call for a national conversation on race, I translate it as: 'People who disagree with me need to be instructed why they are wrong.'" ...
Weekend Opinionator: A Nation of Cowards, Stimulus-Wielding Chimps and Hip-Hop Republicans
Opinionator —
... nation as a whole. He’s right about that. All too much of the teaching of history in this country has become subservient to politically correct notions about race and gender and even sexual preference. However the answer to this segregation is not more “affirmative action,” but the sort of race-blind policies that Holder has done everything in his power to not merely oppose but to delegitimize. Others on the right took less issue with Holder’s assessment of racial polarity than with his prescription of more talk therapy. Here’s Jonah Goldberg at NRO: The first thing worth ...
'Hey, black folks, do you know any white folks? Good...'
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I'm a little late with this Jonah Goldberg gem:
Americans are very good at hearing ideological appeals, but we’re almost tone-deaf when it comes to clichés. That’s why
liberals hide so much of their agenda inside them. Say “diversity makes us stronger” a billion times and you’ll come to
believe it uncritically, too.
Usually, when I hear a liberal call for a national conversation on race, I translate it as: “People who disagree with me
need to be instructed why they are ...
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Eric Holder says that we are a “nation of cowards,” when it comes to talking about race.
And, you know, he’s right.
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Brown: Strong feedback after Holder comments —
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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 ...
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