I am spitting mad about attorney general Eric Holder’s comment that the US is “a nation of cowards” on matters of race, with most Americans openly avoiding discussions of racial issues.
The Americans I know don’t avoid discussion of racial issues; sounds like your problem. But alright, lets discuss racial issues. Below are comments from our attorney general that I will answer plainly.
ERIC HOLDER: …the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate in their private lives and on the weekends. Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards….Even when people mix at the workplace or after work social events, many Americans in their free time are still segregated inside ‘race-protected cocoons’ Saturdays and Sundays. America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.
MOM: You are an ass. The only truly sad thing is that you are our new attorney general. God help us! America is an ethnic melting pot, just look around. The race that refuses to ‘melt’ is blacks like you who refuse to blend and are constantly making disparaging, separatist statements. To say the workplace is largely integrated but that ‘Americans’ (just say ‘whites’-you can’t speak honestly and openly even when you are trying) separate themselves out on weekends is ridiculous. If you have good friends at work who are black, yellow, white or purple they will also be your friends on weekends. If they are ‘work friends’ or just ‘work associates’ you will have a separate set of friends out of work. Are people REQUIRED to have the same friends at home as at work? Just for the record, I’ve had black friends at work that I used to go out with after work. Some were good friends that came to my wedding. I never felt ‘obligated’ to socialize with them because they were black, they were just fun to hang out with and I didn’t spend time with them because they were black and I thought it might help race relations in our country………This has got to be the stupidest thing that I have ever heard.
ERIC HOLDER: “…..we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race….If we’re going to ever make progress, we’re going to have to have the guts, we have to have the determination, to be honest with each other. It also means we have to be able to accept criticism where that is justified.”
MOM: No, we talk too much about race. Your statement, if made honestly, is saying that your relationship with other races is dishonest and strained. (Really, I never would’ve figured that.) What does racial progress have to do with determination, honesty and accepting criticism where justified? Stop talking about race relations and just treat each other as people. Also, anytime constructive criticism is offered, it’s taken as a racial slur. Every bit of news between whites and blacks is taken as a racial slur against blacks, thanks to the slanted media.
Here is some justified constructive criticism: Stay in school and take education seriously. Marry each other before you have babies together and don’t keep having babies with everyone you sleep with. Stay married and raise your kids, give them a mother and a father. If you get divorced, don’t be a deadbeat Dad. Don’t do drugs-they cost money better spent on your families and destroy your life. Be responsible financially and emotionally.
For your information these are NOT a racial slurs. Take it in the spirit in which it was meant, something that has to happen before positive change will occur.
ERIC HOLDER: Urged people of all races to use Black History Month as a chance for honest discussion of racial matters, including issues of health care, education and economic disparities. “Race is an issue we have never been at ease with and, given our nation’s history, this is in some ways understandable… If we are to make progress in this area, we must feel comfortable enough with one another and tolerant enough of each other to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us.”
MOM: Racial matters do not divide us. What divides us is having blacks vs. all the other races constantly shoved down our throats. Take Black History Month. Do we have Yellow History Month or White History Month? What about Irish History Month? It is everyone in America against the blacks, according to you. Slavery was a terrible thing, no doubt. But it’s like being a screwed up person because your family was screwed up. It’s time to grow up and be who you are without justifying why things are wrong and blaming it on the past. Acknowledge your problems and start to fix them. Your ancestors would die of shame if they weren’t already dead. All they suffered at least got them out of Africa and gave their descendants the opportunity to live in and be a part of the development of the greatest country in the world where anything is possible. Would they ever have believed a black man would be president of the US? So, quit your whining and complaining, already.
My last comment to you Eric Holder, is that you should thank all of the ‘cowardly white racists’ who voted Barack Obama into the office of President so he could appoint you attorney general. Try to honor and respect your post and knock off the ridiculous, sour grapes comments that should be beneath you if you were an honest and honorable man.
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