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| The Conversation Holder Doesn't Really Want |
| 2013-07-19 |
| Eric Holder dismissed America as a "nation of cowards" because we wouldn't, he argued, have a "national conversation" about race. It's a slander wrapped in a farce. We talk of race unremittingly. That's the farce. The slander is hydra-headed. No honest conversation about race is possible when accusations of racism replace reasoned arguments. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, who mentioned high rates of crime among black males, was rewarded with the racist label within minutes by some of those (The Atlantic, Slate) who presumably agree with Holder that we are too timid when discussing race. Many American liberals are achingly nostalgic for old-fashioned racism. It offered them a helium high of moral superiority. It was deserved ... in 1967. But by perpetuating the fiction that modern America has not changed, they've become more than ridiculous, more even than grossly unjust, they've become dangerous. Look around you. The violence and bitterness that have followed the Zimmerman verdict were virtually ordered up by convicted slanderer Al Sharpton and his many imitators. The Zimmerman case was complicated. Any fair-minded person could see that it was difficult to conclude that Zimmerman was not acting in self-defense (however unwise his initial actions may have been). But the racial-grievance industrial complex doesn't permit complexity. Racial enmity is their living. Stirring feelings of victimization and injustice among blacks and, to a lesser extent, among other designated minorities is their delight. |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #4 I could be wrong but I do remember seeing White Hispanic on census forms. I think it was intended to seperate out more European hispanics (who make up the elite of Mexico) from those decended from native-americans (who are poor and crossing the border). |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-07-19 14:35 |
| #3 There are at least two conversations which the regime does not want; Benghazi and F&F. Interestingly, both involve weapons. Ironically, the conversations the regime actually DOES want, also involve weapons; yours and mine. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-07-19 12:45 |
| #2 A hispanic killed a black, so blacks go out and lash out at whites. The MSM has done their level best to incite race hatred throughout this entire event. Beginning with the "White Hispanic" term. Where the hell did they even get that one? That was a new one on me. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2013-07-19 10:42 |
| #1 Another conversation Holder doesn't want is about "Fast & Furious". If one of those guns had been used by Zimmerman on Trayvon, there would have been no story and no trial. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-07-19 10:41 |