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2009-03-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-07 07:50|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 You know, I might be a touch paranoid, but I wonder of Derb isn't correct about it being a stunt to flush out fodder for discrimination lawsuit fodder...
Or it could just be another example of the Obama administrations breathtaking ineptitude, now that they are where the buck stops.

I know, I know - never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity, but still...

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2009-03-07 08:57|| http://www.celiahayes.com]">[http://www.celiahayes.com] 2009-03-07 08:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Holder threw down the card early. Barry and Michelle threw it down with plastic helos to evil former white colonialist Brown. We'll see more of it in days to come as the chrominium flies off the shiny objects that have been elevated to power.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-03-07 09:11|| 2009-03-07 09:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Holder should resign. If he doesn't he should be fired just like Ag Secretary Butz was during the Nixon administration for making "insensitive" remarks. Cowards? Excuse me? I'm insulted. I'm outraged. You wanna talk about cowards? Who's afraid to try to make it through life without Affirmative Action? Who's afraid to stand on their own two feet and make an honest assessment of their own lives and the lives of their fellow blacks in this country...to be responsible for their own lives and their own actions? Not me.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2009-03-07 13:02|| 2009-03-07 13:02|| Front Page Top

#4 A white South African made the same point to me several years ago: It was easier to talk about race in supposedly racist South Africa (this was still during Apartheid) than in the US.

I made the point that speaking frankly about race in America was a guaranteed career ending move, and could even be considered illegal (if that person had hire/fire authority).

As long as that's true we will never have an honest discussion of race in America.

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-03-07 14:35|| 2009-03-07 14:35|| Front Page Top

#5 I only discuss race with the denizens of the Union cemeteries at Gettysburg, Andersonville, etc. I haven't told them about the "Nation of Cowards" remark yet.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-03-07 16:58|| 2009-03-07 16:58|| Front Page Top

#6 AH9418 - if you get a chance listen to Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men's song "Andersonville". Excellent and haunting

/full disclosure: Dave's a fave of mine from Downey, CA.

Posted by Frank G 2009-03-07 17:57|| 2009-03-07 17:57|| Front Page Top

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