Racial Cowardice

On February 18th the nation's first black attorney general declared that America is a nation of cowards when it comes to matters of race. Link

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. - Eric Holder

That same day the New York Post publishes a cartoon that sparks crys of racism. Link

The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less than casual reference to this when in the cartoon they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill. - The Reverend Al Sharpton

A headline at The Huffington Post states: John Gibson Compares Eric Holder To Monkey With Bright Blue Scrotum.

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, they toss to John Gibson who complains that he can't get away with saying "bright blue scrotum" on the radio then follows that up by saying, "We were talking about Eric Holder today on the radio and his bright blue scrotum."

We soon discover that the Huffington Post's smear of Gibson uses a doctored video. Link

Racial cowards? I don't think so; I think many Americans have simply learned that no good can come from interacting with a perpetually, and sometimes professionally, aggrieved class of citizens.