Atty. General Eric Holder Calls US a "Nation of Cowards".

I don't need to link any articles. Just google it and you will find it. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in a speech he presented to Justice Department employees to commemorate Black History month, stated:

"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,"

This man, an African American by heritage, is the beneficiary of more than 100 years of progress in this country to make our nation color-blind. The United States electorate historically elected a man with significant African American heritage to the highest office of this land. Persons of "color" are appointed or elected to high offices at all levels of government. Witness Governor Patterson of New York, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, former Chairman of the JCS Colin Powell, former Secretary of State Condy Rice, Senator Roland Burris (although that may be problematic in the near future).

If you look at many of the photographs of the civil-rights era (1950's and 1960's) you will see many persons of "non color", some actively supporting people like Dr. Martin Luther King or the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Make no mistake, there are racists living in our nation. In the same photos alluded to above, you will also see many persons of "non color" who are actively opposing the progress of racial equality in our land. These are fewer today than in 1950. CNN's Roland Martin pointed out that while our professional lives are pretty integrated, we as a people still tend to "self-segregate"ourselves on "Saturdays and Sundays". There are still inequities in our culture that need to be addressed.

But to call us "essentially a nation of cowards" is an insult to the hundreds of thousands of brave Americans of all colors who have struggled for, fought for, and in some cases died for the advances that we have made in race relations.