In a rare interview covering a
wide array of topics, Attorney General Eric Holder said that he would
not back away from a controversial speech he gave in 2009 in which he
called the United States “a nation of cowards” on the topic of race.
“I wouldn’t walk away from that speech,” Holder told ABC News in an interview.
“I think we are still a nation that is too afraid to confront racial
issues,” he said, adding that Americans are still hesitant to reach out
to “one another across the color line [to] talk about racial issues.”
In Feb. 2009, in his first
speech after taking office, Holder told a crowd gathered at the Justice
Department to celebrate Black History Month, “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.”
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