Holder on Race

Evidently, we're a nation of cowards. Michelle Malkin reports that Holder gave a speech today to Justice Dept employees and said this:

“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,” said Holder, nation’s first black attorney general.

So, we've elected the first black president, who appointed the first black Attorney General. Remind me how many European nations have done the equivalent?

Well, screw him and the horse he rode in on. He thinks we're cowards and I think that he probably never served a day of his life in the military. Never heard a shot fired in anger. Never done a lot of things that brave people do every day. Naw, he's an elite black lawyer. He's never had to put anything on the line. His entire career has probably been the result of over-anxious people applying the affirmative action plan. In short, he probably doesn't qualify for the position.

His wikipedia entry shows that he's only held appointed positions, never worked a day in his life. He's the classic black DC lawyer, working for the NAACP, then appointed to various government jobs. It does show that when he worked for Clinton he was instumental in getting pardons for sixteen terrorists:

Holder was also involved in Clinton's decision to reduce the sentences of 16 members of the Boricua Popular Army, an organization that has been categorized by the FBI as a terrorist organization. The clemency request was initially opposed in 1996 by U.S. Pardons Attorney Margaret Love. When Holder was elevated to Deputy Attorney General in 1997, he was asked to reexamine the issue by three members of Congress. In July 1999, Holder recommended clemency to President Clinton with a report from then U.S. Pardons Attorney Roger Adams that neither supported nor opposed clemency. A month later, the clemency was granted by Clinton. According to The Hartford Courant, the clemency was unusual because it was opposed by the FBI, the federal prosecutor and the victims. According to the newspaper, it was also unusual because, before the commutations, the Boricua Popular Army members were not required to repudiate their actions, and they were not asked to provide any information concerning the whereabouts of Victor Manuel Gerena, a co-conspirator and one of the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, or the millions of dollars stolen by the group in a 1983 robbery of Wells Fargo in West Hartford, Connecticut.[19]

He thinks I'm a coward. I think he's a jackass.