AG Holder says talk about race, so here goes

Attorney General Eric Holder says we need to talk about race more. I say we need to talk about lame politicians more. [Photo from US Gov.](Washington, D.C.)—The latest sound bite to come out of President Barack Obama’s administration is a condemnation of front line America. By front line I mean those of us who don’t belong to certain social classes:  the elitists in government, the academic elitists or select socialist leaning celebs all of whom love to tell us how we should live our lives. Attorney General Eric Holder is either clueless about real people or he was caught short on a topic for a speech during Black History Month—an anachronism the government and educators cannot let go of—and he settled on the tried and true Democratic Party theme of race. Is he on medication and maybe forgot to take it? We could forgive that.

Holder said we’re cowards because we don’t talk about race enough. I say if we talk about race much more we’re going to go even stupider in the collective political head than we are at present.

Holder said Americans still “self-segregate” on the weekends. I reckon he saw all those sermons by Jeremiah Wright. I’m not sure if a white person sitting through the sermons Obama apparently slept through would feel very welcome there.

Race is for the Democratic Party the surest trump card in the land. When the day comes when race doesn’t really matter, the entire party would be out of a job. So would Al Sharpton.

Holder is the AG, and he says we need to talk about race more.

But I’m just a regular citizen, so I say we need to talk about race less and we need to talk about holding people like Holder and other government “leaders” accountable. The word “leaders” is deliberately in quotes because there are very few real leaders in our governments—local, state and national—today. What we have are political entrepreneurs feeding at the public trough, seeking opportunity to grow their bank accounts. Many of them don’t even have to pay taxes and if they’re caught doing IRS dodge ball, they apologize and get off light.

I’d also like to invite Holder to a barbecue at my house. I’m serious. If he’ll give me a date he’s free, he can come on down here to Florida and meet my family and friends. He needs to do it on a weekend though, because that’s when he says we segregate.

Holder and his political brethren, if they lived as the rest of us do, would find a whole new world out there. While politicos were sleeping, the rest of us found a way to reach across the skin color divide and work through it.

When Holder was named Attorney General, I admit I was astounded that someone who put a blessing on the likes of Marc Rich could obtain an office like that.

Some might say giving in to a pardon for Rich was cowardly.

That pardon and other actions by our government—I count both political parties in that assessment—are what we should be talking about, all of us in every color human skin can manifest. Only when we stop falling for political pickup lines will we begin to hold elected officials accountable.

Holder showed an astounding lack of leadership and a tendency to be divisive.

I’m thinking that’s same-old-same-old—the exact opposite of all that change promised during the campaigns.