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We Are Cowards

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FROM A READER

Published: February 28, 2009

Editor:

I was enraged when I read U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder had said we are a "nation of cowards" on race relations.

As a white male in my early 50s I was offended, but the more I thought about the comment I realized he is correct. White people are afraid to address issues of race and discrimination.

Here are issues I would like the attorney general or his representative to address.

If we are going to judge every man on the content of his character, not the color of his skin, why do we still have the NAACP? Why do we have all-black colleges and the United Negro College Fund? How can Congress have a Black Caucus? Black Entertainment Television?

If these segregated organizations were whites only, can you imagine the justifiable outrage?

In fact, we aren't the same nation we were in the 1950s and '60s. White America has wrapped its arms around Jordan and Woods, the same way it once did Palmer and Mantle.

Barack Obama would not be president without the white vote.

It's time for black leaders to lead.

I am not a Swedish-American, I'm an American.

Let's drop the term African-American and all be judged by our character, not our color.

Bob Fransen
New Port Richey

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