We have always been and we, I believe, continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards. Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.
Eric Holder discusses the reluctance of Americans to engage in conversations about race.
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I fear is that they will somehow overturn a vast number of cases that have found a way in which to say that affirmative action is appropriate.
Not on my watch would we see a retrenchment, to go back to the America that existed before the great work that Ambassador Young and all those great heroes, heroines did before me,’’
In this moment, steps must be taken to respond to the authoritarian measures being considered in certain states and now so brazenly taken in Texas.
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