Holder: ‘I Still Think that We as a Nation Are Experts at Not Discussing Things Racial’

‘When we’re forced to do it, when something happens in Ferguson, when something happens in Charleston, we deal with it for as short of a period of time as we can and then we retreat to our racial cocoons’

Eric Holder: 'I Still Think That We as a Nation Are Experts at Not Discussing Things Racial' (CNS News)

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder recently reaffirmed his belief that America is "a nation of cowards" when it comes to discussing race.

While being interviewed at the Ford Foundation, Holder was asked by journalist Ari Berman: "You famously said, you said this in 2009, that we were a 'nation of cowards' when it came to discussing race. Do you still think that's true?"

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