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Eric Holder's Counterproductive Race Speech
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Richard D. Kahlenberg,
The Century Foundation,
2/25/2009
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Attorney General Eric Holder's recent speech to Justice Department staff calling America "essentially a nation of cowards" for not talking more about race has unleashed a flurry of commentary, from Maureen Dowd, who said in a time of economic crisis, "we don't need a Jackson/Sharpton-style lecture on race," to Dayo Olopade, who said Holder's address was "better" than Barack Obama's race speech in Philadelphia during the campaign. I think Holder's speech was counterproductive, managing to provoke whites (like Dowd) without advancing the ball on racial justice. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.
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