You're a bunch of cowards!

[Don Corleone]

So, despite assurances of 'representing all of America', the nation's first black Attorney General decided to go a different route than his boss... forgoing unity and reconciliation for some good old smackdown talk at whitey.

"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," Holder said.

So, even if you agree with the man's sentiments, do you think such statements are productive? Do they advance the national discussion on race and the movement of our society to a post-racial future? Or does it sound like AG Holder spends more time listening to Minister Jeremiah Wright than President Obama?

I've got it!!! I should have known it all along. Yahoo! News is simply part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, orchestrated by Rupert Murdoch. Like the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, U.S. News & World Report and other partisan rags, it's completely untrustworthy. I bet Karl Rove made the whole story up while on the can, then shopped it out to Yahoo. That's gotta be it...