AG on race: America is a 'nation of cowards'

MSNBC | Feb. 20, 2009 (Speech)

[Video 16:21] Watch Attorney General Eric Holder's speech at a Department of Justice Black History month program. Full Story »

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Kristin Gorski
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 by Kristin Gorski - Feb. 22, 2009

Full of context and fact. AG Holder's use of the phrase "a nation of cowards" has been widely reported across the media without any additional context to frame it; doing so has done a great disservice to the thoughtfulness and insight in his visionary speech.

As I listened to the speech, I kept thinking how wonderfully full of history it was. Then at (12:28), Holder states that he was "a former American history major", and it shows. This reinforces what I strongly believe: if you want to know your future, you have to know the past -- it's so important to study history.

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