Attorney General Eric Holder's "Nation Of Cowards" Remark

The Root reports on Eric Holder's speech to members of the Justice Department and the Attorney General's statement, "Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards." Dayo Olopade writes that Holder's statement "was a punch in the face to America. As top cop of the United States, it's his job to play the disciplinarian--but the lengthy admonition, given in honor of Black History Month, by the first African American attorney general, was the verbal equivalent of shock and awe."