Holder Opens the Door to Nuanced Dialog

No matter what your reaction was to last week's speech by US Attorney General Eric Holder one must admit that it has done one important thing that Holder surely hoped it would do. It has gotten America talking about race. This is important and healthy.

Holder has taken a page out of President Obama's book. That page says that with thoughtful leadership America is capable of tackling the big issues in thoughtful manner.

The left and right jumped on Holder's remarks about America's cowardice in discussing race. It was red meat for the extremes and gave them an opening for putting forward their own agenda's. For the rest of us, it has indeed spurred a useful dialog.

More important than these remarks - and equally important to the dialog about race - were the remarks that Holder made regarding Affirmative Action. Holder called for a healthy and nuanced discussion about affirmative action.

Tackling Affirmative Action may be Obama's "Nixon in China" moment. Moving toward a system that focuses on socio-economic based disadvantages rather than strict racial disadvantages. Whether such a discussion generated change or simply a healthy dialog, it would be another historic moment in an era that seems to have more than its share already.

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