February 22, 2009 - 01:41 am
News Feed: Massachusetts

Recipe for Good Race Discussion: What Eric Holder Left Out

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As a facilitator of dialogues on race and ethnicity, I'd like to offer some comments in reaction to Ernie Boch, III's multi-topic post in which several posters expressed frustration and skepticism about trying to engage in "open discussion" or "unabashed candid discussion" with "honest opinions" on race.

Eric Holder did a great job of getting our attention - on that I think we can agree. Race is still a vast American challenge and he's right: we are cowards about discussing it. But we're afraid to talk about race for legitimate reasons. It's similar to how we are cowards about anything we think might be unpleasant because of past experience or what we've read or heard.

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