Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 25, 2009

It?s likely that millions of Americans were surprised, puzzled, and offended when Eric Holder, the nation?s first black Attorney General, who was appointed to that post by the nation?s first black president, accused us of being ?a nation of cowards? because of an alleged reluctance to discuss matters of race.

For more than a generation, America has properly aspired to be a society in which individuals are assessed on the basis of character and achievement rather than skin color. Now Holder perversely insists that those priorities reflect some kind of deeply entrenched national character flaw. What really matters where racial progress is concerned, he insists, are words, rather than deeds.

To our nation?s credit, we have largely transcended our historic inter-ethnic conflicts. But this is certainly reversible if Holder and his ilk succeed in having Americans think of themselves as members of artificial racial collectives, rather than as individuals.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.