Tony Perkins Washington Update
Published: 02-20-09
Attorney General Eric Holder has made more headlines with one speech than most government officials make with a hundred. To a roomful of Justice Department staff Holder touched on the sensitive topic of racial reconciliation yesterday and ruffled many feathers in the process.
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot he said in things racial we have always been and continue to be in too many ways essentially a nation of cowards...
Today his remarks have been plastered on newspapers and become the subject du jour on the talk shows. Many people including conservatives have recoiled at Holders observation which ironically only seems to prove his point. Though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation we average Americans simply do not talk enough with each other about race.
I think the Attorney General is correct Americans have cowered to political correctness and as a result we avoid topics like race. The solution to racial reconciliation however is not to be found in a more aggressive Department of Justice but in a more aggressive church where we unite around ideals rooted not in skin color but in Jesus Christ.
As Bishop Harry Jackson and I write in Personal Faith Public Policy blacks should not work with whites or visa versa out of obligation to right past wrongs or to advance personal or political agendas. We should work together because were brothers and sisters in Christ and Hes called us to be unified around a biblical agenda that advances all of society.
Additional Resources
FOX News: Attorney Generals Remarks Ignite Debate Over Race Relations
