Civil Rights Leader Niger Innis: Eric Holder is the Real ‘COWARD’ of Race Relations

In 2009, Obama Attorney General Eric Holder, the first sitting attorney general in U.S. history to be held in contempt of Congress, said that America is a “nation of cowards” when it comes to discussing race relations. 
“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,” Holder said in February, 2009, his first speech after taking office. 

It wasn’t just a slip of the tongue. In July of this year, the nation’s first black Attorney General stood by his smear, telling ABC News in an interview, “I wouldn’t walk away from that speech,” he said about his 2009 speech where he called Americans cowards. “I think we are still a nation that is too afraid to confront racial issues.” 

Appearing on Sean Hannity’s FOX News special, Firestorm in Ferguson,  last night, civil rights leader and Executive Director of TheTeaParty.net  Niger Innis told a panel that included Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., that when it comes to race relations, it’s Eric Holder who’s the real coward. 

Hannity pointed out that in Ferguson, MO, there were almost immediate rally chants, led by the New Black Panthers, shouting, “The only good cop is a dead cop,” and “Who do we want? Darren Wilson [police officer]. How do we want him? Dead!” 

“Vengeance is not justice,” Dr. Alveda King interjected. that we have to “K-N-O-W peace,” and “K-N-O-W justice,” rather than jumping to conclusions about who’s guilty before the facts are in. “We need the facts,” she told Hannity. 

Niger Innis, who also serves as the National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality   (CORE), agreed with Dr. King, telling Hannity that thorough investigation must be conducted, instead of rushing to conclusions, as Missouri’s Democrat Governor Jay Nixon, did when he called for the prosecution of the police officer before the facts are in. 

“When is comes to issues as sensitive as race, you investigate. You don’t come out and make judgment–you don’t do what the governor did which was stupid, and talk about a ‘rigorous prosecution,’” Innis told Hannity while quoting Nixon. 

“Is Eric Holder the right guy?” Hannity asked Innis, “the guy who said we were a ‘nation of cowards’ on race?” 

“Well, he’s one of those cowards, obviously,” Innis quickly answered. “He came in and weighed in, and not operating like the attorney general for all the people of the United States, but weighing in personally on his own personal experience.” 

Dr. Alveda King nodded her head in agreement. 

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