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Op-Ed: Holder Shouldn't Have Called Us Cowards

Attorney General Eric Holder called America "a nation of cowards" because he believes Americans don't discuss race frankly. New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow writes Holder may be right, but the language he used is "counterproductive."

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