Your point (as I perceive it, anyway) could be paraphrased as "it's better to be non-confrontational than to be honest". "Confrontational" does not need to be taken the way you took it. One can be confrontational with a "wake up!" call, without any sort of "us vs them" issue being involved. And confrontational could be simply a poor choice of words rather than a description of a poor choice of intentions. Like saying "retribution" instead of "reparations". The meaning is the same. The connotation is quite different. At least I think I'm clear now that "the poster" was Frank "Stringsinger". Thanks for that.

One other thing, to the extent that I understand Holder's attribution of "cowardice", it would apply as much to Americans "of color" as to us "colorless" folk. What he was saying, as I understand it, and I think this is something Obama would actually agree with in principle if not in wording, was "stop being afraid to talk honestly and openly about race."

Haruo