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Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards
Eric Holder
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Eric Holder
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 21
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Eric Himpton Holder
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