Jeff Jacoby is one of the only reasons I can think of to read the Boston Globe.

This is not a nation of cowards, Mr. Holder

Holder’s racial melancholy struck many people as peculiar, inasmuch as he is the first black American to head the Justice Department, and inasmuch as the American president who appointed him is the most celebrated black man in the world. Was such gloom really called for in a speech marking the first Black History Month of the Obama presidency?