Americans should be more worried about policies that discriminate against minorities than racist rants that grab media attention, Attorney General Eric Holder said Saturday.
In a commencement speech at Baltimore’s Morgan State University, he warned of subtler forms of racism — including harsher prison sentences for minorities and voter-ID laws that threaten to keep them from the polls.
Holder didn’t mention LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling by name but said recent headline-grabbing comments are “jarring reminders” of bigotry that must be overcome.
“These outbursts of bigotry, while deplorable, are not the true markers of the struggle that still must be waged, or the work that still needs to be done,” Holder said.