This week marks Barack Obama’s hundred days in office.  To commemorate this milestone, we’re highlighting his biggest FIVE moments! In case you missed moment #5, it was an official shout-out to the media for going above and beyond the call of duty to capture what could be the biggest American story ever!

Coming in at #4: The Eric Holder Move!

As President elect, Barack Obama was filling cabinet positions like he was playing chess; smart, cautious and well-planned. He wasn’t walking into the White House as the only African American making history; he brought Eric Holder on board and named him the first African American U.S. Attorney General.  

What really makes this move major is that Eric Holder is willing to open the discussion on race matters.  Americans elected the first Black president yet race issues remain a sensitive topic and its one that Obama should not have to tackle alone.  At the 2009 Department of Justice African American History Month Program, Holder stated “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards… To get to the heart of this country, one must examine its racial soul.  And yet, if we are to make progress in this area, we must feel comfortable enough with one another, and tolerant enough of each other, to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us.”

Eric Holder is really what the country needs, a Black successful man willing to share and listen in order to unite America.  For this reason, we think Holder was the right man at the right time.  It doesn’t hurt that his success will help open the door for other Black lawyers to have greater opportunities.

How would you grade Obama’s cabinet?  Was it historic enough?  Tell us here.

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