Eric Holder is exposed for his shallow charge that "We are all cowards" when it comes to race. Bull!!! and here is why.

REID: “Well, I’m struggling listening to you by the words of a deputy attorney general going back to about the year 2000, 2001, in a similar case in new York, a young west African immigrant. And at that time, that deputy attorney general Eric Holder issued memorandum explaining why there was not going to be a federal prosecution of the officers acquitted in that killing. And at that time, you said there was a sense of mistrust between black communities and police that needed to be bridged, trust needed to be built up. What does it say that we essentially are in the same exact place now so many years later?” 

HOLDER: "It means that we as a nation have failed. It's as simple as that. We have failed. We have understood that these issues have existed long before even that 2001 memorandum by that then young deputy attorney general. These are issues we've been dealing with for generations. And it's why we have to seize this opportunity that we now have. We have a moment in time. That we can, perhaps, come up with some meaningful change. It's what I'm committed to doing, even in the limited time I have left as attorney general and I'll certainly continue to do it after I leave office. It's what this administration is committed to.vmb(but I also feel that the nation, the nation, I think, is really ready for this kind of change. And I would hope that ten years from now, 12 years from now, we'll not look back on this as a lost opportunity. I think in particular what happened in New York with the whole garner matter. Which I can't get into because it's something that we are still in the process of investigating. That, I think, has galvanized the nation. And I think that we have to take advantage of this, the feeling that exists now in our country. And make it better.   (Source:  https://grabien.com/story.php?id=19262  -  you may need to create an account to verify quote,  but,  then again,  I never misquote anyone ~ editor)

Editor's notes:  It is silly to argue that we are in "the same exact exact place" as 14 years ago. Whether one agrees or not,  partnering with the likes of Al Sharption,  rejected by many within his own community,  is no way to "bridge" the problems,  real and imagined, between blacks and the police.  When 200 blacks walk down the middle of a New York street,  shouting  "What do we want, Dead Cops !  When do we want it, Now !"  well,  how is that trying to bridge the gap?  Certainly,  back in the 1950's,  these folks would have been shot.  Now,  they are allowed to foster such demonstrations, even encouraged to do so by the likes of the Administration and police force they hate.   How is that not proof of great improvement?   My family members were Yankees in the Civil War,  but because I am white,  there are places I cannot go,  today,  simply because I am white. This blanket "the white man is. still. a slave trader" is so much crap,  and patiently untrue because of its broadbrush charge   . . . .   absolute nonsense.  

Finally,  when Holder speaks of "meaningful change" to the tension between the police and the black community,  what, specifically,  does this "man of courage" have in mind?  When one levels charges with no specific solutions,  that person is nothing more than a trouble maker.  

The harsh fact of the matter is this:  Eric Holder and H Obama have done absolutely nothing,  in their lifetimes,  to promote peace and resolution within the black community  . . . . . .    nothing.  And many, many blacks agree with this assessment.  It is Holder and Obama who are the cowards,  hiding behind their current positons of authority,  dictating and channeling open rebellion with no real solutions in mind.  Disagree?  Define their solutions.  What,  exactly,  do they have in mind,  other than refusing to prosecute black on white crime  (which is exactly what this Administration supports).  After six years,  the black community,  specifically,  is poorer,  less employed,  and failing more in terms of education than ever before.  These are the facts.  I have worked with "kids at risk" for 40 years.  They are just like my [white] boys  . . . . .   same dreams,  same desire to succeed,  same hopes for the future.  All they need is effective leadership  . . . .   things Sharpton,  Jesse Jackson,  Eric Holder,  H Obama and others,  refuse to offer (in concrete terms).  I mean,  how can one criticize others,  when,  six years down the road,  they are "admitting" that nothing has changed during their time in leadership?