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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder listens as Steve Dettlebach, U.S. attorney general for the Northern District of Ohio, speaks to reporters at a press conference on Dec. 4, 2014 in Cleveland. (Photo by Angelo Merendino/Getty Images) | Angelo Merendino via Getty Images

Attorney General Eric Holder, who in the past has spoken frankly about racial inequalities in the U.S. criminal justice system, will revisit the subject Thursday during an interview with MSNBC's Joy Reid.

In a taped segment that will air on "The Reid Report" Thursday afternoon, Holder and Reid met at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, to discuss the fraught relationship between American law enforcement and many people and communities of color -- an issue that has received national attention this year with the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, among other unarmed black males.

"I certainly think that we have to build up a better relationship between young people, people of color and people in law enforcement," Holder told Reid. "There is distrust that exists on both sides. There's misunderstanding that exists on both sides."

Reid cited the case of Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old West African immigrant shot and killed by four NYPD officers in 1999. Diallo was unarmed when he died.

Diallo's death touched off a national uproar, and on Thursday, Reid and Holder noted that things hardly seem to have progressed in the 15 years since.

"What does it say that we essentially are in the same exact place now, so many years later?" asked Reid.

"It means that we, as a nation, have failed," Holder replied. "It's as simple as that. We have failed."

Holder acknowledged that proper training is required among law enforcement officers, and added that there are many other areas in need of improvement.

"One of the things I think we need to do is do a better job of just collecting statistics," Holder said. "We don't necessarily have the basis now to look at this country as a whole and understand how big the problem is. It's one of the things our Bureau of Justice Statistics is trying to come up with, a way in which we start to gather this kind of information. And that'll give us a much better way in which we can get a handle on this problem."

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WASHINGTON Christians are raising concern afterAttorney General Eric Holderissued an internal memo last week within the United States Department of Justice announcing that it is to now interpret federal law as prohibiting discrimination against transgenders for employment opportunities.

The Department announced thedevelopmenton Thursday, meaning that it is heretofore open to bringing legal claims on behalf of those who state that they have been turned down for employment or let go from their jobs because of their gender identity.

Attorney General Holder announced today that the Department of Justice will take the position in litigation that the protection of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 extends to claims of discrimination based on an individuals gender identity, including transgender status, it wrote.

The Department had previously come to the conclusion that the laws prohibition on sex discrimination does not apply to those who seek to identify as the opposite sex. Thursdays announcement reverses that decision.

The federal governments approach to this issue has evolved over time, the memo written by Holder stated. In 2006, theDepartment stated in litigation that Title VII s prohibition of discrimination based on sex did notcover discrimination based on transgender status or gender identity per se.

In 2012, the Equal Employment OpportunityCommission ruled that discrimination on the basis of gender identity is discrimination on the basis of sex, he continued. More recently,the president announced that discrimination based on gender identity is prohibited for purposes of federal employment and government contracting.

Holder said that in studying case law surrounding the matter and developing jurisprudence on the subject he determined that the Civil Rights Act extends to transgendered persons because an employees genderidentification is as a member of a particular sex, or because the employee is transitioning, or hastransitioned, to another sex.

This important shift will ensure that the protections of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are extended to those who suffer discrimination based on gender identity, including transgender status, he commented in a press release issued by the office of public affairs. This will help to foster fair and consistent treatment for all claimants. And it reaffirms the Justice Departments commitment to protecting the civil rights of all Americans.

But some are concerned overthe announcement, stating that it could pose a problem with Christian organizations and others who wish to run their businesses and ministries in accordance with their beliefs.

The limited exemptions in Title VII mean that applying this theory nationwide would require employers with legitimate concernssuch as religious organizations and child care centersto hire men who pretend to be women and women who pretend to be men, stated Peter Sprigg,Senior Fellow for Policy Studies at the Family Research Council. Parents are deeply concerned that giving a special status to transgender persons will lead to troubling situations for their children, and religious leaders are left unsure how this arbitrary new rule will affect hiring within their ministries.

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Eric Holder has been one of the most rabid race baiters to surface in this country since Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were in their prime. What has made him particularly disruptive was his ability and willingness (desire??) to bring the power of the Justice Department to bear on anyone and anything he felt was not behaving exactly as he wanted. Cases in point: Collecting AP records: going after James Rosen's e-mail based on a sworn statement to the effect that Rosen was co-conspirator (because he was doing his job of collecting news) in some nefarious scheme: Strong arming banks and others into paying exorbitant "fines" while ignoring the managers (big time Dem contributors??) who either brought about or facilitated the financial meltdown: Giving the Black Panthers a "pass". At the same time he refused (tacitly) to "go after" transgressors such as the IRS (think Lois Lerner), the State Department (think Behghazi), the ATF (think gun walking), the VA (think falsified "waiting lists"), to name a few. And he seems to have ignored Congress' request for documents related to any of those....

But, as bad as they are, his biased outlook and management style as our Attorney General may not be the worst thing we can think of. His legacy at Justice is likely going to turn out to be a whole lot more troublesome.

We talk about the Prez.' influence lasting for a long time after he leaves the government housing at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave by virtue of the liberal judges he has appointed. And he has appointed quite a few thanks to the ethically reprehensible behavior of his chief sycophant Harry Reid who virtually single handedly subverted the Senate oversight of "Presidential appointments". Holder's legacy will be almost as significant as the Anointed One, albeit not as visible.

I said: "These jobs, which I believe are mostly paid at the GS15 level aren't bad paying jobs. In fact a lot of folks (including me) would view them as pretty well paying jobs. The down side (from the Schedule C employees standpoint) is that they do not enjoy the "job protections" enjoyed by ordinary Civil Service employees. They can be terminated virtually at will by the same forces that employed them to begin with.

It is quite normal at about this point in every administration that a great many of these Schedule C folks who have gotten comfortable in the bureaucracy and become friendly with the "regular" employees, begin to "work the system" in an effort to get converted to a "regular" (i.e. career) employee status. Many of them will be successful and move into non Schedule C "career positions" where they cannot be removed at will by the new administration's people. "

It is those Holder appointed Schedule C people who convert to "career positions" who are worrisome. They can not only continue to influence the Department's liberal policies but they can also thwart the desires of a more conservative management. To the extent they are successful, Holder's policies will live on at the Justice Department - a change in Administrations not withstanding. To the detriment of people who want an "even handed" Justice Department, they will have become "faceless bureaucrats" surely intent on spreading the Holder (or is it the Obama) doctrine - and there isn't much we can do about it. Both Reps and Dems do it but that doesn't make it any less odious or reprehensible . It should be stopped..

Between Holder and the Anointed One, there has been more damage done to race relations in the United States than ever before. They have both fanned the flames of racial animosity without pause since having been ensconced into their powerful positions. If very many of the Holder people get into career positions, race relations will surely continue to deteriorate - which would certainly be a very bad thing. Not only does he send his troops to Ferguson MO to investigate the shooting of a black youngster by a white policeman, but he goes there himself. When a recent convert to Islam in Norman OK whose face book page is reportedly rife with Jihadist material beheads a lady while shouting Jihadist slogans, Holder doesn't even bother to denounce the action - or even question calling the crime "work place violence"; the same as the Fort Hood murders were treated. They name streets after people like him - "One Way". I suppose the day will come that when we see a street named "One Way" we will wonder if it is named after the Anointed One or Eric Holder...

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