Ike Brown: Racist in Mississippi voting

  J. Christian Adams has been writing columns for Pajamas Media since he resigned from the DoJ recently. He discusses incidents of racial discrimination in voting around the United States and the DoJ's response to them. You can find his other columns here. This week he discusses a notorious case in Mississippi in which a black democrat (Ike Brown) openly obstructed and challenged white voters' ability to vote honestly.

Right now, the Holder Justice Department has a submission from Ike Brown to allow him to do precisely the same thing he tried in 2003 — prevent people from voting based on their party loyalties.

  The case will reach some sort of resolution tomorrow.
  This case is pretty incredible in this century, as it feels more like an early black and white movie from the fifties. Note: Adams makes a distinction that is interesting and thought provoking at the end of this article. Just because, he says, DoJ makes decisions that are not race neutral does not mean they are themselves racist. The decisions simply reflect a world view. This is an interesting point to be mulled, if one can regard the purveyors of such malignant judgments so magnanimously.

But this week we should get some clarity. And I’ll wager that Americans aren’t going to like what they hear.

This story hails from rural east Mississippi: majority black Noxubee County is home to Ike Brown, one of the most lawless purveyors of racial discrimination the nation has seen in decades. (I have written in greater detail about the racially motivated lawlessness Brown used to victimize minority white voters in the county.) Brown canceled ballots cast by white voters. He stuffed the ballot box with illegal ballots supporting his preferred black candidates. He deployed teams of notaries to roam the countryside and mark absentee ballots instead of voters. He allowed forced assistance in the voting booth, to the detriment of white voters. He threatened 174 white voters by declaring that if they tried to participate in an election, he might challenge them and not let them vote. He publicized the 174 names.

There's much, much more detail about Ike Brown here. This is essential reading, particularly regarding all the information that has leaked out this week about other voter intimidation and the democrat caucus cheating scandal that put Obama in office.

Brown was the head of the Democratic Party in Noxubee County, a majority black county. The party ran the Democratic primaries, which served as de facto general elections, and Brown made no secret about his desire to see every government office in the county held by a black officeholder. Brown ran a Tammany Hall-style political operation. During one election, he literally stuffed illegal ballots he knew were marked for black candidates through an optical scanner in front of a crowd of angry citizens shouting provisions of Mississippi law at him.

“You ain’t dealing with Mississippi law, this is Ike Brown’s law,” he replied.

There's much more.