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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Mr. Holder: the way to stop....is to stop...

"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
~Chief Justice John Roberts
  J. Christian Adams, from Pajamas Media, DOJ lawyer recounting the flaws in the current DOJ's operating procedures in the case of Ike Brown, who prevented whites from voting:

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.
Brown ran the primary elections because he is the Democratic Party chairman. At the trial, a woman on Brown’s list testified that she was too afraid to vote because she thought she might be arrested.
Eric Holder, from Politico:
Think about that," Holder said. "When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia—which was inappropriate, certainly that…to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people," said Holder, who is black. 
  Philadelphia wasn't just about Philadelphia, Mr. Holder; it was about a pervasive DOJ attitude regarding race and voting. The rights of all the people in this country are not being defended.
  "My people" should refer to all American citizens, not just black citizens. 
  It isn't a competition to see who's more aggrieved. It's about defending the rights of Americans, no matter what color.
  Sorry you don't know that.

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