I haven’t been posting on the story of the Obama Justice Department’s failure to pursue civil rights charges against the New Black Panther Party intimidating voters at the polls because: A.) it wasn’t a surprise, because Obama’s never given more than a conflicted slap on the wrist to anyone on the left (and still hasn’t had his Sister Souljah Moment, and presumably never will), B.) It was a relatively small story compared compared to all the other corruption and malfeasance surrounding the Obama administration likes flies buzzing around a dead hyena, and C.) There was no smoking gun that higher ups refused to pursue the case for political reasons.
Well, there’s now a smoking gun in the form of Christopher Coates testimony.
I suggest you read the entire thing. Unfortunately, the document is a “blogger hostile” secured PDF document, which makes cutting-and-pasting the text impossible (at least without cracking tools I don’t have), but the content is eye-opening.
To summarize: Both Civil Rights Division career lawyers in general and Obama Administration appointees in specific are actively hostile to race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act and refuse to bring any cases against blacks, in defiance of the specific language of the act.
Obama’s election was supposed to usher in a “post-racial America.” Instead, his election seems to have intensified the race-mongering pathologies of the American far-left: Identity Politics, unequal protection, and government not as a neutral arbiter, but as a distributor of spoils to favored groups.
Tags: Black Panthers, Christopher Coates, Department of Justice, New Black Panthers Party, Obama, Sister Souljah
The New Black Panther Case: A Conservative Dissent, by Abigail Thernstrom