The lead two sentences in a Tuesday afternoon Politico story
got it right: “A scathing new report exposing bitter divisions and
racial hostility at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is
certain to complicate the confirmation process for Tom Perez, who
currently heads the unit and is expected to be President Barack Obama’s
pick as the next Secretary of Labor. The 258-page internal watchdog
report out Tuesday resurrects questions about the handling of the
controversial New Black Panther Party prosecution and faults Perez for
giving misleading public testimony in 2010 when he said political
appointees were not involved in decisions about the case.”
The amazing thing is that many more items in the report by the department’s Inspector General are
even more explosive than those matters that rightly led the Politico
account. While the IG labored mightily to credit almost every excuse
offered by Obamite political appointees (and their ideological
soul-mates in the career ranks) at Justice, the raw facts unearthed (or
confirmed) in the new report make crystal clear the most important
aspect of the Black Panther case all along: The dismissal of already-won
charges against the Panthers was part and parcel of a long-running
hostility within the Civil Rights Division – exacerbated and encouraged
by the Obama political team – against race-neutral enforcement of civil
rights laws.
Liberals in the division were so hostile, in fact,
that they tried to make the workplace a living hell for those career
employees of a more conservative bent who merely wanted to apply the law
as clearly written, to protect the civil rights of Americans of all
races, not just minorities. It wasn’t just the outrageous accusations
that the centrist or right-leaning employees were so racist that they
yearned for days when “everyone wears a white sheet, the darkies say
‘yes’m’ and equal rights for all are the real ‘land of make believe.’”
It wasn’t just the repeated harassment
of a junior black staffer for daring to work on cases where the civil
rights violators were black, including repeatedly calling him a “token”
and accusing him of being a “turncoat.”
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Somehow, I doubt that this is only found in the injustice department. I think the attitudes are found throughout the Feral Government, not matter what level, division or branch. It would be the only thing that could explain the hostility of the .gov to everything in America.
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