Maybe Holder was right about the US being a 'nation of cowards' on race

For more than a year, I followed the case of U.S. v. Ike Brown. That case, prosecuted and won by the Justice Dept. under President George W. Bush,  related to a man in Noxubee County, Miss.

J. Christian Adams, writing for Pajamas Media, said, ~ “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.

Brown organized teams of notary publics to roam the county collecting absentee ballots. In many cases, the notaries cast the ballots themselves instead of the voters.” ~

Those are just a few examples; in my opinion, the article makes it clear Brown tossed voting rights out the window. And Adams says Brown is trying to do the same thing again.

I first learned of the Ike Brown case from Hans A. Von Spakovksy who wrote about it for National Review.

What’s interesting about it now, however, are the revelations Adams shares about the reactions of those within Justice to the Brown case. Adams wrote, “They voiced explicit opposition to Coates about investigating the discrimination. Superiors were reluctant to recommend to political appointees approval of a lawsuit. After the case was filed, the hostility continued. Most attorneys — except one brave woman — refused to work on the matter with Coates. Hostility pervaded the Voting Section, directed at Coates personally and also towards the theory of the case.”

Christopher Coates was chief of the voting section for Justice. Adams said, “He brought cases to stop racial discrimination as far back as 1976, just a decade after passage of the Voting Rights Act. Coates was a former attorney with the ACLU, and while at Justice, he was instrumental in bringing the case against the New Black Panther Party.”

Bear in mind this was a documented case of an individual breaking federal and state laws.

Adams writes about comments one black official made when giving a deposition in Mississippi. The official admitted racial discrimination had occurred, and then said, “But you got to understand...now it’s payback time.”

And on the heels of Ike Brown, a New Black Panther Party member showed up to brandish a nightstick and yell insults at people in front of a precinct on election day.  That incident is documented on video.

Justice slapped the member’s wrist.

What, I wonder, would Justice do if people took that same NBPP member’s advice and decided to “kill white babies”? That hate speech is documented on video and delivered on a public street.

At both events, the NBPP member wore what appeared to be a uniform representing the group. To my knowledge, no action has been taken against the group.

Yet Attorney General Eric Holder said the US is a “nation of cowards” because we don’t talk about race.

Ironically, I find myself agreeing with him, a condition as rare as winning the Powerball.

No major media has covered these developments, other than Fox News and some conservative Internet media. No major newspaper has come forth to take a stand for protecting voting rights. No one has even pointed a finger at Holder despite the fact the Obama administration couldn’t wait to sue Arizona for protecting themselves because the federal government has refused to do its job.

The whole country should in fact be talking about this. Not because it involves white people and black people. But because in the United States, every single vote should count.

There is no in-between on this. And anyone who disagrees is doing the same thing racists did during the Civil Rights era—attempting to prevent someone from exercising the most fundamental right that belongs to him.

Civil rights wasn’t the right thing to do because of black people. It was the right thing to do because of human rights. Those of us who fought the battle to end discrimination can see it no other way.

Yet no one is talking about this. Brown’s behavior and the NBPP behavior are examples you might see set in a Third World Country. I realize we will never see the day when all people of all races approve of one another.

But I also realize that’s why we have law.

We are paying federal employees to act in a manner that is not only morally wrong, it is cowardly. It should come as no surprise that Ike Brown is a Democrat. Hans A. Von Spakovsky said, “In Noxubee, 80 percent of Democrats are black; 20 percent are white. (There are some Republicans as well, but the number is negligible).”

I should mention you don’t have to be white to run things down on the old plantation and Ike Brown is the feudal chief on the plantation that could be called Noxubee. I'd guarantee there's a high misery index down yonder whether you're black or white.

Why are we not talking about this?

Roger Simon broke a story on Wednesday at Pajamas Media about a letter Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) sent to the Inspector General at Justice. Wolf wants an investigation into the NBPP. He also wrote, “I am concerned about revelations from Mr. Adams’ testimony that Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes, a political appointee, reportedly forbid CRD attorneys from bringing forward additional voting intimidation cases in which the defendant was a national minority.  I believe that this allegation merits immediate investigation.   There is no excuse for the selective application of federal law based on the whims of political appointees.”

We have one person in all of government who wants the law enforced? One person brave enough to step forward. Does that not disturb anyone who believes in freedom and the US Constitution?

National media has ignored many stories in an effort to keep the Democrat Party’s brand solid. To ignore these stories is to declare your own media dead as a slug in a saucer of beer.

So maybe Holder is right about that one thing. The ‘cowards’ part, at least when it comes to Justice and national media.