Many people have heard about and are discouraged by the Voting Rights case in Philadelphia where the Obama Justice Department dropped a case against the New Black Panthers in what was obviously voter intimidation. That case was outrageous, but have you heard of Ike Brown?
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.
The Bush Justice Department investigated and sued Ike Brown. The Obama Justice Department dropped the case. Most Americans would be outraged by this (if the media ever decided to do their jobs).
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