This Is Ugly

I've avoided this story for months, thinking perhaps it was overblown. Now it is hard to ignore. The event was members of the "New Black Panthers" intimidating voters outside a voting location in Philadelphia in 2008. About the event there isn't much question.

The real issue has been the apparent failure of the Department of Justice to prosecute this issue because the victims were white and the perps were black. Perhaps the accusations were correct after all.

See this article from Fox News concerning recent testimony to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Current and former DOJ officials say the Department is systematically avoiding race-neutral application of the Voting Rights Act.

It appears the still-employed official has been treated as a whistleblower and shunted to a regional office, away from Washington. This story has become hard to ignore, and ugly.