You know, a few years ago this really would have suprised me. But after the Supreme Court decisions of the last week, this doesn't suprise me. A federal judge in Mississippi has actually ruled that blacks in a Mississippi county violated the Voting Rights Act and discriminated against whites. Honestly, I am again at a loss for words. Only this reminds us, yet again, of how critical it is that we take back the presidency. We have to and start knocking some sense back into the judiciary.
Whites Faced Election Bias In Mississippi, Judge Rules
JACKSON, Miss., June 29 -- The head of a Mississippi Democratic Party organization illegally suppressed white residents' votes, a federal judge ruled Friday in the first case filed by the Justice Department alleging that whites were subjected to voting discrimination based on their race.
Of course this bullshit argument can only be believed if you ignore the reason why we have civil rights laws in the first place. Civil Rights laws are not about treating blacks and whites the exact same way. Civil Rights laws are about protecting minority groups (not just ethnic minorities) who have a history of disenfranchizement, lack of representation in government, and of being persecuted by the majority group. Civil Rights laws are about righting a wrong, not treating the races as though they are completely and totally equal (with equal histories and challenges).
Brown, who is black, has been chairman of the committee since 2000. He argued at trial that the government's suit was a perversion of the voting rights law and said it was "preposterous" that the Justice Department would claim that blacks, who faced 135 years of discrimination by whites in the state, are now oppressing whites.
Bullshit like this, coming from an ultra-conservative judicary, will do little more than energize liberals across the country. Much like the moderate ("liberal") decisions of the past 40 years pissed off and rallied conservatives, this will again happen, only in the reverse. I believe the 2004 election was an inflection point. The pendulum has now begun swinging back the other way
Wan J. Kim, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's civil rights division, praised the decision.
I think that quote says everything, plain and simple.