From NY Times:
U.S. Says Blacks in Mississippi Suppress White Vote
By ADAM NOSSITER
MACON, Miss., Oct. 5  The Justice Department has chosen this no-stoplight, courthouse town buried in the eastern Mississippi prairie for an unusual civil rights test: the first federal lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act accusing blacks of suppressing the rights of whites.
The action represents a sharp shift, and it has raised eyebrows outside the state. The government is charging blacks with voting fraud in a state whose violent rejection of blacks’ right to vote, over generations, helped give birth to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Yet within Mississippi the case has provoked knowing nods rather than cries of outrage, even among liberal Democrats.
The Justice Department’s main focus is Ike Brown, a local power broker whose imaginative electoral tactics have for 20 years caused whisperings from here to the state capital in Jackson, 100 miles to the southwest. Mr. Brown, tall, thin, a twice-convicted felon, the chairman of the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee and its undisputed political boss, is accused by the federal government of orchestrating  with the help of others  “relentless voting-related racial discrimination†against whites, whom blacks outnumber by more than 3 to 1 in the county.
His goal, according to the government: keeping black politicians  ones supported by Mr. Brown, that is  in office.” (more…)
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I have nothing more to say on this other than that I gonna monitor quite a few websites out there today that would normally scream this from the rooftop if this had been the other way around (I’ve got my evil eye on you 
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I saw news special on this a few months ago. Not that this might not actually be the case, but this IS Mississippi we are talking about, so you’ll have to excuse me if I don’t immediately jump on the bandwagon. I have no doubt that dirty politics goes on there, and that power and money matter more than ethnicity. If it’s proven this guy is suppressing the white vote in Mississippi, toss him in jail. One thing grabbed my attention in that article, it was about importing an outside lawyer to run for a position. That reminded me of when the Republican Party collared Alan Keyes to come to Illinois to run against Barack Obama (because everyone knows that to black folks issues don’t matter only skin color…right?). This ought to be interesting to watch, the state where Haley Barbour is governor, and where organizations like the Council for Conservative Citizens wields power…interesting they would choose to single out a black power broker. What does the Miss. flag look like again?
Its funny how things tend to remind you of Republican faults. On the other hand, when I bring up mess going on in the Liberal camp, as expected your tone then turns to “both parties are wrong”.
Please excuse me for saying DMG makes a slight point here. Limbaugh’s slant for awhile is to point out when the “other side” does it as does Larry Elder.
On this one specifically, this is interesting and I’d like to see how it turns out.
Whooa! Where did that come from??
I was addressing DMG here as an individual and not comparing him to Rush Limbaugh or Larry Elder.
And besides, the people you mentioned are P-A-I-D to give those those types of responses.
Duane, I only mentioned the Alan Keyes thing because 1.) it was true, and 2.) it was blatantly race baiting, and happened in the state where I live. Now if you see liberal bias or partisan politics around every corner, well that’s on you. And you can’t tell me that YOU weren’t being partisan by posting this article. It’s early in the morning, and I read these things quickly, but I’m NOT blind.
Trust me, I was thinking of either Conservatives or Liberals on this one. What was in mind I wrote in the post.