DOJ Racism Leaks Through The Cracks

Will this be the start? The Black Panther story was not just a stain on the Obama Administration, but also a stain on the mainstream media, which has refused to raise this issue to the prominence it deserves. Imagine, for example, Robert Byrd's old Ku Klux Klan tribe trying to frighten blacks away from a polling place.

Christopher Coates's testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was the latest fallout from the department's handling of a 2008 voter-intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party. Conservatives and some congressional Republicans accuse Justice officials of improperly narrowing the charges, allegations that they strongly dispute.
Filed weeks before the Obama administration took office, the case focused on two party members who stood in front of a polling place in Philadelphia on Election Day 2008, one carrying a nightstick. The men were captured on video and were accused of trying to discourage some people from voting.
Coates, former head of the voting section that brought the case, testified in defiance of his supervisor's instructions and has been granted whistleblower protection. Coates criticized what he called the "gutting" of the New Black Panthers case for "irrational reasons," saying the decision was part of "deep-seated" opposition among the department's leaders to filing voting-rights cases against minorities and cases that protect whites. 

This isn't the only effort by the Justice Department to selectively enforce the law based upon race. The Obama DOJ has also refused to enforce provisions of the Motor Voter Act, because doing so would limit Democrat vote fraud efforts.