J. Christian Adams: DOJ Opponents of Race-Neutral Law Should Explain Themselves
I couldn’t disagree more with your analysis of the statement about black leadership in White House and DOJ. I think it was neutral to say how pleased she was that we have a black president and black AG. Every American felt relieved and proud at this achievement, finally. The statement itself was neutral in terms of prejudice. It was great that this finally happened. I think everybody felt that way, whether King felt it in some prejudiced way or not, the statement resonated positively with me for sure. The statement itself was fine.
However, and this is important, I couldn’t agree with you more that the DOJ appears to have embarked on a course of enforcement that is NOT race neutral and I do NOT approve of this. I think it is tearing us apart. I think this course of action is definitely happening, whether or not you think there was enough evidence to go forward with the NBP voting case or not.
I do not think we will see a watershed period for civil rights enforcement in this country at all. I do not think DOJ is going to shed its docility on civil rights. I think it will continue to magnificently achieve its rhetorical, propaganda goals, its civil rights enforcement message, the message that they are prioritizing civil rights as never before. I think DOJ will continue to fail miserably in actually achieving any turnaround of its historical docility in enforcing civil rights laws, especially in police or other official/government misconduct cases.
I think therefore, this DOJ will go down in history as the most manipulative ever, a DOJ that will build up faith and hope like never before and break the hearts of the victims of civil rights abuses, repaying their faith so poorly, cruelly and ruthlessly as to be unprecedented. It already is well on its way. Already it has broken lives irretrievably. It will conclude its reign with a country never before so disillusioned, broken and misused by it.





