https://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/01/28/doj-official-the-law-was-written-to-protect-black-people/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 04:46:24 -0400<![CDATA[Civil Rights Commissioner Gail Heriot deserves a round of applause.  Of all the many interesting things in the report on the New Black Panther dismissal by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, none was as revealing as the revelation that Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes made it clear to a large public audience that the voting rights laws weren’t meant to protect white voters from discrimination.  “The law was written to protect black people,” she told them.  Commissioner Heriot digs this disgraceful Fernandes quote up.   She made it before she was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General in front of an audience of fellow travelers who certainly agreed with her.  Of course Fernandes is literally correct in the most minimalist and irrelevant sense.  But the law that was written in fact protected more than black people.  It protects whites, Hispanics and everyone else.  This helps explain why the DOJ has kept Fernandes under wraps and out of the public eye since Coates and I testified about her racialist attitude.  These are the sorts of explicit outrageous statements that should disqualify someone from employment in the Civil Rights Division instead a enjoying a full wagon circle by the DOJ.  Had a similar racialist statement been made by a conservative-leaning lawyer inside DOJ, I’ll wager it would be front page news at the Washington Post with rent-a-crowd protests outside the office until the offending speaker resigned.]]>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:43:13 -0500<![CDATA[Christian Adams]]>https://pjmedia.com/christian-adams/2011/01/28/doj-official-the-law-was-written-to-protect-black-people-n138753