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2005-01-04 01:13 | User Profile
Justice Department Opens Probe Into Massive Anti-White Discrimination
1/3/2005 7:45:36 PM South Mississippi Sun-Herald
Noxubee, Mississippi -- [Bill: This is why white people form groups like the KKK.]
http:/ /www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/10493124.htm
Justice Department questions treatment of whites in Noxubee voting
Associated Press
MACON, Miss. - The U.S. Department of Justice has accused election officials in Noxubee County of discriminating against white voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
William "Boo" Trainer, the president of the Noxubee County Board of Supervisors, said Thursday that county officials will seek a meeting with the Justice Department early next month.
County officials have said a series of complaints from white candidates and voters in the last 18 months prompted the federal investigation.
The county must correct the problem or face sanctions and a federal lawsuit, according to a Dec. 10 letter from the Justice Department to supervisors.
The letter outlines problems found by Justice Department Investigator Christopher Coates. It alleges actions that Coates concludes were aimed at benefiting blacks in the predominantly black county.
Among those actions cited by Coates in the letter were:
Preventing white voters from participating in the Democratic Primary.
Allowing black candidates to violate residency requirements in an effort to defeat white candidates.
Rejecting absentee ballots cast by white voters while accepting ballots from black voters that contain similar or more serious defects.
Discriminating against whites in the selection of people to work at polls and in providing information about the absentee voting process.
Blocking white candidates from viewing the tabulation of ballots while allowing black candidates to do so.
Allowing blacks to violate restrictions against campaigning at the polls.
Counting of absentee ballots to benefit black candidates while ignoring challenges and state laws regarding the counting of absentee ballots.
Failing to provide sufficient privacy for voters to cast absentee ballots and efforts to inappropriately sway voters.
2005-01-04 15:55 | User Profile
Justice Department Opens Probe Into Massive Anti-White Discrimination
It's a little early for an April Fool's joke, isn't it?
2005-01-04 18:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]William "Boo" Trainer, the president of the Noxubee County Board of Supervisors, said Thursday that county officials will seek a meeting with the Justice Department early next month.[/QUOTE] I'm sure these folks are sincere, but I'll give ya'll three guesses how that meeting with the Justice Department will turn out (if they ever get to meet at all). --Hint -- The answer is not 'the allegations will be promptly, thoroughly, and impartially investigated'.
2005-01-04 20:11 | User Profile
Oh, I'm sure there will be an investigation, but it's probably going to be pointed 180 degrees from the direction Mr. Trainer wants it, i.e. the County Board is gonna find itself under the microscope for putative "civil rights" violations, with perhaps a bonus "ethnic intimidation" case thrown in to boot.
2005-01-05 03:25 | User Profile
If a county is that predominantly Negro, why would any white want to live there ? Just move out and let them bring the land down to gutter level as they always do.. incapable of the most perfunctory maintenance at all.
2005-01-05 14:52 | User Profile
Arkady predicts that this sham "investigation" will accomplish... (drum roll)...
Absolutely nothing.
2005-01-05 15:03 | User Profile
Yes, the justice department will find no one guilty of anti-white discrimination. 60 Minutes and the rest of the mainstream news media won't have anything to say.
2005-01-05 16:32 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]Yes, the justice department will find no one guilty of anti-white discrimination. 60 Minutes and the rest of the mainstream news media won't have anything to say.[/QUOTE] Well actualy they already have found someone guilty, re: Coates. It's a question of what they'll do about it.
Its interesting that they're doing something at all. Or even talking about doing something. We can only wonder, discounting of course the superficial hype. And one wonders what will happen if they actually do something. i.e. proceed with the federal lawsuit. Personally it seems unlikely like you suggest. More likely a little slap on the wrist.
2005-01-05 18:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Okiereddust]Well actualy they already have found someone guilty, re: Coates. It's a question of what they'll do about it.[/QUOTE]
That only means that the one guy was dumb enough to admit guilt to something, maybe out of fear of harsher charges.