In Pursuit of Perfection

James Crow, Esq

The full damage done to America by the current administration will only become clear to us long after Mr. Bush and his cronies have left office.  Thank you Sonya.

clipped from make-it-plain.blogspot.com James Crow, Esq.        Since 2003...the criminal section within the Civil Rights Division has not hired a single black attorney to replace those who have left. Not one. Back in April, I wrote about how the Voting Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice was only interested in protecting the civil rights of white people.  At that time, the full extent of discrimination at the DOJ was unknown to me.  ...the current face of civil rights prosecutions looks like this: Out of fifty attorneys in the Criminal Section - only two are black. The same number the criminal section had in 1978 - even though the size of the staff has more than doubled.  The dearth of African American lawyers at the DOJ is an issue that has been lost amid the attention given to the myriad scandals unearthed at the DOJ in the wake of the departures of dozens of career lawyers.

Discrepancy Even Among Criminal Justice for Dictators?

Hat tip:  Kola at Community Nigeria.

Here's a hit from one of the brothers over at BlogAfrica.

clipped from community.nigeria.com

African War Crimes:Forgiveness if you're White, The Hague if you're Black!

Submitted by kola on Mon, 2007-06-04 18:08.     Africa | Foreign Politics    

The trial of Charles Taylor has been greeted with the usual lazy banalities about there being no place to hide any longer for Africa’s murderous dictators. What is missing from the cosy narrative is the contrasting treatment meted out to black African war criminals as against their equally blood stained white counterparts from the same continent.