White Disenfranchisement In Noxubee County

March 16, 2009 · Filed Under Politics · 1 Comment

Here’s an interesting story that you’re guaranteed to never read about in the NY Times or on any mainstream news outlet. In fact, if liberals find out you’re even reading it you’ll likely be accused of racism.

It has to do with a major Voting Rights Act case in Noxubee Country, Mississippi. It marked a significant victory for Eric Holder’s Justice Department, but for the first time such a victory didn’t even warrant a press release.

The reason is because it was a case of white voter disenfranchisement at the hands of black voting officials. It was blatant, it was threatening, and it was reminiscent of the 1960’s era black disenfranchisement.

The Noxubee County case presents a deeply disturbing account of some of the most egregious racial discrimination the Justice Department has encountered in decades. In Noxubee, 80 percent of Democrats are black; 20 percent are white. (There are some Republicans as well, but the number is negligible.) The chairman of the Democratic party, Ike Brown, is black, and he, along with the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee, set about to effectively disenfranchise white voters.

Many at the Justice Department refused to even hear the case, because no one wanted to be associated with the concept of white disenfranchisement.

Read the gory details over at NRO.

-Chris Jones

Tags: black racism, noxubee county, voting rights act, white disenfranchisement