A Cleveland man wore a t-shirt to Glenn Beck’s rally on Saturday with the slogan “Protect White Cracker Babies.”First, some context. A member of the New Black Panther Party was captured on video as he stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia on election day 2008 with a nightstick. The Bush Justice Department filed a civil case against the man, another New Black Panther Party member and the national party with voter intimidation. Once Obama took office, the Justice Department decided there wasn’t enough evidence to merit the case against the other Black Panther and the national party, but obtained an injunction against the man carrying the nightstick. The conservative-dominated Civil Rights Commission is now investigating and has asked Congress to give it permission to sue DOJ.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=122001