Oh. My. God.
Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse for Alberto “Gonzo” Gonzalez, ohmygod! A Washington, D.C., TV news program did some digging and discovered that the Justice Department hasn’t just neglected civil rights and voting rights and prosecuted the first ever “reverse discrimination” voting rights case on record—it also fails to hire any non-white lawyers! Now Rep. John Conyers, who leads the House Judiciary Committee, is promising yet another investigation. Among the specific charges is that the key department of the—wait for it—civil rights division has failed to hire a single black attorney since 2003 to replace those who have left. Currently, only two lawyers in that department are black.
In case you’re scratching your head saying, “Local news did this?”, The reporter who led the investigation for WJLA-TV had recently come from the Center for Public Integrity. The investigation also relied on a consulting firm’s analysis of D.O.J. diversity. That report found that “minorities perceive unfairness,” are “significantly under-represented in management ranks,” and are “more (about 50 percent more) likely to leave than whites.”
Snap, Alberto. Join Clarence Thomas in the Top 5 of big-time affirmative action beneficiaries who become reactionary extremists in order not to admit that maybe they got a little more of a leg-up than the next non-white guy.
And resign already.
