How many African American lawyers do you think there are in the Bush Civil Rights division?

[BurtWorm]

TPM has the answer:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003160.php

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By Paul Kiel - May 7, 2007, 9:26 AM

I'm not sure if this qualifies as ironic or just sadly fitting.

As we've attempted to document here, the Civil Rights Division has been the focus of the most dramatic effort at politicization in the Justice Department. Career lawyers, harassed and discouraged, have left in droves, while political appointees like Bradley Schlozman have stocked the division with stark conservatives.

So this will come as no surprise.

ABC's Washington D.C. affiliate WJLA-TV crunched some numbers in the Civil Rights Division's criminal section -- the section charged with prosecuting the worst civil rights offenses like hate crimes. And here's what they found:

The I-Team has learned that 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.

As a result, 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.

As Richard Ugelow, the former deputy section chief of the employment section in the Civil Rights Division puts it, "We would sue employers for having numbers like that." Ugelow, you might have guessed, is one of the dozens of career lawyers who have left the division in the past six years....

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1. The bushes are doing worse than in 1978

The Civil Rights Division had about 25 lawyers in 1978 - two of which were black. That is about 10%. Today the division that is suppose to look out for the rights of minorities has 5% blacks. So who exactly is the Civil Rights Division looking out for?

[LiberalFighter]

5. For Clarence Thomas blacks

[gatorboy]

2. Bush has a Civil Rights division???

[BurtWorm]

3. In the same sense that he "has" a Constitution to "protect."

;)

[rwork]

4. It would also be interesting

to know how many are employed to cover their messes and spin their lies.Kind of similar to Dan Bartlett. If they have any conscience, will it bother them someday.

[Kurovski]

6. K&R. (nt)