Thernstrom: Black Panther Case Overhyped
Writing at National Review Online, Abigail Thernstrom argues that the attention on the alleged voter intimidation case involving members of the New Black Panther Party is unwarranted.
The more I learned about the Black Panther case, however, the more doubtful I became that this was the egregious example of voter intimidation that it first appeared to be. When the Commission decided to make the Philadelphia incident the subject of its annual civil-rights law-enforcement report — the major report we work on throughout the year — I could not support that decision. Whatever the facts turned out to be, I felt, the incident was not of sufficient importance to be the primary focus of our yearlong project. If this small and isolated incident were truly the single most important civil-rights issue in America today, we would have much to celebrate.
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