PJ Rule of Law: “Here’s the problem, those poll watchers – which News21 simply must identify as white like some crime report from 1961 (A negro robbed a woman. . . ) – have a right to be in the polls under state law to observe the election. News21’s funders might not like the fact that tens of thousands of law abiding citizens will be in the polls all over the nation this fall to ensure that crimes don’t occur and laws are followed. But the poll watchers in the story did nothing wrong.

Except of course, they were white. What more do you need?

News21 published the racial paranoia of Jamila Gatlin as if there was not a whiff of crazy in it. To college kids, heads filled with all species of racial grievance, perhaps there wasn’t. But to the rest of us as adults live in a multi-racial country with hundreds of interactions in a week with people of all races, Gatlin sounds nuts.

Worse than nuts, actually. She sounds like the segregationist from 1950’s Mississippi. A black person ‘round here? How dare they!! Somebody do something.”

PJ Rule of Law: “Here’s the problem, those poll watchers – which News21 simply must identify as white like some crime report from 1961 (A negro robbed a woman. . . ) – have a right to be in the polls under state law to observe the election. News21’s funders might not like the fact that tens of thousands of law abiding citizens will be in the polls all over the nation this fall to ensure that crimes don’t occur and laws are followed. But the poll watchers in the story did nothing wrong.

Except of course, they were white. What more do you need?

News21 published the racial paranoia of Jamila Gatlin as if there was not a whiff of crazy in it. To college kids, heads filled with all species of racial grievance, perhaps there wasn’t. But to the rest of us as adults live in a multi-racial country with hundreds of interactions in a week with people of all races, Gatlin sounds nuts.

Worse than nuts, actually. She sounds like the segregationist from 1950’s Mississippi. A black person ‘round here? How dare they!! Somebody do something.”