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I think the article seems to be very well on point. The part that you are leaving out that needs to be put back in.... If you look at the Rodney King trial.... State Courts in certain jurisdictions did not provide what most people would call "acceptable justice"... I am not a fan of Rodney King either but no way can you tell me that he deserved what he received that night...

It was the Federal Prosecutions that gave the black community some sense of "acceptable justice"... What is scaring the he$$ out of the black community is the perceived swing toward conservatives in the judiciary.... This is why Janice Brown, Clarence Thomas, and others scare the black community... The Federal Government has given the black community "acceptable justice" .... When you talk about state's rights, the perception that you are talking about history that has usually not been kind to those with a good tan needs to be addressed... The Federal Government was a place where most of our protections that were denied in state courts have been affirmed and upheld...

Until a black person feels that he can get justice in Simi Valley and Orange County as well as LA, this affection for the federal government is going to exist...

You have to deal honestly and sensitively with the history if you want things to change...

What Martin Luther King said is true... At the state level, it has not been the behavior of the bad people.... It has been the silence of the good people...

And you have to remember that people's experiences which are still significantly different where race is concerned will have different perceptions of events....

When you have things like what happened in Tulia, TX and Jasper, TX (while Bush was Governor), please understand that limited government means to minorities that they have no protection against majorities...

Change that perception and the game is over... You must understand that your goal is an honorable one but difficult to achieve... Most people would say that states and local authorities have a poor record when it comes to fair treatment of blacks...