Indictments should follow, post haste.
Me wonders if Ms. Berry maybe was reluctant to leave because her successor may find out she had her "hand in the till" so to speak.
My bet is that they are lawyering up because of possible indictments for misappropriation of government funds.
This has been a long time coming and way overdue.
I doubt Mary Frances had her hand in the till. She was just a totally incompetent bigot who insisted the commission find whites at fault in every decision it made. Her hatred of White people didnt allow her to get her job done. Others saw her incompetence and used it to get away with shoddy work, or were incompetent themselves. It was an agency run by hate and not by any effort to solve the racism it was supposed to be fighting.
Woo hoo! I've had it in for those guys after reading the terrible report they did on the 2000 Florida vote. What a biased piece of crap that was.
Justice Dept had to inform Berry that she could not use Federal monies for lawyers to fight Pres Bush. Should anyone wonder that Pres Reagan fired her for being obstinate? Of course she went to court and got her job back.
Berry, who is a registered Independent, says African Americans have not been respected by the Democratic Party and it is time to explore other options. "Democrats don't take Black voters serious enough," she says. "They want people to vote for them but they are not interested in having them help shape what they are going to do. We need a third party or something. Adhering to the Democratic Party isn't working." For the past 40 years, Blacks have given Democratic presidential candidates 82 percent to 94 percent of their votes. 'You think about how many votes Black people give Democrats yet Democrats weren't the first ones to make a Black person National Security Advisor. They weren't the first to put someone at the State Department. They weren't the first ones to do any of these things. That's why Republicans are smarter than they are." And Berry says publicly what many Blacks will only admit privately. "You have to beg the Democrats to do anything," she says. "Even when you look at Clinton, who was the most powerful Black person on the White House staff? The chief of staff wasn't Black. Neither was the deputy chief of staff. The National Security Advisor wasn't. The domestic policy adviser wasn't. None of the key people that he had over there were Black. He didn't have anybody in any job of major substance. And that was Clinton. The Republicans come in and they can easily find Black people who think just like them. They put them over there and everything is fine."
This Commission should be disbanded- it has no purpose which isn't already handled by other government departments like the DoJ. It is a political organization that serves no important function.