Please don't let it be about race.

Hey, look. I'm a white guy from the East Side in Detroit. When I was six we moved to the deep south where I got to soak up some Jim Crow attitudes, and then we moved back to Detroit when I was a teenager, just in time for the '67 riots. Try getting all that out of your system. I've got race fatigue. Arguments about race make me very tired.

Which is why I've practically been putting my hands over my ears and going "LALALA" every time I hear anything having to do with the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. "Please," I thought. "Please, whatever you do oh god please don't start acting like a bunch of Black Liberationists. That's exactly what nobody needs right now."

This fellow J. Christian Adams says he was until very recently a voting rights lawyer in the "justice" department, but quit in protest over...oh, let him tell it.

On the day President Obama was elected, armed men wearing the black berets and jackboots of the New Black Panther Party were stationed at the entrance to a polling place in Philadelphia. They brandished a weapon and intimidated voters and poll watchers. After the election, the Justice Department brought a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and those armed thugs. I and other Justice attorneys diligently pursued the case and obtained an entry of default after the defendants ignored the charges. Before a final judgment could be entered in May 2009, our superiors ordered us to dismiss the case.

The New Black Panther case was the simplest and most obvious violation of federal law I saw in my Justice Department career. Because of the corrupt nature of the dismissal, statements falsely characterizing the case and, most of all, indefensible orders for the career attorneys not to comply with lawful subpoenas investigating the dismissal, this month I resigned my position as a Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney.

Now the story of the voter intimidation, the federal case against the Panthers and its abrupt dismissal at the highest levels of the "justice" department has been around a long time, of course, and I'll admit that I didn't believe it could possibly be just primal racism. There had to be a better explanation: Nobody who attains the ranks of President and Attorney General, no matter how corrupt the process, could conceivably be so stupid as to do something like this out of "our turn now" racism. I literally did not have that low an opinion of Obama and Holder.

But unless this guy Adams is just lying about who he is on the pages of the Washington Times, I have to take his word for what went on and accept his interpretation of it:

Citizens would be shocked to learn about the open and pervasive hostility within the Justice Department to bringing civil rights cases against nonwhite defendants on behalf of white victims. Equal enforcement of justice is not a priority of this administration. Open contempt is voiced for these types of cases.

Some of my co-workers argued that the law should not be used against black wrongdoers because of the long history of slavery and segregation. Less charitable individuals called it "payback time." Incredibly, after the case was dismissed, instructions were given that no more cases against racial minorities like the Black Panther case would be brought by the Voting Section.

I don't know; what other spin can you put on that? But when the screaming eventually gets going about things this administration has done, I really, really don't want it to be about race.