Is it discrimination, or is it that blacks happen to be committing the crimes?

There was an interesting article in the newspaper recently about FBI Agent Don Sherman who is in charge of the John Wiley Price investigation. The headline insinuates that his investigations are based on race, yet the article seems to affirm the exact opposite. By all accounts from those who know him well, he is an extremely fair man.

Juanita Wallace of the NAACP doesn't see it that way. She says, "Their [the FBI] primary interest is diluting the political strength of certain people, specifically the blacks and minorities. Just because the FBI is going after you does not mean you're guilty." That's very interesting, Juanita, given that the FBI is an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, and the head of the U.S. Department of Justice is Eric Holder. And the last time I looked, Eric Holder was black. Are you saying, Juanita, that Mr. Holder is a racist?

The author of the article states that "many are troubled that nearly all the elected municipal officials prosecuted for corruption have been black." Has it occurred to "many" that maybe the black ones are being prosecuted because they're the ones that are corrupt? It's not nice to prosecute innocent white people just because there's evidence that a bunch of black ones are committing crimes.

The attorney for John Wiley Price's executive assistant, Dapheny Fain, said, "He presumes criminal conduct and then goes about trying to find it." Perhaps there's a reason he presumes criminal conduct. If you see a group of county employees driving $75,000 cars and living high on the hog, and that same group of employees' names and the names of their relatives and friends keep popping up on the owner lists and boards of companies that are getting lucrative county contracts, I'd say there's probably something rotten in Dallas County. Don Sherman would be shirking his responsibility to the citizens of the United States if he turned his head the other way.

"Agent reviled and revered." The Dallas Morning News; October 9, 2011; p. 1A.