And following up on yesterday's post...
Eric Holder, our Attorney General, was interviewed by ABC news the other day.  He spoke about race relations in America, once again strictly in terms of blacks and whites.  Note this is the head of the US Justice Department.  As such, he is the one who is in charge of those feds who refuse to investigate and effectively prosecute violent crimes against Native American women.  Note also that he instead talked about Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s being asked for ID and the fact that Holder had his car searched when he was in college years ago.  Now, it's not that I think profiling does not happen, as I noted in an earlier post.  It's that people like Holder are guilty of the most heinous racism by failing to acknowledge even the existence of the people they are charged by law to protect, all the while those people are physically brutalized.  If he wants this country to have an honest discussion about race, as he claims, why is he not talking about that?

Within the past few months, I had a woman talk to me about her job as a nurse in a local hospital and her concerns.   She told me about a few young women who have had the courage to go to the hospital after being raped.  If you don't know, men will cut out the back of the girl's jeans after they rape her, so that if she goes to the hospital she is further shamed by having everyone near  and in the hospital know just what happened.  I do know of a case in which a few male relatives, fed up with it all, beat up their relative's rapist.  You will be happy to know, I'm sure, that the feds DID pull out all the stops to prosecute those men, including arranging to quash a drug-dealing warrant out against the rapist (and which was the impetus for his hiding out on the rez to start with). so that he could testify at the men's trial without being worried about being arrested himself.

But Eric Holder is more concerned about a rich Harvard professor.  Where's the hope and change?  Obviously, it's not for women.