Honestly, the late Jefferson Parish, Louisiana Sheriff Harry Lee - a close personal friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, makes Rev. Jeremiah Wright look like a piker.
Details here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4917694The white-flight suburbs around New Orleans are in many ways worse. During the 1980s, Jefferson Parish sheriff Harry Lee famously ordered special scrutiny for any black people traveling in white sections of the parish. "It's obvious," Lee said, "that two young blacks driving a rinky-dink car in a predominantly white neighborhood? They'll be stopped."
The New Orleans Gambit newspaper reported that 1994, “after two black men died in the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center within one week, Lee faced protests from the black community and responded by withdrawing his officers from a predominantly black neighborhood. ‘To hell with them,’ he'd said. ‘I haven't heard one word of support from one black person.’”
The Gambit also reported in April of this year that in Jefferson Parish officers were found to be using as target practice what critics referred to as “a blatantly racist caricature” of a Black male. Sheriff Lee laughed when presented with the charges. "I'm looking at this thing that people say is offensive," he says. "I've looked at it, I don't find it offensive, and I have no interest in correcting it."
These accusations of “target practice” gained force a few weeks later with the May 31 killing of 16-year-old Antoine Colbert, who was behind the wheel of a stolen pickup truck with two other teens. 110 shots were fired into the truck, killing Colbert and injuring his passengers. In response to criticism from Black ministers over the incident, Lee responded “they can kiss my ass.”
http://minorjive.typepad.com/hungryblues/2005/10/a_little_more_c.htmlNYT on the Clintons connections to Lee, including a fundraiser last year:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20commence.html?_r=1&fta=y&oref=slogin