New “civil rights chief” is “shocked” by how few criminal prosecutions were distorted by the prism of race during the previous administration:

The Obama administration’s new civil rights chief said Thursday that he was “shocked” to learn of the steep decline in hate-crime prosecutions during the Bush presidency and vowed to combat violence stemming from hatred and bias.

Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, newly confirmed head of the Justice Department Civil Rights Division, said that 25 hate-crime cases have been filed this year, the largest number since 2001. He produced statistics showing the number of hate-crime cases had peaked at 49 in 1996 had dwindled to 12 in 2006.

Nothing says post-racialism quite like making everything about race.

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