Who would have guessed that Alabama Sen. Hank Sanders’ wife would be a race baiter just like her lesser half?

Prominent Selma attorney Faya Rose Toure, the wife of state Sen. Hank Sanders, was convicted Wednesday in Selma Municipal Court of disorderly conduct and failure to obey an order from a police officer.

Municipal Judge Cliff Price ruled she disrupted municipal court in January and willfully refused orders to leave the courtroom. He fined her $250 plus court costs on each charge.

Toure, who is black, said she was disappointed that Selma’s black mayor, James Perkins, appointed a white judge and white prosecutor to handle her case after local officials stepped aside.

Price, a municipal judge in Leeds, said he was troubled by the case, but the testimony showed Toure became overzealous in defending a client in Municipal Court and told the spectators, “This white judge is going to run over this young man. What are you going to do about it?”

“That was inflammatory enough,” Price said.

Toure was arrested Jan. 9 after Municipal Court Judge Valerie Chittom found Toure’s client guilty of public intoxication without the defendant testifying. Toure protested, resulting in a verbal exchange with the judge and police officer Jimmy Crow arresting Toure after she refused the judge’s directions to be quiet and leave the courtroom.

If a white man started crowing about how a black judge was treating whites unfairly it would probably be a major news story and the man would be quickly labeled a racist.

Toure’s “disappointment” about having a white prosecutor and judge hear her case is invidious.  How can this country get beyond race while people like Toure automatically assume that they will receive unfair treatment from others based solely on skin color?

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