Hillary Clinton Says Blacks are "Invisible"

The AP reports:

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, unveiling her agenda to promote civil rights, told an NAACP banquet Saturday that the "scales of justice are seriously out of balance" for black Americans.

"We have had an attorney general who doesn't respect the rule of law or enforce the civil rights laws on the books," she told about 900 people at the annual Freedom Fund Banquet of the Charleston NAACP.

Clinton said too many people are invisible to the nation's leaders.

"You're invisible to the president even when you are on CNN," she said, referring to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina two years ago.

Clinton said her administration would seek to rebuild the Justice Department's traditional role in defending civil rights and to review charges of improper, politically motivated hiring to determine if any laws were broken.

"We have to believe justice is blind in America," she said.

Friday in Los Angeles, Clinton pursued votes with basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson. Last weekend, rival Barack Obama banked $3 million at a fund-raiser at Oprah Winfrey's seaside estate.

Johnson held a fund-raiser for Clinton at his Beverly Hills home Friday night. It was considerably smaller than the lavish event staged by Winfrey.

No word yet on what "enforcing" civil rights laws on the books would mean to Hillary Clinton.