Departmentalism Or Schizolaw?

"Now let me get this straight," he said.  He and the lawyer stood in front of the courthouse.  "If he talked about how he hated black or white or red or yellow or brown people and went out and off'd one, he can't be charged as a racist?"
"Not in criminal court -- that's for criminal cases."
"But ain't  he a racist --"
"If he's charged as a racist he has to stand trial in a civil-rights court --"
" -- and ain't he the same person no matter what court he's tried in?"
"In a sense, yes, but the law is specific, you have to be tried in a civil-rights court if you're charged with a racist killing.  You see, you violated his civil rights when you killed him --"
"But ain't dead dead?  You violated all somebody's rights -- civil and uncivil -- when you killed 'em -- you can't be a lil' dead, you dead or you ain't dead."
"That's true, but we have to be organized, be specific in a democracy -- it's called departmentalism --"
"m-m-m . . ."
"What do you mean 'm-m-m'?"
"I mean I'm gonna start carrying a piece and if one'er these criminal cases comes toward me out here I'm gonna hold civil-rights court right here in the street.  It's called The Ol' Wild West."