Laws? We don't need no stinkin' laws. ;-)
Dunno ... It must be a copyright law. ;)
Judges dont have rights I guess.. My brother put on a trash bag and wrote White trash on it for Halloween, never found anyone at the party who was offended. But put on blackface or an Afro wig and you are a threat to every black ever born.
Hey, I know a judge in California who passed out t-shirts to his cronies with the slogan "Old Boys Club" and the cartoon of two guys scratching each other's backs. He never disclosed from the bench his close relationship with the recipients of the t-shirts. And, of course, he was never reprimanded. But, his buddies were rewarded with favorable judgments and, in turn, they raised money for his reelection.
,,, wasn't he celebrating diversity?
So why is Michael Jackson allowed to wear white-face? And more than a few other non-white entertainers have gone the route of plastic surgery and bleach jobs to look not just white but Hitler's ideal of Aryan?
Hypersensitivity: It's The Law.
Because somewhere, someone just might wake up one day and choose to be offended by any one of your actions or words.
©2004 21st Century Liberals, P.C.
Good grief! Ridiculous!
The law of politics
This judge any relation to former U.S. Senator Allen Ellender (D-LA)??
Anybody here offended, disturbed, inconvenienced, damaged or marginalized by the movie "White Chicks?"
I wasn't...until now.
December 13. 2004 6:29PM
Houma judge suspended for wearing blackface Halloween costume
By Seth Fox
The Courier
HOUMA -- A white judge from Houma has been suspended for a year without pay for wearing blackface prison garb as a Halloween costume in 2003.
The state Supreme Court issued the reprimand today for state District Judge Timothy Ellender of Houma following a hearing that was held in October. The court deferred six months of the penalty, which means Ellender could return to the bench in six months provided he follow a stipulation that take a racial-sensitivity course at a local college.
A one-year suspension without pay had been recommended by the state Judiciary Commission, which commission investigates allegations of wrongdoing by lawyers and judges and recommends punishment.
The Supreme Court had several options. It could do nothing at all, publicly censure Ellender, impose the recommended suspension or remove him from the bench permanently.
The controversy began last fall when the Judiciary Commission received multiple complaints that Ellender, who is white, showed up to a private Halloween party dressed in a Terrebonne Parish prisoner’s uniform, handcuffs, black facepaint and a black Afro wig.
Ellender testified before the Judiciary Commission that he did not get the reaction he wanted from the costume when he showed up to the party without the black face paint. At the suggestion of his wife’s cousin, who was dressed as the television character Buckwheat, Ellender and his wife put on black makeup. Ellender’s wife dressed as a police officer for the party.
The judge’s actions sparked complaints from the Terrebonne branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. All of the parish’s other district judges later went on record denouncing Ellender’s actions.
Ellender’s attorney testified before the Supreme Court that the black Afro had no racial overtones and that it was simply a clown wig Ellender’s wife found in her closet.
Jerome Boykin, president of the local NAACP, said in October that Ellender has proven he is unfit to stand in judgment of others.
"Hopefully, they’ll remove Judge Ellender from the bench," Boykin said at the time. "That’s what we’ve proposed since day one."
Geez! Next thing you know, folks will start thinking they are free to say whatever they want!
Excuse the heck out of me, but this is indeed outrageous behavior in a judge. They were quite right to suspend him. Ever hear of "judicial temperament?" This idiotic display suggests that Ellender hasn't got any. A judge dumb enough and tasteless enough to wear blackface and prison garb as a joke shouldn't be on the bench anyhow.
There should be no charging someone with an act that was not illegal at the time it was committed.
So he can learn to switch from Pimp 'n Ho to Cholo y Chika?
