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Judge Suspended For Wearing Blackface To Party
NBC4 TV ^ | December 14, 2004 | A.P.

Posted on 12/14/2004 12:37:40 PM PST by O.C. - Old Cracker

NEW ORLEANS -- The Louisiana Supreme Court has given a judge a six-month suspension for wearing blackface makeup, handcuffs and a jail jumpsuit to a Halloween party.


Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans in Columbia Pictures' White Chicks - 2004

Judge Timothy Ellender will lose all of his pay during the suspension. That totals more than $50,000.

Ellender, who is white, said the costumes worn by him and his wife were meant as a joke. She dressed as a policewoman. And the party's host, Ellender's brother-in-law, was dressed as Buckwheat.

The justices agreed Ellender did not mean to insult blacks. Still, they ordered him to take a sociology course to get "a greater understanding of racial sensitivity."


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackface; doublestandard; judge; politicalcorrectness; sensitive; whitechicks
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What law was broken here?
1 posted on 12/14/2004 12:37:41 PM PST by O.C. - Old Cracker
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
What law was broken here?

Laws? We don't need no stinkin' laws. ;-)

2 posted on 12/14/2004 12:39:37 PM PST by rhombus
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

Dunno ... It must be a copyright law. ;)


3 posted on 12/14/2004 12:43:27 PM PST by G.Mason (The replies by this poster are meant for self amusement only. Read at your own discretion.)
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To: rhombus
I never knew Ted Danson was a sitting jurist on the Louisiana Supreme Court! :)


4 posted on 12/14/2004 12:45:14 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
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To: G.Mason

"Buh-weet sang!"


5 posted on 12/14/2004 12:45:56 PM PST by MoralSense
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

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.


6 posted on 12/14/2004 12:48:47 PM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

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.


7 posted on 12/14/2004 12:50:13 PM PST by Pinetop
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

,,, wasn't he celebrating diversity?


8 posted on 12/14/2004 12:52:51 PM PST by shaggy eel
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

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?


9 posted on 12/14/2004 12:55:50 PM PST by Dante3
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To: MoralSense

"Mookin' pa nub"


10 posted on 12/14/2004 12:56:11 PM PST by Luddite Patent Counsel ("Evil is just plain bad")
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Someday we will be able to stop people like this judge before they even think of committing such crimes against humanity..

;)
11 posted on 12/14/2004 12:56:34 PM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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What law was broken here?

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.

12 posted on 12/14/2004 12:58:46 PM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: Dante3

"So why is Michael Jackson allowed to wear white-face?"

Michael Jackson has rejected his race, his sex and his species.


13 posted on 12/14/2004 1:02:55 PM PST by Spok
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To: joesnuffy

It can't happen soon enough to suit me. I want mind control now!


14 posted on 12/14/2004 1:04:11 PM PST by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

Good grief! Ridiculous!


15 posted on 12/14/2004 1:06:23 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
This happened for Halloween in 2003 in Houma, Louisiana. It took over a year for this conviction and he will have to pay $2100 in court cost. What a waste of time and money.
16 posted on 12/14/2004 1:12:36 PM PST by Texagirl4W (Father, bless the person reading this in whatever it is that You know they are needing this day!)
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What law was broken here?

The law of politics

17 posted on 12/14/2004 1:13:44 PM PST by af_vet_1981
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

This judge any relation to former U.S. Senator Allen Ellender (D-LA)??


18 posted on 12/14/2004 1:15:57 PM PST by slyfoxvirden
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

Anybody here offended, disturbed, inconvenienced, damaged or marginalized by the movie "White Chicks?"


I wasn't...until now.


19 posted on 12/14/2004 1:17:51 PM PST by rightinthemiddle (Free Speech is a Right. Being Wrong is Just Wrong.)
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To: sgtbono2002

Wasn't there a photo circulating around the net of Clinton in an afro wig a few years back? And it genuine, not Photoshopped.


20 posted on 12/14/2004 1:24:19 PM PST by Inspectorette
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