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." The guy's an imbecile. But there is no way I will ever submit to undergoing a government re-education...a bit too Kremlinesque to me.
Every single lawyer in this country goes through a character and fitness examination at some point in their bar admission - this "sensitivity" training falls right in line with the fact that you don't have obvious personal characteristics and history that would make you a poor representative of the bar.
Not too Kremlinesque - he is in a position of public trust -hypothetically, if you are a black man going in front of this judge on the Monday after the Saturday night party at which he and his wife went to a costume party as a police officer and an arrested black man or suspect, wouldn't you have cause to pause? This is the worst kind of racism and he should be tossed. He's not worthy of the robe.