Judge sends racially charged email about president

[CuckooTuli]

Don't get me wrong, I can understand thinking, "Well, all right, let's not get hysterical - we've all said shit to a select audience at some point that could have gotten us in trouble if others had heard." Which is true. But mostly I think I agree with Solumina - if someone is in a position of authority, then yes, they should be held to more stringent standards of conduct. This isn't a double-standard, so much as a way in which we demand that these people legitimise the power they have over us, and prove their worthiness of it. It's a form of accountability, and in this case, we can't even say it's an entirely irrelevant or arbitrary one; a judge laughing at racism, then going to work for a system that's known to be biased against non-whites, doesn't strike me as all that harmless.

[Fruitbat]

Sol - disgusts me too but there's not a lot we can do about it. Some folks will be offended and others won't be.

Mind you I think I've heard that joke going around a few years ago, but it was about someone else - maybe another political party or a blonde or someone else.

Well if you guys don't want Obama, you can send him back over here. I think Australia fell in love with him when he was here. God, that man has such charisma and is such a statesman and is so in love with his wife..

Our Prime Minister couldn't keep her hands off him!

[Murder.Of.Crows]

After re-reading the joke I don't see how it was racist. I got the impression it was a "your momma" joke, being that at a party she slept around loosely, which included a dog. Maybe, that's the racist part, comparing a race of people to animals, but I feel like that joke could be used in any context and doesn't really have that certain racist element.