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'New Racist' Judge Kicked Off Bench For Racist Remarks About Black Americans

Maybe she'll use this setback to rebrand as Clarence Thomas's clerk!

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goodbye farewell lateral partner moveRacist judges doing and saying racist things is nothing new: There’s the Tennessee judge who was caught jailing Black boys with a fake law for essentially breathing, the Louisiana judge who started yelling slurs because of “allergy medicine,” and who could forget the legal mastermind who penned Dred Scott. But those are all old hat. We’ve been due for a racist judge iOS update — and 2024 has delivered.

“I’m not systemically racist, I’m new racist”? That’s the kind of line you’d only hear from an improv comic riffing off the words “racism” and “Mean Girls.”

There is no real context that makes sense of a judge sharing off-the-cuff disparaging remarks about all Black Americans, but I’m glad that this was caught on tape. Detroit has a sizable Black population and it was only a matter of time before another Black American was unfortunate enough to land before her gavel. Hopefully we can take her at her word when she said that she’s recently racist — sure would be a shame if she’s been back-dooring her prejudice against Blacks over the span of her 13-year career.

Someone should really look in to this not-systemic-just-newly-racist thing; it might be able to partially explain why judges give Black people more jail time on average than their White peers.

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s.  He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who cannot swim, a published author on critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.

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