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October 15, 2009

"I Have Piles Of Black Friends"

Today In My Head Asplode: You've heard it by now – a judge in Tangipahoa Parish (that's county for those of you who don't live in Loozianah) has refused to marry a couple because one is white and one … well, isn't. But it's all good, yo (via the AP):

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

Translation: I'm not a racist, I just have a severe case of craniorectal impaction.

And while the offer to use the bathroom is very generous, I don't quite think that's an even trade for letting Judge Bardwell get away with thumbing his nose at the fact that anti-miscgenation has been illegal in the US since 1967.

As long as there are liberals in Louisiana fighting the good fight, there's always people like this waiting in the wings to give the state's rep another pop in the eye. The South may not rise again, but this joker never got that memo.

Posted by The Chinuk at October 15, 2009 03:56 PM