One Pill Makes You LargerAnd One Pill Makes You Racist. Go Ask Judge Michelle Odinet.
Please stop taking racist sedatives!
Sit down a spell. We need to discuss Michelle M. Odinet, who was until last week a circuit court judge in Lafayette, Louisiana. She was disqualified by the state Supreme Court on Friday after a video emerged that showed her shouting racial epithets while watching surveillance footage of an attempted burglary at her home. According to the Daily Beast, she seemed to enjoy the show, so her racist heckling was apparently racist heckling of joy.
In the video circulating online, a male voice can be heard saying, "And Mom's yelling n***er, n***er." Then after what appears to be some jovial banter, a female voice is heard saying, "We have a n ***er, It's a n***er, like a roach," while laughing.
The group continues talking back and forth, at one point laughing at someone in the surveillance video tripping and someone else losing their wallet.
Racism aside, "America’s Funniest Home Videos" conclusively proved someone tripping is comedy gold. Misplacing a wallet is more subtle humor, something you’d expect from "Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Butjudge for yourself (ha!) if you have a strong stomach:
This is DISGUSTING! Judge Michelle Odinet is captured on video using racial slurs while reviewing home security footage. People's lives are in HER HANDS on a daily basis. This level of hate & racial bias should not be in our courtrooms! She needs to RESIGN!pic.twitter.com/TVny8kcaUZ
— Ben Crump (@Ben Crump) 1639538580
The impromptu Flannery O’Connor story continued:
Then a male voice is heard saying, "That's my phone where it fell out."
"The dude had a phone on him," a female voice chimes in. "You should have taken his phone and stolen from him, that f**king a**hole."
"Go and get the gun," says another voice. "It's important, very important," says a male voice as the video continues.
If Odinet and I were friends, which we’re not because she’s racist, I might’ve advised her to pull a Dolezal and claim she was Black herself but passing like a Nella Larsen character. Then she could invoke her n-word privileges. It’s a stretch but it’s better than her actual statement, which is just pathetic:
My children and I were the victim of an armed burglary at our home. The police were called, and the assailant was arrested. The incident shook me to my core and my mental state was fragile. I was a wreck and am still unable to sleep. I was given a sedative at the time of the video. I have zero recollection of the video and the disturbing language used during it.
Yes, Odinet was so traumatized, she had to take a fast-acting racist sedative but instead of chilling with Netflix, she watched security footage of the break-in. This is an unconventional psychological treatment: “Hey, why don’t we view this video of your tragic incident and you could try out some MST3K riffs. That’s how you’ll overcome it.”
Odinet insisted that “anyone who knows me and my husband knows this is contrary to the way we live our lives.” That tracks only if everyone in her family took the racist sedative, like it was a pot brownie. Odinet said she was "deeply sorry" and asks for "your forgiveness and understanding," blah, blah, blah, go away racist. Girl, we can HEAR YOU.
Her son, Elijah, who’s allegedly the male voice on the tape, was kicked off the Louisiana State University track and field team. That’s a damn shame.
Seemingly everyone in Louisiana who’s not heavily sedated has asked for Odinet’s resignation. This includes Governor John Bel Edwards, the local NAACP, and the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus. If Odinet suffers from sudden black-out racism, she shouldn’t serve as judge any longer. That condition is both unpredictable and imaginary.
While Odinet takes an unpaid leave of absence that’s likely to become permanent, her replacement is Judge Vanessa Harris, a retired St. Landry Parish assistant district attorney and Opelousas court judge. She is the city’s first Black judge and has no record of losing consciousness and calling white people “roaches."
Meanwhile, New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams has ordered a review of all cases Odinet prosecuted, which go back to the 1990s. The popular conservative dodge is that while an individual might be racist, especially after a sedative, the criminal justice system is fair and balanced. However, systems, like Mitt Romney’s corporations, are people. I’m sure the system will act on this specific individual without taking a closer examination of itself.
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Yes, he really pulled that one out of his ass. But, some very dedicated people are forcing them to come up with some numbers, and are getting them paid off, but it is a slow process. Did you know how they did the re-enfranchising before that? They handled them by individual cases and met once a month and the gov would approve them, if he felt like it. Charlie Christ did it differently he approved mass numbers the most on record.You might enjoy this.
"Florida’s labyrinthine and lengthy clemency process has been assailed for decades as a system designed to keep Black people from voting. But the changes imposed in 2011 made the system dramatically harder.
During Scott’s eight-year tenure, he and the clemency board restored the voting rights of about 3,000 of the more than 30,000 convicted felons who applied, according to the Florida Commission on Offender Review. In contrast, more than 155,000 ex-felons had their right to vote automatically restored during the four years of former Gov. Charlie Crist’s tenure, according to court documents.
TALLAHASSEE — For the past decade, felons in Florida have had to wait at least five years after being released from prison before becoming eligible to have their civil rights restored.
But on Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet, acting as the Board of Executive Clemency, did away with the waiting periods, opening the door for thousands of so-called “returning citizens” to have their rights restored and possibly wiping out a backlog of thousands of other cases awaiting review. The revamped clemency rules also establish an expedited process for felons who have paid all of the legal financial obligations related to their crimes.
The action reversed five- and seven-year waiting periods imposed by the clemency board when it was made up of Gov. Rick Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam. The changes were adopted shortly after the four Republicans took office in 2011.The plan adopted by the board — made up of DeSantis, Moody, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis — will automatically restore civil rights to felons who have paid all court-ordered fines, fees and restitution related to their crimes. They will have to apply to begin the process of rights restoration, but they will not be required to go before the Board of Executive Clemency to have their cases considered.
Under the new rules, indigent felons with outstanding legal financial obligations will be able to apply to have their civil rights, including the right to vote, serve on a jury and run for public office, restored but will have to go before the clemency board, which has the authority to waive court-ordered fees and fines.
But Fried, Florida’s only statewide elected Democrat, said the revamped clemency rules don’t go far enough to help indigent felons, who make up the vast majority of the hundreds of thousands of felons in Florida who have served their time behind bars.
Since taking office in 2019, Fried has pushed DeSantis and other clemency board members to make it easier for felons to have their rights restored. She wants the board to allow felons to sign sworn affidavits attesting that they are indigent to be eligible for “automatic” rights restoration.
The changes approved Wednesday “unfortunately, meets only the bare bones of Amendment 4,” said Fried, who is considering a run against DeSantis next year.
“What about the vast majority who can’t afford the fines, fees, court costs and money that is owed to the government?” she added."
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They don't feel the need to rationalize how awful they are. They feel the need to imagine themselves morally superior to the rest of us benighted souls, who hypocritically refuse to admit we agree with them.