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Louisiana Interracial Marriage-Refusing Judge Keith Bardwell Quits

BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana justice of the peace who refuses to marry interracial couples resigned Tuesday, after weeks of calls for his ouster from civil rights groups and several public officials, including the governor.

Keith Bardwell quit with a one-sentence statement to Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne: "I do hereby resign the office of Justice of the Peace for the Eighth Ward… » Full Story on Huffington Post

American doesn't want racist bigots in public office. He should have been kicked out.

Good riddance!

posted Nov 3, 2009 |
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The palinista "christian" conservatives should be along any time now to hate on HuffPo and Obama................

posted Nov 3, 2009 |
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The end of another good -old boy's reign. Change! has come to America!. "OB BABY

posted Nov 3, 2009 |
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The small town freak should be prosecuted.

People have asked whether certain civil rights organizations are "relevant", whether in fact, they usually work against the best interests of ordinary Black Americans. I say they are completely useless for any other purpose outside of fund raising for themselves.

Let's forget for a moment the number of innocent Black Men (and White Men) who have been cleared with DNA with the help of the Innocence Project. And let's forget the number of times a minute that Blacks are jailed for "offenses" whites could not pay to get jailed for -- although that is changing I've noticed.

What we have here is a man who, if I understood the articles correctly, he has been serving in that manner for 35 YEARS!!!

"Bardwell was elected in 1975 as justice of the peace in Ponchatoula, La., a town 55 miles north of New Orleans."

posted Nov 3, 2009 |
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he deserves the noble peace prize mmmmmmm mmmmmm mmmm

posted Nov 4, 2009 |
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