Chief U.S. District Judge sends racially charged email about President Obama

So far not a word about any punishment for this bullshit.

HELENA — Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull on Wednesday admitted to sending a racially charged email about President Barack Obama from his courthouse chambers.

Cebull, of Billings, was nominated by former President George W. Bush and received his commission in 2001 and has served as chief judge for the District of Montana since 2008.

I like the way he admits to the email being racist but HE’S not a racist.

The subject line of the email, which Cebull sent from his official courthouse email address on Feb. 20 at 3:42 p.m., reads: “A MOM’S MEMORY.”

The forwarded text reads as follow:

“Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this. Hope it touches your heart like it did mine.

“A little boy said to his mother; ‘Mommy, how come I’m black and you’re white?’” the email joke reads. “His mother replied, ‘Don’t even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you’re lucky you don’t bark!’”

Cebull admitted Wednesday to sending the email to seven recipients, including his personal email address.

  • Fthybharris

    P.S. this is not even remotely funny.  It is not only racist, but it is also mysogynist.  What is the joke saying about the little boy’s mother?!

  • Fthybharris

    How is it possible to be a federal judge who needs to read and interpret legal documents and case law and not be able to parse out that if you think a racist joke is funny and o.k. to send to friends, then by nature of the act you are, in fact, racist?! 

  • JimmyPete

     What is so disturbing is who sent this out. A little decorum please ,Judge. It shows the bubble the ReTeas live in , from Rush to Fox to lying Chain Mails. This clown has to decide on cases involving the Federal Government and by implication the President. I know a joke’s a joke but give me a break it wasn’t even funny and simply brands His Honor as having no honor, so it goes.

  • http://www.blondetwit.com/ Blondetwit

    How on earth can someone hide behind “a joke”?

    You can fool some of the people all of the time….Republicans

  • flan59

    Yeah, then they say “can’t you take a joke?” They think that if racist remarks are presented as a joke, then it is acceptable. I get those as a woman all the time (sexist jokes) and I am labeled a “feminazi” when I speak out about them. Strong women are bitches while strong men are just strong men.

  • JimmyPete

    Naw, Republicans aren’t racists, this is the Chief Judge of a District Court. I get this crap all the time from my Republican “friends”  then if you call them out on it, they tell you “Hey I always liked James Brown’s Music” and how they haven’t said nigger in thirty years.