Republican Louisiana Judge Resigns, Gets Disqualified, and Has All Cases Reviewed After Racial Slur Caught on Camera


     Who would've guessed except everyone in the entire country? Michelle Odinet, a judge in Lafayette, Louisiana, went viral in December 2021 after being caught on camera joining several guests in her home calling a black suspect in a string of local vehicle break-ins a "n*gger" and saying he was "like a roach." That's some Rwandan Genocide language right there. It's not known how the video was obtained or who recorded it, but the backlash was swift.

     Odinet, a Republican who worked as a DA in Lafayette before being elected to her seat with 57 percent of the vote in November 2020, claimed that she had taken a sedative beforehand and didn't remember the incident in question, the Roseanne Barr excuse. A word of advice: drugs and alcohol don't make you racist; they simply remove or damage the filter that would ordinarily keep you from saying those racist things out loud.

     It's fine to be upset about criminal actions, but when you cease to make it about the crime or even the criminal and start to dehumanize a person because of the color of their skin, that is, without question, racist. After consulting Jesus, who probably should have told her not to be racist in the first place, Odinet resigned her position. She was swiftly disqualified by the Louisiana Supreme Court; even if she hadn't been, she would never have worked as a judge again. This action is going to be her legacy.

     The most important part is that all the cases she tried as a judge and all those she prosecuted as a DA are under review. She showed absolutely zero hesitation in degrading and humiliating a person because of the color of their skin at home. If that is the case, what was she thinking that she wasn't saying while in the DA's office or especially while sitting on the bench?

     Cases like these are more disturbing than even law enforcement racism. The judicial system is supposed to serve to check and balance the actions of not only the executive and legislative branches of government, but of the actions of law enforcement and prosecutors as well as every other person in the nation. Judges are the last line of defense against perversions of justice, and seeing judges pervert justice themselves is, or at least should be, the most unsettling thought to the human mind. 

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