Va. Judge Resigns After Racial Remarks

[Khephra]

RICHMOND, Va. -- A Virginia judge has resigned after the disclosure of racially charged remarks he wrote in an Internet chat room, including statements suggesting that blacks have a biological tendency toward violence.

Richmond General District Judge Ralph B. Robertson stepped down after 19 years on the bench. He stopped hearing cases last week and filed for retirement, which is to take effect April 1.

The Richmond Free Press, a weekly newspaper with a predominantly black readership, reported Thursday that Robertson endorsed the notion that "African-Americans are prone to crime and violence because it is in their genes" and agreed with another chat-room writer who said that some minorities are "people who have no regard for sanitation, courtesy, private property, etc."

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"I am not a racist," he wrote, according to the paper. "I am a racialist. The difference being I don't discriminate against an individual, but I do recognize the fact that there are a lot of differences between races which I assume from a biological standpoint is caused by difference in DNA.

"If DNA controls everything else, why shouldn't it cause a difference in ability to learn or play sports or a proclivity for violence?" he wrote.

Robertson, 60, criticized civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as a plagiarist and described Jesse Jackson as "a thief, a liar and a traitor to his own people."


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[movonne]

1. My God can't you wonder about his decisions over the years.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

2. What an ass.

I'm ashamed to live in the same state as this butthead. Of course, I'm ashamed to live in the same state that votes Republican (surprised as hell (and glad all the same) we have a Democratic governor!

[Frances]

3. I used to live in Maryland and thought I was superior to the

people in Virginia.

And then you voted for the gracious Democrat Warner for governor and we elected the Shrub clone Erhlich.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. What did I say just the other day? We need to give shrink tests to every

body involved in criminal justice. You have no business making life and death decisions if you have severe prejudices. That's the end game.

[Pale Blue Dot]

5. He's right about DNA

And as a white male, it scares the hell out of me that I might have some of his.... :scared:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. Is there an asshole gene?

If so, I'm sure they'd find Judge Ralph B. Robertson has it.

[Lugnut]

8. If there isn't

An asshole gene there should be and specially reserved for people like Robertson.

[flamingyouth]

7. Maybe * can put him on the federal bench now

You know, without consulting Congress or anything.