October 17, 2009
Here’s What Really Caused Falcon Heene to Puke on Live TV
by Bonehead
With all of the hot air surrounding Falcon Heene, our favorite barfing balloon boy, I wonder how many people missed this disturbing incident in the news Thursday. Seems Keith Bardwell, a white justice of the peace and backward lame ass racist in Tangipahoa Parish in the southeastern part of Louisiana, denied to marry Beth Humphrey and Terence McKay, an interracial couple. Really? I was unaware that it was still 1961 in Louisiana.
Bardwell, known to friends and neighbors as a steaming pile of ignorant human excrement, actually came out and stated the reason why he never officiates the marriage of an interracial couple is due to his concern for the children any said marriage might produce. Huh? Yes, our society has produced some pretty screwed up kids as a result of folks of a different color starting a family.
Here’s just a few underachievers whose very existance was no doubt steered toward a life of misery and woe because mom and dad were black and white.
Thankfully, Louisiana Governor Jindel and other politicians are grabbing themselves some sound bite and camera time by calling for Bardwell’s head. Clearly, he’s broken the law, as a licensed Justice of the Peace is obligated to serve the public in completion of their duties. They can’t decide for themselves who they’d like to serve and who they’d like to deny their civil rights. Plenty of other civil rights organizations are also seeking this idiot out to force his license to be revoked, and perhaps be bitch slapped by an agitated Panda.
This blatant racism is disturbing on many levels. Perhaps a little more disturbing to our Giddy family as ours is an interracial marriage. I’m a light skinned human and my wife is a dark skinned android. Funny thing is, we never give the interracial thing a single thought – we just happen to like each other based on who we are. Oh sure, we find ourselves getting some pretty shitty tables in restaurants, and some suspicious looks at the local Aryan Nation ice cream socials, but we really never think about it. But when you hear stories like this you realize that racism still permeates throughout our society – and we have a long way to go, until small minded fucktards like Bardwell are forever swallowed by their own idiocy.
What a shame too for the disgrace this brings on to the state of Louisiana as well, in that this moron has been allowed to operate as a representative for them. Louisiana has produced the Manning’s, Mahalia Jackson and Fat Tuesday plus, New Orleans is our second favorite city – spending the first week of our interracial marriage there just a couple of weeks before Katrina hit.
Wouldn’t it be nice if this sort of small minded thinking could just be swept away? It won’t, for as long as there’s ignorance there will be prejudice, and they walk hand in hand.
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As an anglo male married to an asian women, I really take offence at how narrow minded the media has been with this story.
The word racist keeps getting used, along with other vile comments against this JOP, but no one seems interested in providing a balanced view on why he acted as he did, and whether he is simply right or wrong.
For instance, he suggests that bi-racial children are disadvantaged in the US, and for this reason he declined to perform the ceremony.
If he is correct, then this is a fair comment, right?
Well, I don’t know for sure what its like in the US, but in Australia bi-racial children are NOT disadvanted. In fact, maybe the opposite could be said.
With my son, I am proud of his bi-racial heritage, and it seems this is a broadly held view in Australia.
Now I disagree with this JOP, but I don’t feel a need to call him ignorant, just because I disagree with him.
I find these kind of arguments to be just as damaging as what others may be accusing this gentleman off.
So please, get off your soap box and treat everyones opinions with some respect. If you cannot bring some reasoning to your argument, then it be best that you say nothing at all.
Hi JStone –
Thank you for reading the article! I appreciate your comments and would like to respond to your concerns.
Please note that this article was originally posted on http://www.boneheadblog.com which is positioned first as a personal/humor site, but is also ripe with the occassional opinionated / sarcastic slant of it’s author (me).
That being said – it was, and remains my opinion that the Justice in this case shirked his duties in denying this marriage due to his own personal view – which is not only illegal in Louisiana and the United States, but, in my opinion, highly unethical. Beyond that (again – “in my opinion”) based on the fact that he chooses to deny blacks and whites the opportunity to marry, racist in the fact he is acting as sole judge and jury in refusing this couple their legal rights as determined by the people of the state and this country.
His denial to perform the marriage of this couple is his opinion and one I strongly disagree with -his actions allowed him the opportunity to stand upon his “soap box” and voice his in a manner I personally find offensive. My website is a personal soap box for me to respond with mine.
J