Business…here’s this morning’s AM Jump.
Well, Bush is trying to pass another foolish racist off on the federal bench.  This time, the dude’s name is Leslie Southwick.  Check this here commentary on him.

The 5th Circuit is made up of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. According to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, it is the federal judicial circuit with the highest percentage of minority residents.
So it seems axiomatic that the 5th Circuit does not need a judge who appeared untroubled when a white government employe referred to an African-American co-worker as “a good ole nigger.”
As a member of the Mississippi Court of Appeals, Southwick was in the 5-4 majority that voted to uphold the reinstatement of the white worker.
That was such an egregious decision that it was overturned unanimously — repeat, unanimously — by the Mississippi Supreme Court — repeat, Mississippi.
It’s interesting to note that the state hearing officer in the reinstatement case contended that the patently offensive phrase was used by the white employee as an equivalent of “teacher’s pet.”
Huh?

Yeah buddy.  Two things here.  First, there’s no way in the world anyone is legally entitled to the right to call someone a nigger at work.  None.
But let’s go another step, one that says all that need be said about this Southwick character.  The fact that he could even intimate that “nigger” is akin to “teacher’s pet” says a lot.  By equating those terms, he’s saying that this slur against black people indicates, by definition, subservience.  Further, it’s almost impossible to argue against the notion that Southwick thinks that black subservience is how things should be.
The black “anti-nigger” machine can step up and talk about how horrible the world is all the time.  Feel free, but I don’t think that’s got much to do with this one.  The argument over whether this is ever a friendly term has no place here because it was clearly not used as a friendly term in this case.  Even if it was intended to be used the same way as “teacher’s pet,” it wasn’t nobody’s friendly.
And this is who Dubya wants on the appeals court.  Now, remind me again why people got upset when Kanye West said Bush didn’t care about black people?
Someone with a legal mind is needed…could I get away with kicking someone’s ass at work for saying something like this?  I figure if I asked the dude to repeat himself that I’d establish pre-meditation.  But if I just flew across the table, would I be okay?