May 20, 2026
UPDATE: White Lawyer Who Used N-Word in Court Gets Off Easy
UPDATE: White Lawyer Who Used N-Word in Court Gets Off Easy
- 6 minutes
Remember the lawyer we covered yesterday utilizing
the N word was held in contempt of court, confronted
outside in that courtroom. Well, he gets off
light. Here it is.
So you don't like saying anything, right? You
gonna call me a bitch? I bet you I bet you
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won't call in front of a black man. Let me help
you. You call a black woman any word, call
me that. No, me I dare you to do it. I swear,
for God, I'll make you taste the ancestors.
Me too. You're a coward. Call that black woman
any word. You're a real coward, man. We'll
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catch you inside. Go right ahead. Go I guarantee
you wouldn't do it in front of me. See, you
talk to black women like that by themselves.
You intimidate black women by themselves. But
a black man, you will open your goddamn mouth.
dare you to say it. I dare you to say it. But
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their hair name is Shaky.
taste the ancestors. That was a classic, original
by the way. Put it up full mass. Here's an
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update. The story we brought you yesterday,
Texas lawyer Michael Phillips, used the N
word in a according to the court, a derisive
manner during arguments outside the jury's
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presence in a child custody case. As noted for
the record. He was held to contempt in direct
contempt of court. He maintained that he was
referencing testimony and evidence during his
argument and did not attend the remarks as a
slur. He also said he apologized immediately
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after making said remarks, which is talking
out of both sides of his mouth, okay? The incident
drew a contempt ruling from Judge Chad Bradshaw,
that is to judge He sentenced Phillips to
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three days in jail and a $500 fine. Both penalties
were suspended. They were suspended on the
condition that Phillips submit written apologies
to the court and to the black attorney on the
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opposing side. We covered this yesterday, Durian,
by June 30th. Black lawyers are underrepresented
in their field. We wanna talk about that quickly.
Black lawyers were 5 % of the profession in
2014, 5 % of the profession in 2024. That's
far less than the percentage of black people
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in the US population, which is 13.7 to 14%.
And in recent data, the number of black law
school applicants has gone down to a historic
low in... modern history, why? Well, many of
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those programs that would be catalyst for law
school affordability or law school access,
they have now been deemed DEI programs and no
longer available, which means the pipeline
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or the access has been entered. Cause and effect
is what that is. Very sad. Senator, uh thoughts
on the update?
I thank you on mute, Senator. Yeah, thank you,
doc. First of all, many thanks to that black
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gentleman who stood up for black women and
let it be known, a black man is in the house
and I double-dog dare you to do it. And t-shirt,
t-shirt, I'll make you taste the ancestors.
is a t-shirt that I would proudly wear. was
cheering because so often black women feel
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alone. want to go back. I want to go to the
great Minister Malcolm X. As a matter of fact,
his birthday was this week on May 19th. I think
he would have been 101 years old. He is timeless.
He was certainly ahead of his time. And unfortunately,
many of the things that he talked about are
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still so relevant today. And I say unfortunately,
because I would like to have thought that this
many years since his birth that we would have
come further. But he once said the most disrespected
person in America is the black woman. The most
unprotected person in America is the black
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woman. The most neglected person in America
is the black woman, Minister Malcolm X. It
was true when he said it is still true today.
And for those who stand up to protect black
women, especially black men, it means so much
more. I mean, we got people who stand up and
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they know it's rotten. But when black men do
it, it just got that special genocide quad
to it. It's just something about it. So. Yeah,
the attorney got off lightly but doctors we
were talking about during the break, the judge
probably already knew this was going to be
in the universe as you said forever, ever, ever,
ever. And just saying, hey, your punishment
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enough because your misdeeds and your ignorance
and anti-blackness is out there forever. And
as you said, his children, grandchildren and
grandchildren's children, if he has any, that
will be out there forever. Yeah, and for those
who may wonder why Why was he approached in
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such a way? Keep in mind, he's held in contempt
for trying to intimidate a black woman utilizing
racism or racial tactics. So he was given
a dose of his own medicine. That's what they
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did, and that was the point. The point was to
show him by experience what it feels like to
be at your job in a professional environment
and to be intimidated. and to feel helpless
and hopeless and by yourself on an island in
the moment of that intimidation. I guarantee
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you it will be that moment that lives in his
mind more so than what happened in that courtroom.
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