Judge Tim Philpot

Amongst other things, Judge Philpot’s fictional autobiography (Judge Z) is a thinly veiled racist diatribe. It’s instructive to compare it with his earlier work (Fords Wonderful World of Golf) which describes his dysfunctional upbringing at the hands of his Televangelist father Ford Philpot, and has an unmistakable pervading theme of repressed homoeroticism.   The golf-centric book has relatively innocuous racist expressions such as the mocking of ant-apartheid demonstrators who attempt to boycott South African golfers, and even these are balanced by mollifications such as the comically bizarre claim that the young Philpot’s parents abruptly yanked him from a boarding school on catching wind of someone at the establishment uttering the “N” word. In his latest book, the kid gloves are off. The court cases described are rife with patronizing stereotypes of minorities including promiscuous, over-reproducing    African Americans and drugged out Mexican strippers. ...

Judge Tim Philpot has no qualms enjoying Asian hospitality as he preaches to the “Oriental people” during his many trips abroad. At home however, he thinks they don’t care what’s right or wrong and are incapable of understanding the truth. The newspaper article quoted below should raise concerns for any minorities appearing in his courtroom: Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) October 8, 1994 Section: CITY/STATE Edition: FINAL Page: C3 CHALLENGER SAYS PHILPOT MADE RACIST REMARKS BRENDA RIOS, HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER State Sen. Tim Philpot prides himself on a successful record as a civil rights attorney, but his opponent in the 12th District race said Philpot is a hypocrite because of racially offensive statements he made during a 1993 divorce case. A tape of a court case in which Philpot represents a man divorcing his Korean wife shows the Lexington Republican criticizing Asians for being incapable of understanding the truth. "I hate to say this because I will be accu...