Richard Cebull, chief judge for the U.S. District of Montana, took the nation aback this week by forwarding a set of shared remarks about President Obama.

The judge passed on a racially offensive e-mail message that made jokes inferring that President Barack Obama’s mother had sex with dogs.

The e-mail features a “touching” story of Barack asking his mother why he’s half-White and half-Black.  It concludes with her telling her son that “from all she can remember from that party,” he should be glad that he doesn’t bark.

So, this federal judge who has made decisions impacting the lives of countless people of color, had no problem forwarding an e-mail implying that the President of the United States is of mixed race because his mother was a drunken, sexually promiscuous woman who had sex with dogs.