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media question, mild/"positive" racial stereotype 

Serious if potentially problematic question:

How, when, and why did the "black judge who thinks your objection is highly unorthodox, counselor, but will allow it and it had better be going somewhere" become a standard trope? I've seen many parodies of it but never any *source*.

media question, mild/"positive" racial stereotype 

@zebratron2084

tried searching found no definitive source.
was surprised to find the one on the simpsons was modeled on bork and changes skin tones at random in early episodes.

re: media question, mild/"positive" racial stereotype 

@001zlnv Judge Roy Snyder! You know, he could be the one...

re: media question, mild/"positive" racial stereotype 

@zebratron2084

Could be, but I thought I had seen another earlier, though I can find no evidence.

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