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From Divorce Court and The People’s Court, just Judge Judy and Judge Mathis have not had to go through a temporary cancellation in their series run before a revival was put in motion. Moreover Sheindlin and Mathis are the only two judges to have been the hosts of their program for their entire run. Therefore Sheindlin is acutally the genre’s longest serving courtroom arbitrator, Greg Mathis is second.
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Bit Bitter
During a January 2018 interview, Judge Mathis claimed that Judy Sheindlin has benefited from a white female privilege. Whereas he doesn’t have the same luxury. Mathis said, “I tried to be like Judge Judy. And she was mean all the time. And then ultimately [my] producers said, ‘Well, no, an older white woman can talk to white folks like that, but a young black man can’t.’ So I learned that lesson early on. White folks love to see black people sing and dance and crack jokes. They do not want you to be too serious and political.”
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