The explanation didn't sit well with UH Law Professor Kenneth Lawson, who said, Char (who is not black), was insulting real victims of racial injustice. "The way it came across to me was 'this is how you're supposed to treat black folks like this not me.'" But Lawson says the most disappointing part to him was that Judge Todd Eddins allowed the hearing to continue as it was getting out of control, and that neither the judge or Char's lawyer put a stop to it. "To allow that proceeding to happen as if that man isn't sitting there with blackface on, to me it's reprehensible. I know we don't have a large black population n Hawaii but I wouldn't let a client come in and mock any race."