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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: andyrichter on November 20, 2006, 12:11:00 pm
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WOW. :(
http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/20/kramers-racist-tirade-caught-on-tape/ (http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/20/kramers-racist-tirade-caught-on-tape/)
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That was just ugly.
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I've read that it's supposed to be an Andy Kaufman/Borat style of thing, and that if you're offended, then the joke is on you. but... who cares. It's still a rich white guy saying some really ugly shit, and I'm just not seeing the joke there.
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Maybe it's just the fact that I'm a middle class white guy, but after seeing that video, I'm not terribly upset by this. First off, I'd love to hear what "gentle heckling" was being thrown at Richards. Every time I've heard heckling, especially alcohol-fuelled heckling, it's been anything but playful and gentle. Also, at the end of Richards' rant he makes comments about words still having the power to shock and offend, which leads me to believe that he may had a bigger agenda than just race baiting. I never bought into the "it's okay for me to say a word, but not you" practice, and I think that in some part (perhaps completely by accident) Kramer is making us contemplate that. I, as a goyim, could never get away with making the same jokes that Borat, or whatever the hell his real name is, is getting millions for making. That hypocrisy has always bothered me.
PS: Feel free to call me honky or hunky in any replies.
Cheers.
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Looks like the heckler could dish it out but couldn't take it when it was returned.
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Originally posted by chief wiggum:
Maybe it's just the fact that I'm a middle class white guy,
It is.
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SOME people think that a white person using the "n" word is worse than all murders, rapes, and war atrocities combined.
These people are ALWAYS self-righteous middle class white people.
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Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
SOME people think that a white person using the "n" word is worse than all murders, rapes, and war atrocities combined.
These people are ALWAYS self-righteous middle class white people.
Do you have a source for this? Or did you pull it out of your ass?
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Just yesterday I was watching the Trip part I and II and thought he was so funny, the images on the auditions were hilarious. But now, it's a complete different story. Right now I couldn't watch a Seinfeld episode.
I heard he was apologizing today in Letterman, I hope he truly aplogizes.
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That's horrifying. It is true that we really ought to know the context -- was he doing some kind of Sam Kinnison-like psychotic schtick? Because it is possible he was already doing a psycho rant before that incident.
If he wasn't, it looks like he totally went off the deep end. But no matter what, it's very very ugly. The heckler may have been being a dick, but you just don't talk to people like that. No matter what.
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Originally posted by Barcelona:
I heard he was apologizing today in Letterman, I hope he truly aplogizes.
yup (http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/20/richards.epithets.ap/index.html)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Michael Richards said Monday he spewed racial epithets during a stand-up comedy routine because he lost his cool while being heckled and not because he's a bigot.
"For me to be at a comedy club and flip out and say this crap, I'm deeply, deeply sorry," the former "Seinfeld" co-star said during a satellite appearance for David Letterman's "Late Show."
"I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this," Richards said, his tone becoming angry and frustrated as he defended himself in a clip from the show played on CBS before "Late Show" aired Monday night.
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Comic Paul Rodriguez, who was at the club, said he thought Richards' remarks crossed the line.
"Once the word comes out of your mouth and you don't happen to be African-American, then you have a whole lot of explaining," he said. "Freedom of speech has its limitations and I think Michael Richards found those limitations."
Rodriguez, also at the news conference, said: "I kept expecting a punch line. It didn't come."
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Apparently the hecklers referred to him as a "dumb cracker". I suppose that's perfectly fine.
I honestly think he was trying to make a point. I don't really agree with the way he did it, but I can understand why he did it. I really don't think the things he said were out of racism.
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I think he's a moron. If you're going to do stand-up, you need to learn how to deal with being heckled. If you can't deal with being heckled, you need to learn how to shut the hecklers up without looking like a total stooge. He's been in comedy for such a long time, you'd think he'd know better by now, but obviously not. I'm not saying the heckler was right; no idea what happened before the YouTube bits. But I'm really tired of watching famous people act like morons then get all defensive or apologetic when they find out the cameras were rolling. I hope his career is over because he's just proven that he's too dumb to deserve to be successful.
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
Originally posted by Barcelona:
I heard he was apologizing today in Letterman, I hope he truly aplogizes.
yup (http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/20/richards.epithets.ap/index.html)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Michael Richards said Monday he spewed racial epithets during a stand-up comedy routine because he lost his cool while being heckled and not because he's a bigot.
"For me to be at a comedy club and flip out and say this crap, I'm deeply, deeply sorry," the former "Seinfeld" co-star said during a satellite appearance for David Letterman's "Late Show."
"I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this," Richards said, his tone becoming angry and frustrated as he defended himself in a clip from the show played on CBS before "Late Show" aired Monday night.
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Comic Paul Rodriguez, who was at the club, said he thought Richards' remarks crossed the line.
"Once the word comes out of your mouth and you don't happen to be African-American, then you have a whole lot of explaining," he said. "Freedom of speech has its limitations and I think Michael Richards found those limitations."
Rodriguez, also at the news conference, said: "I kept expecting a punch line. It didn't come." [/b]
Further explanation:
Richards -- "I'm Really Busted Up" (http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/20/richards-im-really-busted-up/)
Michael Richards publicly apologized for his racist tirade in an appearance on "The Late Show," but acknowledged that such sentiment had the potential to "come through and fire out of me." He tried to find an awkward parallel between his ugly rant and conflict that has arisen between blacks and whites since Hurricane Katrina.
Looking sallow, drawn, and speaking in halting fragments, Richards explained via satellite from Los Angeles to David Letterman and friend Jerry Seinfeld in New York, that he had lost his temper after some members of the audience interrupted his act and that he "took it badly," unleashing the racist invective that TMZ first aired this morning. He apologized to the people who took "the brunt" of his abuse, saying he was "really busted up," but then went on a strange tangent on race relations, saying he was "concerned about hate and rage" and about a "great deal of disturbance between blacks and whites" after Hurricane Katrina.
Richards did not say whether any other factors contributed to his actions, adding only that he would be doing "personal work" in the aftermath of the incident.
Audience members in the Ed Sullivan Theater, who were watching Richards on a screen, began laughing at Richards at first, thinking that the interview was a comedy skit, until Seinfeld admonished them, saying, "Stop laughing. It's not funny."
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Originally posted by Reod Dai:
Apparently the hecklers referred to him as a "dumb cracker". I suppose that's perfectly fine.
And all along I had thought he was a "dumb sheeny". :D
On the plus side, maybe now he'll qualify for the Blue Collar redneck comedy circuit..? "If you use the 'n' word to refer to hecklers of the Afro -American persuasion, you might be a redneck".
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Originally posted by Surly Bonds:
Originally posted by Reod Dai:
Apparently the hecklers referred to him as a "dumb cracker". I suppose that's perfectly fine.
And all along I had thought he was a "dumb sheeny". :D
On the plus side, maybe now he'll qualify for the Blue Collar redneck comedy circuit..? "If you use the 'n' word to refer to hecklers of the Afro -American persuasion, you might be a redneck". [/b]
very messed up. anyone know what happened to him??
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Originally posted by Alec:
very messed up. anyone know what happened to him??
:)
<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000010NQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt=" - " />
I heard he'll be releasing a CD (http://www.texemarrs.com/codex_magica_black_magic.htm) very soon.
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Originally posted by you be pickup:
He tried to find an awkward parallel between his ugly rant and conflict that has arisen between blacks and whites since Hurricane Katrina.
Once again, we learn why it's often not a good idea to let professional entertainers try to express serious thoughts.
Seriously, there is no excuse for what he did. It looks like he just totally snapped. He should apologize, then STFU for a year or two. Maybe get some anger managment training.
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I am still holding out hope that this drags on for a while with Richards making apologies and excuses and then checking himself into rehab and announcing that he was abused by a priest when he was a child.
The whole thing shows the fine line between tragedy and comedy.
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Hollywood weighs in:
"Thanks, buddy. I owe you one."
-Mel Gibson
"Does he happen to have an underage daughter I can date?"
-Woody Allen
"Racism is disgraceful. What's that? Excuse me? This is your child's bed and I don't live here?"
-Robert Downey, Jr.
"The races need to love one another and wear vials of each others' blood around their necks."
-Angelina Jolie
"I am me."
-Ashlee Simpson
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Kramer in Blackface (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVt6eoKB9sw&eurl)
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As it turns out, the tape picks up when he gets way out of control. Apparently, the folks on the receiving end of the tirade had arrived during the show. A large, diverse group, that apparently while getting settled and placing drink orders got Richards' attention. The first n-bomb was dropped well before anyone said anything to him. A couple of the guys from the audience were on the today show this morning explaining their side.
FWIW and IMHO, this is completely disgusting. I don't agree with use of the n-word by any group of people. Coming from a Jewish guy, or any flavor really, with that sort of hatefulness behind it is no joke. There's no "higher good" behind his comments. He and Gibson deserve each other. I guess if his antics are helping anyone to consider their own bigotries, that's great, but I can't see this as anything other than hate speech. Too bad the KKK won't take him in.
Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
Looks like the heckler could dish it out but couldn't take it when it was returned.
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Hmmm, could this be b/c of all of the murders, rapes, and wars associated with the n-word...ya think?
FWIW, I'm not a self-righteous middle class white person, but I do think the word carries a ton of obviously heavy baggage.
I am a bit righteous...
Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
SOME people think that a white person using the "n" word is worse than all murders, rapes, and war atrocities combined.
These people are ALWAYS self-righteous middle class white people.
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Originally posted by nova_nola:
I'm not a self-righteous middle class white person, but I do think the word carries a ton of obviously heavy baggage.
Words are harmless vibrations of air. Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you. Try shouting words at solid granite. Is there a noticable effect other than your utter foolishness.
Besides, you DO come off sounding highly self righteous.
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People get killed, arrested, beaten up, and otherwise harmed because of words every day. Wars begin because of words. Words are the basic currency of human interaction, and to claim they have no weight or relevance is just ridiculous.
A funny thing about Kramer... remember that Seinfeld episode where they showed them making the "Show About Nothing," with actors playing all the Seinfeld characters... and the actor playing Kramer was a total asshole? Now I wonder whether that was actually modeled on the real Kramer...
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Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
People get killed, arrested, beaten up, and otherwise harmed because of words every day.
That's not because of words. It's because of bad brain chemistry. Do you really think that you could rile the Dalai Lama by hurling epithets?
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Puffs of air, sure. Harmless...are you joking? Have you ever heard of verbal abuse? How about incitement? And have you ever had a broken bone? If you have not, broken bones do tend to hurt.
Fine, I'll be highly self-righteous...laughing. You be...well, I don't know. Who/what are people that scream at granite, think that words don't harm people, and that broken bones don't hurt? You've suggested fool and since you're the expert in this area, I'll blindly agree.
Hey, this self-righteous bit is fun...
Originally posted by Surly Bonds:
Originally posted by nova_nola:
I'm not a self-righteous middle class white person, but I do think the word carries a ton of obviously heavy baggage.
Words are harmless vibrations of air. Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you. Try shouting words at solid granite. Is there a noticable effect other than your utter foolishness.
Besides, you DO come off sounding highly self righteous. [/b]
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Originally posted by nova_nola:
How about incitement?
Could you really incite the Dalai Lama into breaking your bones with verbal abuse?
But I'll bet dollars to donuts I could incite YOU into doing something stupid &/or violent. You're obviously a compleat tool.
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This Just In:
This isn't the 1st time Michael RIchards has a Mel Gibson Like Incident (http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/22/richards-rant-not-the-first-time/)
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Thanks for playing, Surly. Though, I thought I'd get a little more out of you. Knew you'd be easily baited...just so you know, "sticks and stones...broken bones", I understand.
So what's the point of those words you typed? Surely Surly, you are doing the best you can to what? Inflict some damage with your typed puffs of air? For someone who believes words are harmless, I'm surprised at your response. Why bother with an attempt at an insult? "Tool"? Are people really still using that term?
Well, sticks and stones Surly. Just like you so wisely suggested. Sticks and stones. How about you test your theory about words being harmless on someone who thinks you have value? I'm sure you've got a lot of rocks to play with, but try your thoughts on a real live person and see what you and that unfortunate person gets in return.
Really, thanks for playing. Laughing...
I'm off for a bit of a drive and some turkey. You enjoy your crow. Oh, now I'm guessing that you're not going to run off and look up what constitutes "harm" in the dictionary. You probably won't bother to look up "compleat" either, but let me help ya with the spelling Surly, the letter "a" does not belong.
But I'll bet dollars to donuts I could incite YOU into doing something stupid &/or violent. You're obviously a compleat tool. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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Whatta rant! The "lon_nola" person above is clearly a bona fide, card carrying member of the "Sensitivity Thought Police", and doubtless believes OJ is the Rosa Parks of his/her era.
<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/team_dupek/186c57d2.jpg?t=1164400213" alt=" - " />
Perhaps lon_nol could even be a distant relative (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amonW00JEEU) of Michael Richards..?
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NEWS FLASH: Kramer Not Jewish! (http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/searchview.php?id=16838)
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Originally posted by Relaxer:
Do you have a source for this? Or did you pull it out of your ass?
<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/team_dupek/015e3dfa.jpg?t=1164579293" alt=" - " />
*NEW* Michael Richards (Kramer) apologizes on BBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjnm8fzRExc&mode=related&search= (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjnm8fzRExc&mode=related&search=)
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Today a couple of news shows reported that one way Michael Richards will be bowing to all the intense public pressure is to undergo a complex series of sensitivity therapies and encounter sessions to determine and treat the root causes of his deeply seated animosity toward blacks. It struck me as more than a little bit curious that a well known Negro who is also currently hogging the headlines once savagely ripped two whites apart like baked chickens and I haven't heard a peep about his having to take any intensive anger management classes or even attending a couple of hours worth of charm school. It's nice to know the rules and how they apply in this enlightened and progressive society.
Michael Richards, one of the greatest physical comedians ever, is now a guilty, self-hating husk of a man, poised with his mouth open and willing to let the world shit in his piehole for the rest of his life.
This public Jumbotron confession of sins strikes me as highly Orwellian. I truly hope that at the end of his twelve-hour weekly sensitivity sessions, he gets a spine back and lashes out with double ferocity at the rude comedy-club nobodies who wouldn't shut the fuck up while he was trying to perform.
<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/team_dupek/31ead877.jpg?t=1164636754" alt=" - " /> (http://www.jimgoad.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1164042800)
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Originally posted by nova_nola:
Thanks for playing, Surly. Surely Surly, you are doing the best you can to what? Well, sticks and stones Surly.
<img src="http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/images/060425.jpg" alt=" - " />
Stop calling me Shirley!
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I like that the "real" Kramer (who knew the "Seinfeld" show was a documentary?) has come forward to assure us that he is not a racist.
Oh, really? Because my first thought upon hearing about Richards' tirade was what does this say about the New York nobody on whom Richards' "Seinfeld" character was loosely, vaguely, let's face it not at all based except in name only in a ludicrous, farcical sitcom from ten years ago?
What's next? 8X10 autographed glossies of the "real" Soup Nazi for sale, saying, "No soup for you, Michael Richards"?
We're supposed to believe that Richards' racist rant has nothing to do with some inconsequential doofus he's probably never met?
Would unfunny off-putting Paul Mooney get air-time on CNN for any other reason than being black and sorta knowing Richards?
Without racism and its attendant cottage industry would Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton live in mansions?
<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/team_dupek/5b3982fe.jpg?t=1164661824" alt=" - " /> (http://preview.tinyurl.com/yc69ok)
I believe racism is rampant in our culture if we only spend every waking moment sniffing it out and revelling and glorifying in it in a masochistic orgy of self-pity, persecution, litigation and reverse name-calling.
Or, conversely and interestingly, this constant declaiming "I'm so not a racist it isn't funny".
In the grammatically-incorrect words of Chris Rock: "Niggers want credit for shit they supposed to do."
When your stock liberal progressive goes into their stock routine: "I'm the only one who cares about the downtrodden. Everyone but me is a racist, bigot, unevolved, etc."- Do they evince compassion for a group of people? Or are they just using them to take a superior stance to everyone else?
I watched haughty self-important aristocratic rich white British Duchess Madonna proudly proclaim that her two not-so-young white children have readily accepted her newly-purchased Ubangi native boy "without regard for his skin color."
Really? You're raising your kids not to be racists? What do you want, a pat on the back, sweetheart? A Kaballah brownie point?
It's the oh-so-enlightened who need to wear their "tolerance" and "nonjudgmental" accepting natures on their sleeves as a badge of honor who invariably "judge" much like sharks feed.
Would you rather be called a "nigger" or "a horrible evil Negro-hating bad mean despicable Klan-worthy terrible racist awful person"?
<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/team_dupek/c4c389db.jpg?t=1164661879" alt=" - " />
I say we start a purely self-serving billion-dollar industry based on race-baiting, shameless opportunism and exploitation, hysterical recrimination and demonology, fear-mongering and self-righteous zeal. We can call it "the media".
Or, better yet: "show biz".
Kenny Kramer, i.e. the real Kramer, deserves credit for one of the better lines of the week:
"You know what the good news is? Judith Regan is now on a plane to California trying to sign Michael Richards to a book deal: 'If I Were A Racist, Here's What I Would Have Said.'"
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Wow, Barack Obama is left-handed, just like me. I guess he gets my vote for President.
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Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
Wow, Barack Obama is left-handed, just like me. I guess he gets my vote for President.
I could never vote for someone younger than me for President.
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delete (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_wank)
me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgmCBKPHnSY)
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Surly, you certainly seem to be up in arms about this issue...
by the way, it's pretty well known that there is a "real Kramer" who the Kramer character was loosely based. Or at least someone who claims that (http://www.nytix.com/GuidedTours/TVLocationTours/KennyKramer/index.html).
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Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
by the way, it's pretty well known that there is a "real Kramer" who the Kramer character was loosely based.
you don't say?!?
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i'm quite mystified by you, mr surly.
are you in fact a deep-seated racist and conjuring up an intellectual smoke-screen to deflect the issue?
or are you merely frustrated at the non-issue that racism should be, given that it's such a neanderthal belief and citizens of the 21st century should be beyond it?
or, most likely, are you just a lovable above-average connoiseur of local culinary offerings (http://www.birchmere.com/images/BirchmereMenuRev5-4.pdf) taken to ranting?
this is going to keep me awake for a while. small things, small minds...
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
i'm quite mystified by you, mr surly.
are you in fact a deep-seated a racist and conjuring up an intellectual smoke-screen to deflect the issue?
or are you merely frustrated at the non-issue that racism should be, given that it's such a neanderthal belief and citizens of the 21st century should be beyond it?
or, most likely, are you just a lovable above-average connoiseur of local culinary offerings (http://www.birchmere.com/images/BirchmereMenuRev5-4.pdf) taken to ranting?
this is going to keep me awake for a while. small things, small minds...
I find it rather amusing.
BTW, did you click the links, including the one I lifted all of this material from? You don't think I really wrote all of this stuff, do you? It's an old bboard trick that newbies need instruction on from time to time; ripping off other bboards without giving the linkage and pretending that it was yer creation.
Some of the regulars must've realized this by now..?
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has anyone actually met dupek?
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no, but i'd be interested in doing so - group outing? i'd suggest our favorite live music venue in VA for a bite to eat, thus killing two birds with one stone - go to the birchmere to check out the food and dupek :)
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
has anyone actually met dupek?
Do you see me, Toecutter? Do you see me, man? Born with a steering wheel in his hand, he is the Nightrider. Cruising at the speed of fright! I am the Nightrider, and we ain't never coming back! You should see the damage, Bronze! Metal damage, brain damage! I am the Nightrider! I'm a fuel-injected suicide machine. I am a rocker! I am a roller! I am an out-of-controller! I am the Nightrider, baby...and it's me and my Marmaduke, and we ain't never coming back. The Toecutter, he knows who I am. I am the Nightrider! I am the chosen one, the mighty hand of vengeance sent down to strike the unroadworthy! I'm hotter than a rolling dice. Step right up, chum, and watch the kid lay down a rubber road right to freedom!
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During a radio interview many years ago, I heard Jerry Seinfeld describe Richards as the "token Gentile" on the show. That's why I doubted Richards' Jewishness. I figured -- after the Rubenstein comment -- that maybe Richards' father was part Jew, but that doesn't appear to be the case, either.
Oh well... I guess he feels so guilty (http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/11/michael-richards-chosen-by-choice.php) that he feels Jewish.
linky (http://captainoftheussinevitable.ytmnsfw.com/?64479ec141677ed13e72bcab4fdff1a1)
If you really want to hear the dreaded " N " word fly, just wait until that horrible hag Madonna drops dead and her two natural white children go to war with the pet Ubangi over her sizeable estate.
"Well, little Mbutu, Mommy Dearest has died and gone to that Thatched Hut In The Sky. Me and Madonna, Jr. are going to split up Mommy's stacks of useless green paper between us and you can have this big shiny ball of aluminum foil!"
"Ungowa!"*
*Ubangi for "Thanks!"
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i just love how mister "hymie town" himself is now wanting a boycott of seinfeld, though he would never boycott a rapper who would be out on their asses and not in the studio making hypocrite money if it wasn't for that infamous word. and i won't even go into the world of mister "Tawana Brawley."
paul mooney is now boycotting the entire use, alla richard pryor after he went to africa, of the word by everyone.
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Years ago when Seinfeld was new, Cindy Crawford had that tv show on MTV. She interviewed Michael Richards and they meditated and peformed yoga next to his pool. (I remember this why??) I guess he's not so centered now...
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i think just the whole thing shows how little a sense of humour everyone really has and how ultra-sensitive everyone has become.
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Considering the whiny bullshit that has erupted in the wake of Richards's horrifying outburst, I propose a simple solution:
THE "SHUT UP" BOAT
Black Americans who can't shut the fuck up about oppression here will have a simple choice:
1) Shut the fuck up.
2) Get on a boat back to Africa.
We'll need a canoe to accommodate all the takers.
Because...let's face it...blacks here have it better than they do anywhere on Earth.
And I won't shut the fuck up about it.
Let's keep it REAL (http://preview.tinyurl.com/yxen8q), OK?
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They tried that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia) already.
Originally posted by Surly Bonds:
2) Get on a boat back to Africa.
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Originally posted by econo:
They tried that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia) already.
Originally posted by Surly Bonds:
2) Get on a boat back to Africa.
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Yeah, and most found they liked it here better.
Liberia is waiting for you Jesse & Al !!!
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Dear Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton,
Please accept my apology for launching into a racist tirade against two black hecklers at my comedy show. Because I attacked two blacks in particular, I know this means I harbor deep-seated racist feelings about all blacks.
While, in return, I heard words like "f---ing white boy" and "cracker-ass motherf---er", I know those epithets were directed toward me, as an individual, and not at the entire white race.
Again, please accept my deepest apologies.
Michael Richards, aka "Kramer" of "Seinfeld"
Dear Anti-Defamation League,
Once again, please accept my apology for calling Jews "Hymies" and referring to New York City as "Hymie-town." As I said at the time, "Charge it to my head . . . not my heart."
Sincerely, Rev. Jesse Jackson
Dear NAACP, Urban League and Congress of Racial Equality,
Please accept my apology for, during concerts in which I sang my song "Gold Digger", giving whites permission to sing along and use the "n-word." Perhaps Michael Richards attended one of my concerts and left not realizing his license had expired.
Kanye West, hip-hop artist/rapper
Dear Jewish Defense League, Korean-American Grocer Association and Council on American-Islamic Relations,
Please accept my apology for, while serving as a Wal-Mart spokesperson, condemning Jewish, Korean and Arab inner-city merchants for "overcharging" blacks. I also inexcusably said that these merchants sell "stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables." Charge that to my head, not my heart.
Sincerely yours, Andrew Young, former U.N. ambassador for the United States, former mayor of Atlanta and former colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dear Democratic National Committee,
During the recent election cycle, the Republican Party ran a number of blacks -- among them Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele for Senate, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell for governor, and Lynn Swann for governor in Pennsylvania. So please accept my apology for saying Republicans have a "white-boy attitude", which means "I must exclude, denigrate and leave behind."
Sincerely yours, Donna Brazile, former Al Gore 2000 campaign manager
Dear White Community,
Please accept my apology for my statement during the 2002 "Millions For Reparations" rally: "I just might walk up to the nearest white man and say, 'You don't understand this, this is a black thing,' and slap 'em, just for my mental health. If they don't pay us reparations now, we're talking about scorched earth." There goes my head!
Sincerely yours, Charles Barron, New York City councilman
Dear Anti-Defamation League,
Please accept my apology. I lost my temper during my husband's unsuccessful 1974 congressional campaign. Bill's campaign adviser, Paul Fray, and his wife publicly claim that I called Fray a "f---ing Jew bastard." I don't recall this, but assuming I did, what was I thinking? It wasn't my heart.
Sincerely yours, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Dear Jesse Jackson and local Little Rock, Ark., black activist Robert "Say" McIntosh,
Former Arkansas State Trooper Larry Patterson publicly claimed I referred to the two of you as "n--gers." Ditto what Hillary just said.
Sincerely, Former President of the United States Bill Clinton
Dear Ward Connerly and anyone in an interracial relationship,
When you led the successful campaign in California to end race-based preferences, I criticized you, a black man, saying, "He's married a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black." My bad.
Sincerely, Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif.
Dear Republican National Committee,
Please accept my apology for saying, after the Republicans took over Congress in 1994, "It's not 'spic' or 'n--ger' anymore. They say 'let's cut taxes.'" Also, I apologize for, following Katrina, publicly saying, "George Bush is our Bull Connor" --referring to the former Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner, who turned water hoses and dogs on civil rights workers. My head and heart were clashing.
Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., incoming House Ways and Means Committee chairman
Dear Anti-Defamation League and White Community,
Please accept my apologies for calling whites "interlopers" and referring to Jews as "diamond merchants", and, during a conflict between Jews and blacks, saying, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." They were mistakes of the head, not the heart.
Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights activist and former host of "Saturday Night Live"
Dear Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and other minority members of the Bush administration,
Please accept my apology for, while co-hosting a radio show in 2001, calling Bush's minority appointees "Uncle Tom types." I made a mistake of the head, not the heart.
Sincerely yours, Gloria Allred, attorney at law, currently representing the black "victims" of Michael Richards' racist rant
Now, don't we all feel better?
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I was watching "Inside Edition" at work last night and the nyuck-nyucks just keep rolling in on this one...
First, the owner of the Laugh Factory banned the "n" word from the place.
Then, comedian Damon Wayans went on to use the word sixteen times in a 20-minute set.
He said that he didn't want a white man to be the last person to use that word in the Laugh Factory.
He was fined 20 dollars per offense ($320 bucks).
And now...the Great Black Schism is underway.
Luminaries like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jay-Z, Spike Lee, etc are all taking sides on the N-word issue.
It's better than Bloods v. Crips, East Coast Rappers v. West Coast Rappers...
Man, the Soul Train Awards are going to be a HOOT this year...
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i heard that andy dick is all pissed that richards is getting all the press, and is parading the word around his stand up act like it was going out of style.
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Lost Seinfeld episode (http://www.glumbert.com/media/seinfeld)
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/racism.poll/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/racism.poll/index.html)
(CNN) -- Most Americans, white and black, see racism as a lingering problem in the United States, and many say they know people who are racist, according to a new poll.
You've heard of this scourge, this pestilence. You even know a few people - but no one you'd associate with! - who have caught it. Occasionally you find yourself walking down the street, and suddenly you feel a hot, foul wind blow across your delicate face. Is it racism? Jesus, perish the thought!
Did I catch it? You think, wringing your hands.
No, no. I couldn't have. Not me. I couldn't catch racism.
And you walk on, so lost in your thoughts that you don't realize you're sniffling.
But few Americans of either race -- about one out of eight -- consider themselves racist.
"Ha. Ha." You chuckle nervously. "No, no," you say, pulling your sleeves down, hiding your face behind your hand, "it's... it's just a little scratch. Just a cold. Feeling a bit under the weather." And you put your sunglasses on, hoping they didn't see the bags under your eyes. You haven't been sleeping well lately.
And as you walk away, you know, deep down, that you've caught something much worse than the flu, much more insidious than a common sniffle. The adrenaline bursts inside you. Did they see it? Did they see the canker?
And experts say racism has evolved from the days of Jim Crow to the point that people may not even recognize it in themselves.
Racism is truly a silent killer. A disease of the mind, which, like a parasite, numbs its victims as it enters their bodies.
It's symptoms, in the beginning, are nebulous at best. A feeling of fatigue at seeing an illegal Mexican - who, just the night before, floated down the border sewer pipe in a tequila barrel - hanging on the fence of your local Home Depot like a possum. A cramping in the abdomen born from hearing that yet another Asian car maker bumped a good white man off the Ford assembly line. A slight burning itch around the anus when you spot a black man holding hands with a pretty li' (http://www.jimgoad.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1165992830)l white thing, her blonde hair brushing against his sooty skin.
"She looks just like my daughter." You think. "Did he kidnap her? That dirty NIG-"
And you stop yourself with a choke. You're paralyzed with fear. That word, that terrible word, is in there. Spreading, infecting. You can see it there, slowly unfolding, and despite your attempts to stop it, it metastasizes.
N. I. G.
The letters burn into your brain, one by one, forming the deathword. Oh jesus christ please, make it stop!
G. E. R.
There's no mistaking it. You're sick. You're dying from racism.
"We've reached a point that racism is like a virus that has mutated into a new form that we don't recognize," Dovidio said.
And there's no cure.
linky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaeIQMI02pE)