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=" - " /> 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"?
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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.'"
