Why are people so uptight about Michael Richards using racial slurs, especially when the same people mad about it where too busy laughing at Borat.
How many times did Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and dozens of Def Comedy Jam performers rag on the white people in the audience, who weren't heckling, but where just there for the show? I'm not saying this excuses it, but what is worse than what he said in the nightclub is the apologies he has said since.
John Rocker, Mel Gibson and now Michael Richards. Rather than apologies and say, "I'm not a racist." Just say, "Hey, this is still America, damn it! I got mad! "
I've known people who have never said a dirty word and have never opened viewed their dislike toward anyone else, but they say something like "black lady" or "colored person" and all or a sudden, they are labeled a racists. No, they're not. Racism isn't just restricted to WASP. It's everywhere.
A derogatory joke is still a derogatory joke, no matter who is telling it. If a Jewish person tells an anti-Semitic joke, it's still an anti-Semitic joke. I mean can the man who really made D Ali G or whatever the fuck it is call be excused because of his religion.
We shouldn't get mad when a comic who is having a rough night says some angry things. We should get mad and very worried when those angry words turn into angry and violent actions.
Michael Richards doesn't scare me. A lot of other people do.
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