Posted on 11/20/2006 7:03:27 AM PST by torchthemummy
Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A. comedy club last Friday, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping, and TMZ has obtained exclusive video of the ugly incident.
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A Chris Rock routine or even a gangsta rap album are not comparable to Michael Richards' tirade. They just aren't. That's not white guilt, just an ability to look at things and call them what they are. Has Louis Farakkhan said things comparable in their offensiveness to what Richards said? Absolutely. Are there black racists who say things just as vile, and are far more serious about it, than Michael Richards? No question. But you've spent a lot of time and effort trying to counterbalance an act of white racism with acts that don't come close to balancing.
Thank you. :)
And then, sometimes, when they can overcompensate no more, it bursts loose in a torrent.
Republicans, not Democrats, fought to free the blacks.
White liberals feel threatened by blacks and have always felt that way. They have concocted a variety of twisted and devious ways of keeping blacks on a short leash, under complete control.
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Exactly what are you implying? Feel free to post an image as your response.
"Do You Know what it Means to Miss New Orleans," first made famous by Louis Armstrong. He nailed it.
Jimmy does great covers in general. He respects the material and doesn't go out of his way to put his own stamp on it. Van Morrison covers usually gall me, but Buffet's "Brown-Eyed Girl" is fantastic. His cover of "Southern Cross" is better than the original. And, much like Willie Nelson (whose "Stardust" is one of my favorite songs), when he takes on an old jazz standard, he generally gets it right.
Right now, you are literally acting like a Parrothead. Squawking, enunciating words but not making sense.
Don't let Buffetfan ruin it for the rest of us. For years, I went to see Buffet, often more than one show, every time he came to town.
WHO WILL NOT WEAR DE REEEBON????
He spent a while doing standup in the '70s, and then went into improv -- in which it's probably harder to keep cool. And he was a regular at The Laugh Factory, which is pretty much the comedy big leagues.
The first thing I thought when I saw the tape (I didnt see the introduction and didnt know it was Richards) was that it was an Andy Kaufman like setup. Im disappointed it wasnt.
Interesting that you would make that comparison -- the most famous incident on the short-lived "Fridays" was when Kaufman broke character and started ranting, and it was Richards he got into a brawl with.
I love Buffet too. I was disappointed to see him hobnobbing with the leftists, but he's an aging, dope-smoking hippie, whatcha gonna do? Was that New Orleans song he played a reference to Katrina?
What a riot!!!
I had to put that clip on my Favorites folder.
"Then you, as a black person, should be telling that to the black people who DO use it toward other blacks AND to the media who think it is just fine, and we should all just understand and accept that, and who also think it's fine and totally PC to disparage white people about their race."
The way I read this, you think a black person is somehow responsible for the thoughts and actions of other blacks? I don't understand that. Most blacks do not use the n* word, or disparage white people. Similarly, most whites do not use the n* word, or disparage black people. There are a few of each race that are blatently racist. Michael Richards is obviously one of them. His tirade was not an attempt at humor, or the use of a racial slur for shock value. It was an hate-filled, racial tirade spoken in anger, and directed at 2 black men. There is nothing that any black man has done, no matter how horrible, that excuses Richard's behavior. He should be held accountable.
I see you're one of the brainwashed who, when the shoe is placed on the other foot, sings a different tune.
If they're not willing to take responsibility for others of their race, then maybe they should quit referring to themselves individually as a member of the "African-American Community" and quit telling white people that we "owe" "them" for the injustice of slavery, even though none of them are or ever have been slaves.
It doesn't matter to me whether my opinion matters to you or not. My "insult" is accurate.
You respond to an honest assessment of your personality based upon your own statements with insults.
Your bigoted "assessment" of what you imagine is my personality (and that of black Americans in general) is the only insult. Your statements defy logic as expressed by anyone who doesn't have the mindset of David Duke. My response was a fitting rejoinder.
You merely continue to demonstrate the accuracy of my assessment.
Au contraire! You, sir, continue to demonstrate that you are an ass.
Back to the main point of what you said.
Any time that you've become angry at someone, (even though according to you, you're not subject to that emotion) it's only because you valued someone's opinion more than what you thought of yourself or of your own opinion?
And yes, you do amuse me.
Michael Richards lost his temper due to being heckled. He admitted as much on Letterman last nite.
According to Gourmet Dan's logic, Kramer valued the opinion of the Black man, more than he valued himself.
Anything related to New Orleans is going to have some Katrina overtones, but nearest I can figure, it's because Bradley was a big jazz fan -- he hosted Jazz at Lincoln Center for a number of years, hung out with the Neville Brothers, and performed with them (as well as with Buffett) a time or two. It may have been a request.
Something that nobody talks about is how when the guy shouted out that Richards only had success on Seinfeld, that really seemed to wound him. "Ohhh, you got me there!" Richards said. That's the only thing about this sorry situation that gives me a modicum of sympathy to him, because IMHO, it shows that all that "Seinfeld Curse" schtuff had gotten to him.
Richards had a career before Seinfeld, but Kramer made him a sitcom icon. There aren't too many actors that could pull that trick more than once: Lucille Ball, Bob Newhart, Ron Howard, Dick Van Dyke, Ted Knight, Bea Arthur, Ted Danson, Don Knotts, Michael J. Fox, and now Julia Louis-Dreyfus spring to mind, with other famous faces like Jason Alexander, Tim Conway, Don Adams, Bob Denver and Richards among those whose follow-up acts flopped time after time.
I never assume that people who were once household names are unhappy because they no longer are. Some are still in show business as producers or directors (Henry Winkler, Ron Howard), some have left it behind for other ventures (for instance, Wayne Rogers of M*A*S*H is a real estate tycoon; Adam-12's Martin Milner is an avocado farmer down near San Diego). So it made me sad when I saw Good Times' Esther Rolle, Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols, and Leave It To Beaver's Jerry Mathers doing commercials for a phone psychic service.
Thank you for providing example of why political correctness sucks.
I was not attempting to be clever. But as you show my faith is a thing that is okay to disrespect in this culture. There are FReepers who will not even type 'God'.
There is a lot of racism in this case that has not been addressed, from the audience members who lashed back with racist slurs to the black activists at the press conference who blamed the Jews in Hollywood, to Paul Rodriguez's defense of further use of the n-word on his stage by black comedians.
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