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Michael Richards enters a place beyond "fucked"

kramer_dave_112106_FRESH.jpgReally, he just needs to go away. Needed to go away. His edgy moment was approximately 10,000 years ago when he was head writer/producer/whatever for ABC's SNL rip-off "Fridays." His payoff was Seinfeld, but some whores just don't know when to stop. Go away, Michael Richards. You've reminded everyone that most white folks believe their race is supreme, thanks for the epiphany, thanks for the cultural enema, now just shut the fuck up.

Raw Story | Wide range of reactions to Richards tirade from activists, bloggers

According to TMZ.com, which broke the original story of the actor's racial tirade at a comedy club in Los Angeles, Richards last spring "launched into an anti-Semitic rant" after a man in the audience said something to him in the middle of his performance. Richards allegedly screamed, "You fucking Jew, you people are the cause of Jesus dying," before storming off the stage....

Richards on Wednesday contacted the Rev. Al Sharpton and offered an apology, which Sharpton did not accept, according to CNN. "I [told Richards] you need to sit down and deal with this," said Sharpton, per the article. "This is not about accepting an apology, this is about starting a process to really deal with the continual problem of racism in this country."...

Mediastar at "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" writes, "I am so unimpressed with his sorry excuse for an apology. I get so sick and damn tired of celebrities and politicians making ugly, racist, ignorant remarks then coming back with a scripted 'I'm sorry.' What exactly are they sorry about? Sorry they have to apologize? Sorry they're ignorant? Sorry they're stupid?"

UK media correspondent Andrew Gumbel, in an entry at "The Huffington Post," had this to say, from a British point of view:

...[T]here's something about the sheer banality of the mass media pile-on that leaves me distinctly queasy. What does it say about a society, especially one with as bad a racial conscience as the United States, that it feels compelled to say over and over that Richards' repeated use of the n-word was offensive? Could it be that there isn't quite as much unanimity on the matter as everyone would like to pretend?

Posted by Alan on November 23, 2006 12:29 AM |

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Thank you, I couldn't have said it better myself. I am sick of people making up excuses for this "man" (to use the term loosely) I cannot even stand to look at him on TV anymore, and I used to like the show "Seinfeld', but I can no longer, and will no longer watch it. He is a joke, Jerry Seinfeld is a joke as well. Talk about damage control, hmmm.. think it had anything to do with the fact that their antique Seinfeld box set is coming out. UGH.

Posted by: Becca | December 2, 2006 08:19 PM

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