A Racist Revealed
Is it just me or is anyone else growing weary of all the crocodile tears flowing from Michael Richards? After his now infamous explosion on stage in response to a couple of hecklers, when he projectile-vomited the n-word all over the audience, he is being defended by the likes of his old pal Jerry Seinfeld and his new comrade-in-bigotry, Mel Gibson. Richards himself has uttered a couple of those non-apologies to try to cover up his tracks. Said Richards during his act of contrition aired by Letterman, "The rage - the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room. But you can't - you know it's - I don't - I know blacks could feel - I'm not a racist.
He knows blacks could feel? What the hell kind of a statement is that? Set the hounds on a coon and it will climb the nearest tree in an attempt at throw them off its trail. Richards did the same by trying to take all of us up the tree with him. "Why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation."
Richards can't take me up that tree with him. The "rage" is not in me. I am not a racist. He is. Why doesn't he just admit it? The hounds caught up with him on that stage. They treed him good and proper.
"Between this country and another nation"? That's another one of those WTF statements. Simply put, Richards is a racist, a dyed-in-the-wool bigot who has been publicly found out and is now trying desperately to find a way down from the tree he has blundered up.
Even when a person is pushed to anger, they will only explode in ways that are natural to themselves. In that same nightclub situation, a person who was not a racist might well have been pissed at the hecklers. They might have sworn at them and told them to shut the fuck up, if the "rage" took them that far, but the n-word would never have come out of their mouth. For such a thing to happen, it has to be a part of a person's vocabulary, of their very way of thinking. Then it will indeed explode from them, like it did from Richards.
For Seinfeld to attempt defense of Richards is understandable, I suppose, in the way that an old association can leave you feeling obliged to throw a lifejacket when you see an acquaintance going under for the third time, even if you don't really care. For Mel Gibson to defend him is just to give proof to the old adage of misery loving company.
What I'd really like to know is why the Grand Wizard of the KKK hasn't come forward and defended him. I bet they have secretly offered him membership, but Richards just doesn't want to mention it right now. Turning up to give his other apology on the Reverend Jackson's show in his new robe and hood might not have been the best way to get people believing his supposed remorse over that racist tirade.
He knows blacks could feel? What the hell kind of a statement is that? Set the hounds on a coon and it will climb the nearest tree in an attempt at throw them off its trail. Richards did the same by trying to take all of us up the tree with him. "Why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation."
Richards can't take me up that tree with him. The "rage" is not in me. I am not a racist. He is. Why doesn't he just admit it? The hounds caught up with him on that stage. They treed him good and proper.
"Between this country and another nation"? That's another one of those WTF statements. Simply put, Richards is a racist, a dyed-in-the-wool bigot who has been publicly found out and is now trying desperately to find a way down from the tree he has blundered up.
Even when a person is pushed to anger, they will only explode in ways that are natural to themselves. In that same nightclub situation, a person who was not a racist might well have been pissed at the hecklers. They might have sworn at them and told them to shut the fuck up, if the "rage" took them that far, but the n-word would never have come out of their mouth. For such a thing to happen, it has to be a part of a person's vocabulary, of their very way of thinking. Then it will indeed explode from them, like it did from Richards.
For Seinfeld to attempt defense of Richards is understandable, I suppose, in the way that an old association can leave you feeling obliged to throw a lifejacket when you see an acquaintance going under for the third time, even if you don't really care. For Mel Gibson to defend him is just to give proof to the old adage of misery loving company.
What I'd really like to know is why the Grand Wizard of the KKK hasn't come forward and defended him. I bet they have secretly offered him membership, but Richards just doesn't want to mention it right now. Turning up to give his other apology on the Reverend Jackson's show in his new robe and hood might not have been the best way to get people believing his supposed remorse over that racist tirade.
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But I hear he has done what other celeb types do when they've stepped in it and are up to their necks: he's signed up for therapy, whatever that means, and will most likely come claiming total reform. Same thing Gibson did. I'm not sure if a couple of weeks in therapy can take the racism out of a racist ... but I suppose one should hope ... not for Richards, but for the rest of us.
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