Nov 20 2006Michael Richards is a racist clown

what a pathetic dumbass. i liked his character on that show....now i hate him :(

MARSHMALLOW IS A USELESS CUNT!

That is really sad to hear that, I thought him rather funny.

Honestly, I hate the word even when it is used between black people. I hate it for the same reason I do when women call one another bitches and ho's.

I think people need to expand their vocabulary and be a little nicer in the world. We could all use a little love.

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Yes, both danielle and the Ferret are correct. (That was an odd sentence !?@)

Shit, this guy is pathetic. Watch seinfeld run for the hills now when asked to defend him.

Racist clown? Try using a less dumbassed term in the future. The headline should read " Michael Richards should learn self control" He got harassed on stage by idiots and they got what was coming to them.

that doesnt suprise me he seemed racist

And now we just need to hear from justme and JustinIgger and the trifecta will be complete! If you held out just a little longer Mr. Fish, you could have run this story tomorrow!!!!

#2 - That's poetry...

Hmm, It's amazing how racist comedy can be. Although he didn't seem any more racist than half the acts on Def Comedy Jam.

Jeez. Imagine if it was a Jew?

Ah the insidious underbelly of free speech...

A suggestion, and to #3's point, perhaps the word should be retired from the language, at least in the vernacular. When you hear it used almost, dare I say, affectionately (which I do almost daily in the virtually cracker-free Atlanta area), it's hard to see what all the fuss is about when it's done by a comedian paid to offend.

Not justifying his classless action, but we have more important people to villify. Like this guy:

http://www.wonked.net/2006/11/10/272/

Oh, one other thing.

He must be a shitty comedien because what person who does stand up comedy can't handle a heckler? i've been in clubs and seen c-list stand up's hand a hecklers ass back to them. If Michael Richards can't even do that what the fuck is he doing trying to do stand up?

Damn, being on one of the best shows ever to this, that's a pretty far fall from grace.

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#8. That's so true! They don't even realize that they're only degrading themselves more and more.

We must have missed the part when he screamed SUGERTITS at them...

Wow...I always thought he was a cool guy. Jesus tap dancing christ, man...

KKKramer

In all fairness, having watched the clip I'd have to say the guy in the audience, was, in fact, acting like a nigger.

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Man, oh, man...the way Kramer went off on those black guys. The viciousness of his comments is what's sticking with me. I mean, a fork...where? Oh my Lord! But we've all said stupid stuff while drunk (was he? I hope to God he was...at least he could blame his tirade partially on that. And what did the black guys say to start this whole thing? Anyway, I'm ready to forgive Kramer once he sincerely apologizes on camera. Besides, not all these commenters were even born back when I was enjoying watching Michael Richards on the comedy show called Fridays, racing around the dirt with his toy trucks like an 8-year-old. Be forgiven, Michael, be healed of whatever is causing this hatred, and be blessed in Jesus' holy Name.

Sorry, doubt it. I don't think he could come back from this.

I'm a little too young to remember Friday's, but I've seen clips as it being the "other thing he did" besides Seinfeld.

I'm convinced this will be the nail in the coffin of an already dead career.

Nice blue writing. How do you do that?

Its fuckin hilarious what one of the guys says to him. He says that guy hasn't done shit since Seinfeld and never will, he owned him.

malcom x, martin luther king jr., medgar evers, and countless others died so that black men could make asses of themselves interrupting and heckling comedians. really, if you act like one, people are going to call you one...

#5- Are you serious? Please tell me you're joking. Because if that wasn't a joke, you are a racist idiot.

Ooooohhh! Smell that, kids? It's Mikey's career going down in smoke and flames. Hope he's getting residuals from Sienfeld, cause he's not going to make it as a standup comic..

I see that I need to put on my Blue Blockers.

#24 Alas, there are lots of folks like that on these posts.

p.s. I love your screen name.....Meow!

I've read comments from other sites and it sickens me that people are actually defending this moron.

Not that I'm surprised, really, but I'm not sure how heckling is a pass to yell out racist shit to someone. So the guys were rude, right? They were a couple of pricks who were heckling a comedian. Big fucking deal. How does that somehow connect to making a comment about lynching and saying "nigger" ten times? I don't get how race or ethnicity had anything to do with them heckling him, seriously.

And who gives a fuck if he was drunk? How does that excuse him? I sure as fuck don't start calling black people "niggers" when I'm drunk and pissed off.

Sorry, this is just ridiculous. ::implodes::

#11

Exactly. Anyone whose worked their way up through the dregs of comedy clubs or been in a band knows how to handle two things: hecklers and flying beer bottles.

He and Mel Gibson should hang out.

#20 He was also in UHF--the Weird Al movie. He played a doofy janitor. I think that was before Seinfeld, though.

I prefer Mel Gibson to Kramer way more as far as bigots go.

#23- Soooo... does that mean that you can spit racial slurs at a white person when they heckle someone? Does that mean that whenever someone is bothering you or saying things to you that you don't like it is okay to spew racial slurs at them. Racial slurs are NEVER justified. Period.

#28 I agree no matter how drunk you are or how pissed off you get there are just some words that should never be used.

I'm disturbed that just because hes a "comedian", and they were heckling him he can get away with it. When people are rude you don't them "niggers" because they are black. and Lets not forget he just said they would basically have been lynched 50 years ago...oh yeah this guy is a real winner...

#31: No, no, I think what #23 meant was that only BLACK people heckle and, therefore, they got what was coming...because, you know, when a black person heckles a comedian, they deserve to be called a "nigger."

Right.

THAT'S BLUE WRITING!! THAT'S GODDAMNED BLUE WRITING! STICK A FORK IN IT AND CALL MY CAREER DONE BUT I THINK THAT IS FUCKING BLUE WRITING!!

Go Kitty!

Yeah, i prefer Mel as well.

It's weird how I'm not black and I was really offended by this. LOL

SERENITY NOW!!!

So, let me get this straight. NONE of you have ever called sworn at ANY other demographic?
Michael Richards may need to pick his battles based on the fact that he's attempting to insult a culture that is it's own worst enemy.
His improve skills may need a little work if all he has to comment on is the color of someones skin maybe?

somewhere mel gibson is clapping like a school girl at a timberlake show. this is WAY more over the top than gibson. this asshat had the nerve to refer to lynching people.

he is the saddest comedian known to man. but at the same time, i'm glad he's shown his true colors. i would never spend a dime on enhancing his career. he obviously has no talent.

and considering how dark he is and how nappy his hair is, he might want to be quiet before his background is investigated and we find out buckwheat was banging his mom.

What's up with those Seinfeld alumni (other than Jerry)? I thought they were each pulling in a million per during the last couple of seasons. They must have either pissed it away or really have a need to be in the spotlight. Every one of them failed in their own shows, and (other than Julia Louis-Dreyfus) they're all still out there pitching and failing.

If I ever had a golden goose like they had I'd have milked it dry while socking away every shekle I ever got paid, and then retired to an island with no U.S. tax obligations. Maybe take a second or third lead in a movie every and then to pay the maintenance fees on my off-shore bank account.

As for Kramer, sounds like he was bombing, lost it, and tried to go the shock comedy route and, (unlike Gilbert Gottfried and The Aristocrats joke at the Hugh Hefner roast), he flopped. BFD - seeing Britney out and about is more offensive.

#33. Your a dumbass.

Right.

BLACK WHITE GREEN BLUE...all just colors, which one are you? hmmmmmmm.

I wonder if this will hurt the sales of the Seinfeld DVD's that have yet to be released (season 7,8,9.)

(you're) whoops :)

Now we know how 'Newman' felt.
And he forgot to say, " Good night folks ! Drive safe. I'm here all week." Unprofessional all around.

I don't respond to people who don't know the difference between a word signifying possession and a contraction.

you corrected yourself too late, bastard. :D

The man was on UHF and Kramer was well, Kramer. It is truly sad to see this, hecklers are pieces of shit anywhere (doesn't matter their race) however, Michael lost his shit up there.

truly sad

I wonder how long until he enters 'rehab'... though he could just go here: http://www.thespinzone.com/tuopoc_cert.php
and be back to performing next week

#48 - he performed the very next night at the Laugh Factory. :(

Man, Richards comes off as really frustrated and defeated there. With royalties pouring in, he sure doesn't need the money, wonder why he is putting himself through shit like that. That was a lose/lose proposition for everyone there.

Just find it convenient that they start the clip when he's beginning to rage and spew things, not letting us in on exactly to what degree they were heckling him...

Maybe he was on something, maybe he's manic, whatever... If they were being idiots though, screw them; I have no sympathy.

This isn't a class act, but I can forgive the guy. To say none of us have had hateful thoughts towards other races would be a lie anyway for all of us, right? Just because we have the ability to control ourselves...

I just don't think it's fair to dismiss the guy entirely because of this act, as some racist loon or what have you. If it would have been a bunch of trashy white guys he railed on with similar (but non-race related) terms, we wouldn't even have seen this.

And no, I don't have a poster of Hitler in my bedroom.

#38 - yes I am sure we all have cursed out a person of a different race. The point is we most likely used a term like bitch, dickhead, asshole, etc. which are all race friendly.

#46. (no need 4 the name calling hun.) simple mistake. i thought you were calling people names but you were simply translating what a dumbass posted on the thread. don't get your panties in a bunch :)

SWEET!!

I am being Double-Trolled! Does that count as a Menage-a-trois? (Or would it be menage-a-troll?)

He probably hates black men for the usual reason -- Here it is---

Your woman fucked a black man with a juicy gigantic cock and screamed all night long and could barely walk the next day. With you she just laid there, eyes shut saying "Will you hurry up and Come?!!"

I dunno... mixed views on my part.... is he a sad human being .. yes.. Did he go to far... yes.... needs help? yes......

But Richard Pryor, martin and the rest are living in big houses for using the word whitey, cracka, honkey and hundreds of others.....

Why when a white guy uses the N word is is SOOOOOO wrong.... sure it wasnt right but when is Honkey going to be known as the H word?

I dunno.. Career over? Nah..... Did he make an ass out of himself... sure did.....

Hey one thing he has going for him..... wasnt filmed fucking Lindsey or Paris..... he cant be that much of a loser......

What I don't get is the upside-down-with-a-fork remark. Didn't he mean to say "swinging from a tree limb"?

I mean, at least get your racist violence right the first time. Everybody knows that upside down with a fork in the ass is for the Latvians. And ONLY the Latvians. Crimony.

I blame Borat.

#24: don't worry about James... he is just a racist dickhead who has no education and needs to vent. Ignore him.

Danielle - I use the word "bastard" as a form of endearment.

Seriously.

And, just so you know, I don't wear any panties, so ha! :D

(gotcha) :)

Re: ImaCracka----

it's one thing to call someone a name. everybody does it or has done it at some time. it's another thing all together to refer to LYNCHING a person. the difference? one is an insult the other is a loosely veiled threat of violence.

the focus shouldn't be on "name calling". it's one thing to say " you're a greedy jew" it's another to say jews make the best kindling. see the difference?

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Hey Holistic Wisdom, your love is spreading thru the Fish, it seems.

Hey, shut your trap. I'm in a loving mood today.

I saw a Dave Chapelle show here in CA. People were randomly yelling "I'm Rick James, Bitch!" He couldn't take it. It was only about 7 people in an auditorium of 2,500. He cussed them out and walked off stage. I agreed that those people were assholes, but he needed to handle it better for the rest of us that paid $50 a seat.

Of course, that was before he burned his last brain cells out and disappeared.

Shut my trap? careful Darlin

Don't mind me. I speak in paradox.

Am I the only human in America who never thought Kramer was that funny? I didn't hate him, just didn't think he was the shit. And clearly, he hasn't gotten any better.

RE hecklers: I never saw the point of heckling and I think people who do it are stupid, but there's a way to handle a heckler and a way NOT to. I think we all know the way NOT to now, thanks to Used-to-Be Kramer. No matter what the black guys said, not sure how it could be worse than how he responded. Why didn't he just talk about raping their mamas and selling off their children to other slaveowners while he was it? WTF, he had nothing to lose at that point. Hell, he might get a lot of southern comedy club appearances out of it. He might be the keynote speaker at the next big Klan shindig.

I don't get the fork reference, either, and I'm from cracker-ass Oklahoma. We don't fork our black people down here. Maybe it's a yankee thing.

#67 I see.....

#49 - Well that's because his publicist was outta town and hadn't heard about it yet ;)

#70: good theory! I bet he thinks Richards is a jackass now, too.

Cant watch. I'm scared.

Jeez I gotta admit that was downright scary..he seemed like a demon possessed then used calm words to educate the audience then explodes again.. damn.

I giggled in horror..

So what. Those in attendance have no right to verbally interrupt performers. Richards obviously just lost it. It does not mean he is a racist. He just found a way to offend someone that was interrupting his work. You can so all sorts of things to offend people. You may call a woman a slut or a cum bucket, that does not mean you entirely hate women, it just means you know how to hurt someone. So get over it.

#71, I mean if it were Paris Hilton, Elliot her publicist has absolutely no life so he's available at 3am in the morning but that's because she's a train wreck who needs constant damage control...
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This was really surprising to hear especially since Seinfeld featured black people so prominently during its run.

24 and you call me a racist when I didn't say one racial slur. You are a fucking moron. Just another stupid whore.

he only said what everyone thinks.. or what I think anyway.

C'MON. It's COSMO KRAMER. HE WAS KIDDING

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Kramer vs. Karma!

this was a rather bizarre outburst. it is sheer idiocy and/or intoxication to say things like that (a) in public, (b) to a large crowd all watching you, and (c) while being videotaped. if he was going for an edgy joke, he seemed to have forgotten the punchline. if not, well, i guess the beloved actor who played "Kramer", one of the most popular characters in TV history, is racist. while racism is just patently stupid, i really don't think this will hurt DVD sales, as per #42. Walt Disney was a card-carrying Nazi who funnelled money to the Third Reich during WWII, and people keep going to disneyland...

I'm black and I think it's sad and pathetic when people let a stupid weird cause SO much damage!

It is extremely silly!

While it might be offensive, the fact that it makes front page news when a white person calls a black person a nigger is just utterly absurd to me. Why when I see other blacks call whites "Honkey, Cracker, or White Bread" does it go completely unnoticed? Why the double standard?

If my poor fellow blacks AND whites for that matter let silly little words hold them back or upset them, then we will all never truely be equal.

A long time ago as a teen, I finally came to grips with all the stupid name calling and likened someone calling me a nigger to calling me a butthead. It is honestly just immature and sophmorish! That's it! Nothing else!

It's a word people! Take offense, but don't let it have any power! Seriously!

Maybe the NAACP should come out and make a statement, you know the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Not the advancement of people, just colored people. That’s not racist at all. Get over yourselves. The guy wanted to offend someone that was messing up his art, his carrer, his night.

Wow. How sad.

P.S. A white Washington DC city official had to resign because he used the word "niggardly", which means miserly, when talking to fellow black city officials about fiscal matters!

Are you fucking kidding me?

Now those were some dumb Niggers!

What he was saying was not just an insult on the hecklers, but to the black race as a whole. And there are many more ways to deal with hecklers then to insult a entire race of people.

86. There are several ways to offend people. If an entire race is offended by that, then they have a problem. Richards had one target, the heckler, if any one else gets caught in the cross fire, thats their problem.

Peace Out Nigga's

Didn’t see what took place before the taping began... (HOW CONVENIENT)... MAYBE the niggers in the balcony were calling him white-racist names? ... Don't really care anyway... he DIDN'T make 1 untrue statement... If a darky got uppity 50 years ago, he most probably would have gotten hung!!! that's just a true fact... Thank goodness that doesn't happen anymore !?!?! ... anyway, blacks are usually SO EXTRA benevolent and civil in today’s American society ...

This is some of the funniest stuff Richards has done in years!!! Real gorilla comedy - i.e. Lenny Bruce, Pryor, Kaufman... MOST of you are such PC, cool aid drinking, robotic, idiots, that you're missing it, it flew right over your fat liberal heads...

Peace Out Nigga's

#74, thats funny you should say that he JUST happend to "lose it" and all of us should "get over it". Maybe black people would get over it if other people (like Mike) would stop bringing it up all the time. Lets be serious...even though slavery happend years ago, it'll never be forgotten.
And you can't compare calling a woman a "cum bucket" to calling a random black guy a nigger.

Yo, Peace Out Nigga!

And to all you Honky Ass Crackas, I'm Rich Bitch!

Just like Nigger is an immature word, remember the key word here people, it's a WORD!

And just like mommy told you when you were little, "Stick and stone may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!"

Grow up you fucking skirts, stop whining, and do something productive!

Wow. You mean you actually took the time out from cutting eye holes in your white sheets to respond? I'm impressed. Oh- and you actually believe that not using the N-word means you're not a racist. How cute.I'm not even gonna bother. Just shut your filthy mouth, okay honey? Thanks!

74. and all others who say
...well it's okay if your mad and use racial slurs, we're human, we've all done it..what about Pryor and Def Comedy..."

you see the word "Nigger" basically TOPS the list of what racial slur not to say....not other word stirs up this much controversy as thisand no number of rap songs and "terms of endearment usage" can change the negative effect it has on people...the word's history cuts far too deep

so yes the hecklers were out of line..but that was NO WAY to handle the situation mad or not.

That was in response to #77 by the way...

#90, You're a fucking moron!

I'm black and I think calling anyone a name is offensive, but none should be more offensive than another!

You must have the mindset that you can bash Christians, but you can't bash Muslims because they'll take offense!

Either it's all okay, or none of it is okay!

#92 was in response to #77 by the way...

90. How about I call someone a faggot, Does that mean I have a problem with gay people. What if I just "lost it". What If I just want to offend someone?

Hey, remember when Jessie Jackson referred to NY as hymietown town. He wasn't even attacking someone, he was making a general statement to offend an entire city. How do you feel about that?

#93, one question, WHY?

Your complete neglect of every other incident and atrocity done in the name of race, religion, or ethnicity is just ignorant!

One word can NOT and should NOT trump other words, EVER! And to give that word so much power is idiotic!

Get over it!

Who really cares what this guy says. As a black guy , I have other things to worry about(paying my mortage). I am not surprised. I wonder if this guy is Jewish? Some of the best comedians have been either of black or Jewish heritage. He is not funny not in the least. INEXPERIENCED-NOT FUNNY. It is interesting; if someone made reference to Jews and the gas chamber, wouldn't it be just as horrific. If you are heckled (2) things: stop; or call security.
Racial slurs are no justification, not funny. Only a fool could justify it.

89 you're SO out of line.
there IS a double standard in using racial slurs in comedy bits and in the real world as well. AND what Richards was doing WAS NOT comedy, he was just bitter and mad.

the truth is a white man is going to get a hail storm of criticism and complaints for using the word because he will never know how it feels to be called one, no term compares to the word.

wow, i love how it's conveniently ignored that those guys were screaming "cracka-ass-cracka" and "honkey" at him. so those racist slurs are no big deal but nigger is "uncalled for".

please.

but oh well, michael richards should at least have the satisfaction of knowing that not too long ago he would've owned those guys. literally.

btw racism will never die. black people make too much money off of it to let it.

98. Because seriously it does hold that much power...it sucks that it does...but it's caused deaths, started riots, tears, and anger.

And i'm not forgetting about and other religious and ethnic horror in the worlds history.And there are other words that hurt for sure. but this word. what this word has done to people. you can't deminish what it means because there is still blatant racism even though there's no slavery and hey blacks use it it must be getting better, it's not.look at that teen group Prussian Blue.or "Niggaspace.com". leveled out maybe but not progressed.

#98 is 100% right. How is calling a black guy a "nigger" any worse than calling a Jew a "kike" or a Mexican a "spic," and so on?

#97, Everytime I hear that, I think of Eddie Murphy on SNL, singing as Jessie Jackson. "Don't let me down, Hymie-town." LMOA!

Shit...LMAO...too much beer.

I think #100 nailed it, it would be interesting if a white comedian could pull off an Eminem and do racial material without offending but this wasn't that, this was just Richards pissed off.

#103, hahahahaha that Murphy bit was AND still is da shit.

NAACP (The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), The United Negro College Fund: Whities Need Not Apply.

Can I just take a moment to mention the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where Larry David attempts to be 'affable' upon meeting Richard Lewis' black doctor for the first time? "You mean you let him treat you, with affirmative action and everything?" Now, THAT"S some awkwardly funny faux-racist shit. Michael Richards ceased to be funny when he ceased to have writers feeding him ideas.

If any of you live in the Los Angeles area I highly recommend visiting the 'Tunnel of Tolerance' at the Museum of Tolerance. We went on a field trip there back when I was in high school and we spent as much time as we could in that tunnel. A speaker would blast racist / ethnic / sexist / anti-semetic etc, slurs out from the walls while standing in the dark as night tunnel. There must have been 30 of us at any given time crammed in there. That was some funny shit.

What Richards should have said was: If you dont like the show why dont you tighten up your Timberlands and walk back to your Escalade.

He forgot to call the guy "sugar tits".

I am a huge fan of Michael Richards. I refuse to let people define him by this on loss of self control.

so black people are aloud to call us anything they want. a cracker a honky. people say chink or paki. but nigger, OH NO a white person called a black person a nigger. get over yourselves and lighten up. its stupid when people get offended so easily, little babies, wahhh..

its sounds like he doesnt like black people to much, but im sure he has a reason. i hate certain races, and i have my damn reasons

Tolerance Museums are just never that cool. We have a new ( architecturally stunning) Freedom Center museum in Cincinnati. Where do you think they built it? Right down in the heart of the fucking ghetto, because, you know, poor black women with 8 kids and no baby daddies in the picture LOVE to get historical information about how they got where they are. They have both the time and the money. I have been there twice, and the only black people I saw were serving drinks.

I give it another year before it becomes downtown Cincinnati's first Wal-Mart.

And yes, I had just moved here when we had the very entertaining Race Riots of 2001. The cops here are terrifying-and I moved here from NYC.

#55, That seems to be a pet obsession with you. Were you molested as a child?

#113 off the top of my head I'm gonna guess that one of the reasons is that you're an asshole, another might be that you are uneducated, and also an inbred.

113 - interesting. so you hate "certain raceS" which means you hate the only other two races besides the caucasian race, I'm assuming?

Ignorance, folks. It's a killer!

LOL @95. I'm a fuckin idiot, huh? Okay, we'll being a BLACK WOMEN, I can certainly say that I'd be more offended if someone called me a nigger than if someone called me a slut or cum bucket. And you, being a black dude so you say, think they are both "equally" offensive, huh? Well, no offense but eat me, k?

Next up...97, calling "someone" a faggot is not gonna offend a person anymore than a gay person calling a straight person calling a staright person ignorant or homophobic. And I can relate...my sisters gay and she doesn't take it personal. Let me back that up by saying it depends on the person...and what they are going through. The word nigger has history. It offends everyone...even those who are not black. So don't lose you cool under pressure. This could've been handled better.

#117- see your one of those pathetic people who cant take things lightly. how bout not care so much. and what does imbread have anything to do with that whole topic

#118- which i mean is, theres different nationalities, same thing to me. theres more then 3 nationalities on this earth, mmkay?

120 - just so you know, a race is not the same as a nationality. In fact, they almost have no correlation.

Why do I even bother? ::throws a ball of yarn::

Here's what white privilege sounds like:

I am sitting in my University of Texas office, talking to a very bright and very conservative white student about affirmative action in college admissions, which he opposes and I support.

The student says he wants a level playing field with no unearned advantages for anyone. I ask him whether he thinks that in the United States being white has advantages. Have either of us, I ask, ever benefited from being white in a world run mostly by white people? Yes, he concedes, there is something real and tangible we could call white privilege.

So, if we live in a world of white privilege--unearned white privilege--how does that affect your notion of a level playing field? I ask.

He paused for a moment and said, "That really doesn't matter."

That statement, I suggested to him, reveals the ultimate white privilege: the privilege to acknowledge you have unearned privilege but ignore what it means.

That exchange led me to rethink the way I talk about race and racism with students. It drove home to me the importance of confronting the dirty secret that we white people carry around with us everyday: In a world of white privilege, some of what we have is unearned. I think much of both the fear and anger that comes up around discussions of affirmative action has its roots in that secret. So these days, my goal is to talk openly and honestly about white supremacy and white privilege.

White privilege, like any social phenomenon, is complex. In a white supremacist culture, all white people have privilege, whether or not they are overtly racist themselves. There are general patterns, but such privilege plays out differently depending on context and other aspects of one's identity (in my case, being male gives me other kinds of privilege). Rather than try to tell others how white privilege has played out in their lives, I talk about how it has affected me.

I am as white as white gets in this country. I am of northern European heritage and I was raised in North Dakota, one of the whitest states in the country. I grew up in a virtually all-white world surrounded by racism, both personal and institutional. Because I didn't live near a reservation, I didn't even have exposure to the state's only numerically significant non-white population, American Indians.

I have struggled to resist that racist training and the ongoing racism of my culture. I like to think I have changed, even though I routinely trip over the lingering effects of that internalized racism and the institutional racism around me. But no matter how much I "fix" myself, one thing never changes--I walk through the world with white privilege.

What does that mean? Perhaps most importantly, when I seek admission to a university, apply for a job, or hunt for an apartment, I don't look threatening. Almost all of the people evaluating me for those things look like me--they are white. They see in me a reflection of themselves, and in a racist world that is an advantage. I smile. I am white. I am one of them. I am not dangerous. Even when I voice critical opinions, I am cut some slack. After all, I'm white.

My flaws also are more easily forgiven because I am white. Some complain that affirmative action has meant the university is saddled with mediocre minority professors. I have no doubt there are minority faculty who are mediocre, though I don't know very many. As Henry Louis Gates Jr. once pointed out, if affirmative action policies were in place for the next hundred years, it's possible that at the end of that time the university could have as many mediocre minority professors as it has mediocre white professors. That isn't meant as an insult to anyone, but is a simple observation that white privilege has meant that scores of second-rate white professors have slid through the system because their flaws were overlooked out of solidarity based on race, as well as on gender, class and ideology.

Some people resist the assertions that the United States is still a bitterly racist society and that the racism has real effects on real people. But white folks have long cut other white folks a break. I know, because I am one of them.

I am not a genius--as I like to say, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I have been teaching full-time for six years, and I've published a reasonable amount of scholarship. Some of it is the unexceptional stuff one churns out to get tenure, and some of it, I would argue, actually is worth reading. I work hard, and I like to think that I'm a fairly decent teacher. Every once in awhile, I leave my office at the end of the day feeling like I really accomplished something. When I cash my paycheck, I don't feel guilty.

But, all that said, I know I did not get where I am by merit alone. I benefited from, among other things, white privilege. That doesn't mean that I don't deserve my job, or that if I weren't white I would never have gotten the job. It means simply that all through my life, I have soaked up benefits for being white. I grew up in fertile farm country taken by force from non-white indigenous people. I was educated in a well-funded, virtually all-white public school system in which I learned that white people like me made this country great. There I also was taught a variety of skills, including how to take standardized tests written by and for white people.

All my life I have been hired for jobs by white people. I was accepted for graduate school by white people. And I was hired for a teaching position at the predominantly white University of Texas, which had a white president, in a college headed by a white dean and in a department with a white chairman that at the time had one non-white tenured professor.

There certainly is individual variation in experience. Some white people have had it easier than me, probably because they came from wealthy families that gave them even more privilege. Some white people have had it tougher than me because they came from poorer families. White women face discrimination I will never know. But, in the end, white people all have drawn on white privilege somewhere in their lives.

Like anyone, I have overcome certain hardships in my life. I have worked hard to get where I am, and I work hard to stay there. But to feel good about myself and my work, I do not have to believe that "merit," as defined by white people in a white country, alone got me here. I can acknowledge that in addition to all that hard work, I got a significant boost from white privilege, which continues to protect me every day of my life from certain hardships.

At one time in my life, I would not have been able to say that, because I needed to believe that my success in life was due solely to my individual talent and effort. I saw myself as the heroic American, the rugged individualist. I was so deeply seduced by the culture's mythology that I couldn't see the fear that was binding me to those myths. Like all white Americans, I was living with the fear that maybe I didn't really deserve my success, that maybe luck and privilege had more to do with it than brains and hard work. I was afraid I wasn't heroic or rugged, that I wasn't special.

I let go of some of that fear when I realized that, indeed, I wasn't special, but that I was still me. What I do well, I still can take pride in, even when I know that the rules under which I work in are stacked in my benefit. I believe that until we let go of the fiction that people have complete control over their fate--that we can will ourselves to be anything we choose--then we will live with that fear. Yes, we should all dream big and pursue our dreams and not let anyone or anything stop us. But we all are the product both of what we will ourselves to be and what the society in which we live lets us be.

White privilege is not something I get to decide whether or not I want to keep. Every time I walk into a store at the same time as a black man and the security guard follows him and leaves me alone to shop, I am benefiting from white privilege. There is not space here to list all the ways in which white privilege plays out in our daily lives, but it is clear that I will carry this privilege with me until the day white supremacy is erased from this society.

Frankly, I don't think I will live to see that day; I am realistic about the scope of the task. However, I continue to have hope, to believe in the creative power of human beings to engage the world honestly and act morally. A first step for white people, I think, is to not be afraid to admit that we have benefited from white privilege. It doesn't mean we are frauds who have no claim to our success. It means we face a choice about what we do with our success.

#119-I've read your post three times (why?), and it makes less sense now than it did 3 minutes ago.

Next up...Fourth Grade Spelling, Contractions, and Grammar!

Don't lose your cool, don't take it personally! (see how I did that, with the comma and the spelling?)

If your trying to hand someone his ass, make sure to proofread, darling.

"Now I'm going to get arrested for calling a black man a nigger".

Policeman: "No sir, you're being arrested for being a pathetic buffon."

To those who think that was funny, you deserve to be pitied.

There really is nothing like racism to drive the posts up over 100 in record-time.

113...wow you have ure reason for hating entire races of people?
yeah...I'm sure EVERY single person in that race has personally saught to destroy your life
(rolling my eyes)

121...thank you

wonderful post, jrzmommy. wonderful.

And, 123: great post, too, but you also seemed to have misused "your" while correcting that moron's grammar. :/

::ducks::

Being someone who was walking out of her old office one day many years ago in Times Square trying to wade through the annoying, touristy, hillbilly MTV kiddies to get a fucking sandwich and was called a White Slut Whore for NO REASON by the lovely "Black Isrealites" who like to preach hate against the white man because we're white, I say free speeech is better than no speech at all. If one kind can do it against another, so can someone else.

While I don't necessarily agree with what Kramer, he has every right to preach about it if that's the fucked up way he feels. He's probably also pissed off at the total PC state we're inundated with by all the libtards of the world who claim free speech, unless it goes against their agenda. Now if he actually took a fork to said black man's anus, I say string him up & watch him bleed, but he does have the right to communicate whatever the fuck he feels. Just like the Black Isrealites do. In the middle of Times Square.

(When I say string him up & watch him bleed, I mean Kramer, not the darkie.)

Didn’t see what took place before the taping began... (HOW CONVENIENT)... MAYBE the niggers in the balcony were calling him white-racist names? ... Don't really care anyway... he DIDN'T make 1 untrue statement... If a darky got uppity 50 years ago, he most probably would have gotten hung!!! that's just a true fact... Thank goodness that doesn't happen anymore !?!?! ... anyway, blacks are usually SO EXTRA benevolent and civil in today’s American society ...

This is some of the funniest stuff Richards has done in years!!! Real gorilla comedy - i.e. Lenny Bruce, Pryor, Kaufman... MOST of you are such PC, cool aid drinking, robotic, idiots, that you're missing it, it flew right over your fat liberal heads...

michael richard's? what an ordinary name for such an animated man....

So let's see...Mel Gibson racially slurs against Jews and everyone says 'Oh leave him alone,' and here everyone is in a tangle? Of course this dumbass was wrong but you can't pick sides- either get upset at any racial slurs or none of [b]them[/b].

#100

NO sweet cheeks, I’m NOT out of line... you’re just an idiot is all... it’s obvious you know NOTHING about comedy... LOOK back at Kaufman’s stand-up for example, he actively/routinely tried to turn he’s audience against him by saying the most outrageous insulting things he could think of to them... he wanted the back lash and hatred, he made fun of the crippled... etc-etc... Richards may have been trying to push the envelope here ?!? Most highly creative or brilliant people, after going through the same old shtick routine for so long, feel they have to break new ground... Everyone try’s new ways, idea’s, methods... maybe this was his way !?!?! I’m not saying he is in the same league as the greats, I don’t know... but I do know that he didn’t misstate or lie about anything he said... OPEN you LOCKED-UP fatheaded mind and listen again... who knows, if try real hard you might even get it...

PEACE OUT NIGGA

Here's what white privilege sounds like:

I am sitting in my University of Texas office, talking to a very bright and very conservative white student about affirmative action in college admissions, which he opposes and I support.

The student says he wants a level playing field with no unearned advantages for anyone. I ask him whether he thinks that in the United States being white has advantages. Have either of us, I ask, ever benefited from being white in a world run mostly by white people? Yes, he concedes, there is something real and tangible we could call white privilege.

So, if we live in a world of white privilege--unearned white privilege--how does that affect your notion of a level playing field? I ask.

He paused for a moment and said, "That really doesn't matter."

That statement, I suggested to him, reveals the ultimate white privilege: the privilege to acknowledge you have unearned privilege but ignore what it means.

That exchange led me to rethink the way I talk about race and racism with students. It drove home to me the importance of confronting the dirty secret that we white people carry around with us everyday: In a world of white privilege, some of what we have is unearned. I think much of both the fear and anger that comes up around discussions of affirmative action has its roots in that secret. So these days, my goal is to talk openly and honestly about white supremacy and white privilege.

White privilege, like any social phenomenon, is complex. In a white supremacist culture, all white people have privilege, whether or not they are overtly racist themselves. There are general patterns, but such privilege plays out differently depending on context and other aspects of one's identity (in my case, being male gives me other kinds of privilege). Rather than try to tell others how white privilege has played out in their lives, I talk about how it has affected me.

I am as white as white gets in this country. I am of northern European heritage and I was raised in North Dakota, one of the whitest states in the country. I grew up in a virtually all-white world surrounded by racism, both personal and institutional. Because I didn't live near a reservation, I didn't even have exposure to the state's only numerically significant non-white population, American Indians.

I have struggled to resist that racist training and the ongoing racism of my culture. I like to think I have changed, even though I routinely trip over the lingering effects of that internalized racism and the institutional racism around me. But no matter how much I "fix" myself, one thing never changes--I walk through the world with white privilege.

What does that mean? Perhaps most importantly, when I seek admission to a university, apply for a job, or hunt for an apartment, I don't look threatening. Almost all of the people evaluating me for those things look like me--they are white. They see in me a reflection of themselves, and in a racist world that is an advantage. I smile. I am white. I am one of them. I am not dangerous. Even when I voice critical opinions, I am cut some slack. After all, I'm white.

My flaws also are more easily forgiven because I am white. Some complain that affirmative action has meant the university is saddled with mediocre minority professors. I have no doubt there are minority faculty who are mediocre, though I don't know very many. As Henry Louis Gates Jr. once pointed out, if affirmative action policies were in place for the next hundred years, it's possible that at the end of that time the university could have as many mediocre minority professors as it has mediocre white professors. That isn't meant as an insult to anyone, but is a simple observation that white privilege has meant that scores of second-rate white professors have slid through the system because their flaws were overlooked out of solidarity based on race, as well as on gender, class and ideology.

Some people resist the assertions that the United States is still a bitterly racist society and that the racism has real effects on real people. But white folks have long cut other white folks a break. I know, because I am one of them.

I am not a genius--as I like to say, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I have been teaching full-time for six years, and I've published a reasonable amount of scholarship. Some of it is the unexceptional stuff one churns out to get tenure, and some of it, I would argue, actually is worth reading. I work hard, and I like to think that I'm a fairly decent teacher. Every once in awhile, I leave my office at the end of the day feeling like I really accomplished something. When I cash my paycheck, I don't feel guilty.

But, all that said, I know I did not get where I am by merit alone. I benefited from, among other things, white privilege. That doesn't mean that I don't deserve my job, or that if I weren't white I would never have gotten the job. It means simply that all through my life, I have soaked up benefits for being white. I grew up in fertile farm country taken by force from non-white indigenous people. I was educated in a well-funded, virtually all-white public school system in which I learned that white people like me made this country great. There I also was taught a variety of skills, including how to take standardized tests written by and for white people.

All my life I have been hired for jobs by white people. I was accepted for graduate school by white people. And I was hired for a teaching position at the predominantly white University of Texas, which had a white president, in a college headed by a white dean and in a department with a white chairman that at the time had one non-white tenured professor.

There certainly is individual variation in experience. Some white people have had it easier than me, probably because they came from wealthy families that gave them even more privilege. Some white people have had it tougher than me because they came from poorer families. White women face discrimination I will never know. But, in the end, white people all have drawn on white privilege somewhere in their lives.

Like anyone, I have overcome certain hardships in my life. I have worked hard to get where I am, and I work hard to stay there. But to feel good about myself and my work, I do not have to believe that "merit," as defined by white people in a white country, alone got me here. I can acknowledge that in addition to all that hard work, I got a significant boost from white privilege, which continues to protect me every day of my life from certain hardships.

At one time in my life, I would not have been able to say that, because I needed to believe that my success in life was due solely to my individual talent and effort. I saw myself as the heroic American, the rugged individualist. I was so deeply seduced by the culture's mythology that I couldn't see the fear that was binding me to those myths. Like all white Americans, I was living with the fear that maybe I didn't really deserve my success, that maybe luck and privilege had more to do with it than brains and hard work. I was afraid I wasn't heroic or rugged, that I wasn't special.

I let go of some of that fear when I realized that, indeed, I wasn't special, but that I was still me. What I do well, I still can take pride in, even when I know that the rules under which I work in are stacked in my benefit. I believe that until we let go of the fiction that people have complete control over their fate--that we can will ourselves to be anything we choose--then we will live with that fear. Yes, we should all dream big and pursue our dreams and not let anyone or anything stop us. But we all are the product both of what we will ourselves to be and what the society in which we live lets us be.

White privilege is not something I get to decide whether or not I want to keep. Every time I walk into a store at the same time as a black man and the security guard follows him and leaves me alone to shop, I am benefiting from white privilege. There is not space here to list all the ways in which white privilege plays out in our daily lives, but it is clear that I will carry this privilege with me until the day white supremacy is erased from this society.

Frankly, I don't think I will live to see that day; I am realistic about the scope of the task. However, I continue to have hope, to believe in the creative power of human beings to engage the world honestly and act morally. A first step for white people, I think, is to not be afraid to admit that we have benefited from white privilege. It doesn't mean we are frauds who have no claim to our success. It means we face a choice about what we do with our success.

jrzmommy...that was so truthful. I can't even explain how much I agree with that. Its so upsetting that this is how it is, so to speak.

Jizzrmommy, I was going to ask you to attibute your source, but who the hell would believe that you teach at the University of Texas. Really.

Attribute! A-T-T-R-I-B-U-T-E!

jrz, that made my brain hurt the same way time travel movies do.

Robert Jensen, U of T Professor

normella: Indeed I did. Damn, what's worse than trying to be a smartie-pants and making a stupid mistake? Now I know how Republicans must feel.

I'm waiting to hear justme's response. Could this article be a reflection of TWB? Goodness me!

mrs. t - LOL!

Oh Michael Richards, you silly bitch. How I love you.

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/freelance/whiteprivilege.htm

that was for 136

Oh Jesus, here we go with the Kaufman/Bruce/Carlin comparisons already.

Look, if THAT was Richards's schtick, he would have been saying such things in his act for years. Don't confuse good edgy humor with a c-list pseudocelebrity's tantrum over someone in the audience talking shit about him. Dude was probably making jokes about the futility of coffee filters or some dumb shit before they started calling him out on not being funny, and THEN he decides to push the envelope?

I know comedy. Spoiled-ass "Kramer"'s rant was not comedy. It was the pussification of comedy trying to hide behind the "pushing the envelope" trend.

The problem here is that they cut him off before the punchline. Which was:

"The Aristocrats"!!!!!!!!!

It is not the color of the skin, it is what the color of skin represents in behavior and personal experience.

I grew up in an area where busing occurred and it ruined the schools, the neighborhoods, the county and more.

It wasn't because the kids were black, it was because of their behavior, attitude, and because they hated white people.

That area today has one of the nations highest homicide rate and poorest school systems. Thank you Brown Vs Board of Education!

RE 114 and 115. Posted by mrs.t on November 20, 2006 4:06 PM: Right on, for the most part. I'm not saying museums shouldn't document racial intolerance, but putting a "tolerance museum" in the shittiest part of town pretty much nullifies the whole thing. Politicians love to throw money at crap like museums because they can say they created jobs and get their pictures taken in front of them to pretend they care about art and/or tolerance. We have a "women's museum" here (Dallas). It's in Fair Park. Not the best part of town (especially at night), and not really convenient either, so no one goes except when the fair's going on, and even then, I'd bet they don't get that much traffic.

And word to Jrzmommy's very long post, too.

Used-to-Be Kramer wasn't striking a blow for free speech, he was just being an asshole. An unfunny asshole. Aren't comics/performers supposed to know how to handle hecklers? Even if the black heckler is sitting there saying bad shit about your mother, you're the one with the microphone. In the age of You Tube, you'd think a little heckling wouldn't make someone come unhinged like that, if for no other reason than because you don't want it circling the globe within the hour. And then to pretend it's some sort of Richard Pryor or Dave Chapelle-like confronting of racism by being racist yourself to show how stupid it is.... right. I'm sure that's how Richards' management is spinning it, but nobody's buying it. Any minute now, I expect Richards to announce that he's checking into some center for help in dealing with his substance abuse problem.

#118 "so you hate "certain races" which means you hate the only other two races besides the caucasian race." Which only two other races? Blacks? Hispanics? Arabs? Asians? Native Americans? Indians? I'm confused.

That AOL shit never works for me. Anybody got a Youtube link to this? I just checked but am getting just old shit. It's gotta be out there.

PLEASE!

I'll keep checking back here...

#146

NO, you DON'T know comedy... In fact- I don't think you know comedy at all... because if you did know comedy, then comedy would tell you that I'm COMPLETELY RIGHT and you and people like "SumLikeitHoTT" are completely WRONG...and also that you are both POO-POO-HEADS...XOXOXOX ...
PEACE OUT NIGGA...

133.
146 is right on point here,
it's not like that's his thing, he would have used the word long before this show...don't use other's performances as an excuse for his behavior.
and clearly you and a handful of people were the only ones who found it funny, because the media, most of the people on this board, and the audience didn't get it.

Its all about reference and experience not skin color. What color were the people interrupting his set? He was doing a set. The man was working and he lost it. He really lost it. He's an actor not a stand up comedian. The audience members kept bringing it. Richards is not a racist and to hell w/Jamie Masada from the laugh factory and even Jerry Seinfeld for not simply defending the fact that Richards clearly had a breakdown. He should not be defined as a racist.

148: Socioeconomic status is an indicator for social interaction as well.

"There's a lot of reasons why there are enormous wealth gaps between minorities and whites in America. The most simple answer is, it takes money to make money. Part of the reason that there's this enormous gap is because whites have long had higher wages and wealth to pass on from generation to generation. And it's like a snowball - it gets bigger and bigger as it gets passed on, and the interest gets compounded. That's partly the reason why the wealth gap has actually increased since the 1960s, since the civil rights times.

But that's not the whole story. There's a long history of exclusion of minorities from wealth accumulation in America, going back to right after the Civil War.

First of all, during slavery, slaves were forbidden legally in most cases from owning anything, including their own bodies. After the Civil War, Jim Crow laws instituted policies such as the Black Codes, which required black entrepreneurs to pay, for example, a $100 licensing fee but required whites to pay nothing. Back in 1870, $100 was basically like a million dollars today. It would shut people out of business. So blacks in the 19th century through that mechanism, and through pure terror, threats of lynching, were precluded from becoming business owners, as one example.

By the 20th century, you had the institution of redlining as a policy in which banks rated neighborhoods for loans based on a four-tier system, red being the lowest ranking that a neighborhood could get. And African American neighborhoods were invariably given this red circle around them, and no loans from private banks would go into that system. That was a policy that was initiated by the federal government and adopted by private lenders.

Fast forward to the New Deal, when Roosevelt really cut a devil's deal with white southern senators. He didn't overtly exclude blacks from Social Security, but subtly did it by excluding agricultural workers and domestic workers, who were predominantly minorities, from receiving Social Security benefits. This was done explicitly to appease southern Senators, to exclude African Americans, who were disproportionately employed in those two sectors. It wasn't until the Truman Administration that that got corrected. But there's a whole generation of elderly African Americans that didn't receive Social Security benefits, when in fact, it was the biggest giveaway of all, because no one had paid into the system yet.

So you had whites receiving this sort of windfall, and blacks not getting it. More poor black elderly not receiving Social Security means that working families in the African American community have to support them and pay for it. So it's not only an issue of that generation. It trickles down through issues of inheritance and having to support the aged.

Fast forward again to after World War II when you have two separate American housing policies. You have this really pro home ownership policy where the government guaranteed low-interest loans for whites in suburban America and helped them obtain wealth. And for minorities you get rental, large-scale, inner-city public housing, which of course is a wealth destruction policy.

In the 1960s there were occasional efforts to foster minority asset accumulation, but they really focused on things like financial skills, and community benefit which was, by definition, nonprofit. These efforts really didn't focus on rectifying the enormous wealth inequalities that had grown up to that point.

Until we correct the fundamental wealth inequalities, these little programs of financial education and other sorts of cultural issues aren't going to make much of a difference, because the underlying economic structure is still unequal.

I also would like to mention, by the way, that savings rates are the same for blacks and whites. That's a common stereotype, you know, of why these gaps exist - the idea that white people save more. And the data show that's simply not true."

WTF is it okay for black comedians to stand on stage and rag on white people, let alone use the n-word, but a white guy does it and its a fucking crime??

Anyone who can't see that Richards albeit in a clunky way was trying to be funny is just too stupid.

155. Shut up. Please just shut up. I mean GOD Damn!

156.
yes actually it is considered okay for everyone who is not white to rag on white people and for whites to just take it...welcome to the double standard
it's just how it has worked out

after all no one wants to pull the slavery/ segregation cards up

I assume you would not be so excited about being bussed in or anything else if you worked just as hard if not harder than others and were still traditionally and systematically financially stripped, 148. Of course Brown v Board didn't work. And it never will until racism stops and those affected are given a chance to benefit from some of that thousand year old white privilege.

155. I handled mortgage loans for blacks and found that they do not save but rather have accumulated wealth through the govt. TSP as govt. employees. Many were also waiting for law suit settlements from "accidents" so they could gather their wealth. Most however, had large expensive cars and little or no funds in the bank. But thats ok, because the govt is not getting any smaller, and their jobs are secure.

Im sorry for dropping to this level but I have too much first hand experience on a large scale to simply let you get away w/ your b.s.

Poor FutremanWalken can't stand the truth of the effect of his actions. I would call it TWB but it would just be too hypocritical. Go read a history book, kid. Where in the world is justme?

Poor FutremanWalken can't stand the truth of the effect of his actions. I would call it TWB but it would just be too hypocritical. Go read a history book, kid. Where in the world is justme?

159. Its that most young blacks view education as a white thing so they fight it. And as a matter of fact my wife was bused into a black area school, and the treatment and notes she received from male 2nd graders would put what Richards said to shame!

160, see little note above about the typical white microcosm. Why is it okay for you to live off of the government and the free enforced labor of minorities not to mention your general white privilege pass to get ahead, but it's not okay for minorities to do the same for themselves. Whites have been doing it for thousands of years. Ever heard of colonialism? Get a clue. You're so socially unaware. Why not actually read the paragraphs above and check the stats about government welfare programs for whites that allow you to sit on your fat ass in front of your computer and post messages right now. You must be kidding.

That was pure TNB and he was just calling a spade a spade. Negroes use that word all the time, so what if a white man uses it to call TNB?

First of all Im not fat. That does offend me (lol). This will be my last posting and possibly my last visit to the site. I will not read your next posting as I will sign off right after sending this. So go ahead and type away.

Each black generation just like yourself loves to reference the past. The teachings of black adults to their young is what keeps blacks racist views of whites alive. Do your race and yourslef a favor and EVOLVE and join us in the present!

first of all: he should have been able to handle hecklers. they were being rude, but that doesn't mean he should have acted equally immature and exploded like that. whether or not you want to believe he's racist, his passionate tirade would indicate some deeply felt convictions. he probably surprised himself, but with a temper like that i'm surprised he's been around so long. it's not about being pc - it's about treating other people like humans.

second of all: black comedians use racism all the time. women use sexism. sacha baron cohen uses anti-semitism. it can be done in the right way, and it can be funny. it isn't necessarily "right", but a huge part of comedy is its irreverence, it's un-PCness. but what richards did is not the same. it's comparable to saying something like "back in the day i could have raped you and sold you to a brothel" to a woman or "50 years ago we would have put your ass in the oven" to a jew. that's not comedy, and that's not ok.

third of all: free speech is one of the most important privileges we have in this country. BUT, that doesn't mean racism is acceptable. making generalizations about or demonizing another race or culture/ethnicity is completely ignorant and small-minded, no matter who you are. the best thing to do when you experience it is to be an adult about it, not to respond in kind.

#153
At what point he started using the word has NO bearing on anything, bolder-brain... Beside how in the hell do you know when he did or didn’t start using that word??? ... Maybe this was just the first time some fool in the audience had a video phone to record it! ... Even if it was the first time, maybe this is when he decided to spice things up?!?! The point is YOU don’t KNOW! you’re logic is full of holes, you and people like you love to fill in the blanks with your own twisted view of how things ought to be... sorry sweet cheeks, things aren’t all sugar plums and vanilla soda pop...
As for me being only one of a small cadre of people to see things clearly on this issue, I take pride in that... It in NO way means that I’m wrong, and in NO way would I ever want to be part of your majority, my little wood sprite... If you remembered your bible you could recall there was another fellow back about 2000 years who was also in the minority ... His name was Jesus ... Now say your prayers and go straight to bed, this material is much too heady for you to truly understand and will ultimately give you a headache ...

I'm not black. And again, you cannot ignore history when it affects the present so obviously. Enjoy your historical welfare check, you hypocritical halfwit.

oh yes, and i may i add that any one person's personal experiences with a member or a few members of a certain race are not enough to condemn every member of that race. i don't know how many times it needs to be said that there are stupid people and smart people in every race, and one must also consider the cultural and historical implications of being of a certain race. we don't live in a vacuum where everything is black and white (no pun intended).

Niggers R Stoopid! I have a big "Land-Cock." Do the Dew (AKA: "Land-Cock")! Derrrrr...

#157

Dear lord... I SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH... ETC,ETC your motion!!!!!!!

GOOD LORD! That "Land-Cock is monstrous!

The reason it is NOT okay for white people to use the n word is because of the history behind it and they way the word was used. It kills me that some of you go back to how poor black people are and how uneducated they are as well. What does that have to do with this asshole getting up on stage and saying things that should not have been said. Either way you look at it, it wasn't right. Who cares if black comedians get on stage and use the n word. You should be responsible for your own actions and deal with the outcome, just like he should. I can't believe people are taking up for him. I am an African American chemisrty major who comes from a hard working family......and I don't sit on my ass and wait on the government to send me money either. Grow up and don't be so closed minded.

no end quotes " symbolizes the immensity of the Land-Cock".

This Just In.... "Land-Cock is HUGE!!!"
Blacks aren't good at mathematics... unless, "you talkin' bout some crack" LOL!!

So true. I went to the White Bank the other day and got an interest free loan for my new business venture - a chain of Miracle Whip restaurants. Thanks to all my white brothers and sisters for sharing their money !

hahahahahahahahahaha! roflmao! i love the justme troll! justme is going to shit himself! Black chem major? He wishes! hahahahaha

Michael Richards had a banana print on his shirt. The monkeys (african-americans) thought it was real bananas, and went crazy! What a bunch of apes! :D LOL!!

PLEASE, PLEASE- someone--ANYONE-- SHUT jrzmommy the fuck up already... boo-hoo the blacks are so down trodden, what a bunch of miserable propaganda shit...
Hey Land-Man what would it cost me for you to stick your massive LAND-COCK down jrzmommy's throat, or up her ass, to finally shut her dumb cry baby mouth up!!! ... Maybe I can take up a collection...

177 - i just had the urge to rip you apart, but i won't do that. instead, i will say this: i'm a junior at harvard, a black female, and i didn't receive handouts from ANYONE. my mother never received welfare, and we were never a part of any "black community," so get your fucking facts straight before you try to make jokes. stop making dumbass generalizations.

Hahaha at 177. You should look up that Eddie Murphy SNL skit about white people getting stuff for free when they shop. He puts on white make-up and goes undercover. ROFLMAO. And does anyone understand what Land-Man is talking about? I think it's about black men and their huge cocks and how white women can't get enough. If so, right on!

Actually jrzmommy I am female and yes I am a chem major.

180 is SUCH a loser. I bet you he's the kind who ignores the facts of history and thinks minorities are where they are because they want to be. Years of colonization, forced enslavement, brutal violence, and financial theft by whites that was FINALLY legislated against a mere 50 years ago have nothing to do with it. Did you drop out of school in the 3rd grade, or are you just THAT dumb about history?

All other factors being equal, a short fat homely white woman has a poorer chance of being hired/promoted than a tall, trim, attractive black woman. There are many other factors for discrimination than skin color. If individuals want to practice affirmative action, so be it, but the government should abandon this inherently flawed policy.

Oh, and white people don't put their money in a big pot and share it between them. Old money means nothing to the average workin' stiff.

Wow, so I guess the new justme can no longer be sexist and racist, right? Welcome to superficial new justme!

181 - Learn to count.

Black cocks look like poop. Real hot. But the LANDCOCK is pure alabaster. Black people are made out of poop.

I'm with you Grope. Racial discrimination is not as prevalent in today's generally superficial society. Good looks are typically more important now. And if you lack good looks, then wealth is. And if you have both then you're a morally worthless herpetic heiress. I just don't think it's fair for people to pretend that history did not happen and that there are no current ramifications from centuries of brutalizing minority races. It has created inequalities, and it doesn't do anyone any good to pretend that whites are not richer and more privileged because of hundreds of years of violence, brutalization, theft from minorities and other societal designs. That is just how it was. You can't deny it or rewrite it.

Give money to living poop!?!

YouTube link is below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPFQUweJuvM&eurl=

not sure if it's been mentioned already but he's gonna make a 'statement' during the Seinfeld interview on Letterman tonight. Who wants to take bets that he blames alcohol in some way?

http://www.thespinzone.com

Flush the poop

He's going to claim to have anger management issues

It could also have been more pathetic if Jerry Seinfeld was in the video, tearing up Michael Richard's invitation to Jerry Seinfeld's birthday party.

LOL Dan! Are you a poop nigger? Sound like one.

You want me to sound like one?

I wish I had a big black cock. All I have is my teeny alabaster.

I guess I will take the big black one in my ass. That's the only way I will ever have a big cock. LOL.

Mother of pearl?

I am Land-Man. Me Stoopid! Me small penis I have! Like wet dog smell me!

My small wee wee just broke and fell off. Does that make me gay?

Me gay Land-Man. Gay BOTTOM. Cum get me! Big black cock yummy!

SOMEONE Has HiJacked-Land Man!!!!

Someone has HiJacked my ass! Big cock in my big gaping anus!

I'm calling the FCC as we speak, smartass. Hope you like being arrested LOL!!!

Don't forget this is a Jew saying this about Black people. Not a dam thing is going to happen to him. If he was anyone else saying this about Jews, he'd be appologizing 24/7 for the rest of his life

Stop threatening me with the FCC, fake Land-Man, and give me back the bit of my wee wee that fell on the floor! I need it!