Yes he was rude.
Yes he was not funny.
Yes he used bad words.
He was heckled by the black men and responded in a bad way. He has said he is sorry over 1000 times everywhere you look.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. Didn't the men in the audience have parents who taught them that?
They are also talking about a lawsuit. Is that fair?
I HELLBENT say enough already.
2006-12-04 08:36:16 · 23 answers · asked by HELLBENT 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Thats what happens when you let the media spin words into more then just words .
If he had used ignorant whore instead the N word or said we use to hang people who heckled comedians after the show in the parking lot .the media could still have trashed him but people would not have called him a racist which is what he is .
When did being honest enough to admit you dislike an entire race of people become wrong .
You can hate the Iranians or the Russians or the Mexicans but God forbid white people hate people from Africa .
They where brought here as slaves and as a sub species of human .
Lacking any civility and education .
This view has changed over time , but , in the brain, people of different races are what they are .A threat to the survival of your race .
So it may be well and good for tolerant open minded educated people to accept all races as equal , but you can not change the brain of those who do not have the ability to understand we are all the same except for our intellect .
I thought he was smart enough not to allow his hatred to show so openly .
Guess I was wrong .
If he needs someone to speak up for him at his trial I will be more then glad to help him out .
I will just bring in some rap music and black comics who use the word ****** all the time .
2006-12-04 08:48:30 · answer #1 · answered by -----JAFO---- 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Michael Richards has come to believe the illusion. That is, if a white man seems to have offended a minority, then the white person gets no slack and is expected grovel for ever at the feet of whoever was supposedly offended.
I find this more than a little interesting and certainly a point of view which, in my opinion, holds no merit. My ancestry is Celtic white and rooted many years in the southern mountains of the United States. Not the stereotypical rednecks, but the true mountain people of the United States. My people have been the butt of jokes and ridicule for many generations. People have said some downright stupid and ignorant things about my people. So what! The person saying these things is the one that has to live with the results and I don’t expect any apology.
Why we have reached the point that such political correctness has come to rule our relationships with each other I don’t understand. But if it continues it will simply separate people more than already exists.
Michael should just shut up and focus on doing his business.
2006-12-04 08:52:54 · answer #2 · answered by Randy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, what he said was stupid, unkind, irresponsible, enough already. I agree also the other gentlemen shouldn't have been heckling. If you didn't like the show leave or complain to the management. I think there was a lot of bad behavior all around,even though Richards was the worst. A lawsuit is just dumb, but people seem to be "sue happy" like that solves everything. I think that demeans the side of the black men involved and makes them look like they are out for a quick buck.
2006-12-04 08:42:47 · answer #3 · answered by LIly 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Michael Richards is apologizing because he is trying to save what scraps remained of his career post-Seinfeld. If he is sincere about the apology, great.
The men in the audience, being black, MIGHT come from a background and from parents in which names led to sticks and stones. I have employed women in the last few years who had to ride in the back of the bus when they went to school and use separate "but equal" facilities such as drinking fountains. Being called a "N---" to them is a little more than just calling names. Younger people may or may not have that experience.
As for the lawsuit, they really don't have grounds, in my opinion. Then again, they hired a media whore attorney who probably doesn't care about the case except it gets her more face time on TV.
2006-12-04 08:40:41 · answer #4 · answered by kingstubborn 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Political correctness has generally created an environment of intolerance the position affirming some thing stupid or mildly offensive has a techniques more advantageous impact than that is going to. some human beings have crude senses of humor, some human beings opt for to push peoples' buttons, some each and anybody is only jerks. It doesn't straight away result my existence because i do not tolerate racism or bigotry, yet I do believe in freedom of speech. The previous "sticks and stones ought to smash my bones, yet words will by no skill damage me" argument. If i do not trust someone or imagine they suck, i'm now unlikely to slander them and demand outrageous punishment,and that i'm now unlikely to "tell the instructor", i am going to tell them what i imagine and walk away. this is what those with integrity do. If more advantageous human beings had integrity and refused to take heed to those who say staggering issues we does not ought to rigidity about political correctness and the slippery slope it ought to lead on to.
2016-11-30 03:29:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Michael Richards made a huge mistake. I DON'T think his continued apologies are an attempt to regain fans.... I'm not certain he had any to start with. I think he truly regrets what he said........ he really has been kind of "out there" anyway. I hope they loose the lawsuit and the judge makes them pay Michael Richard's attorney fees. Make that double his attorney fees.
2006-12-04 08:49:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's political correctness. I think that it's self-preservation kicking in to try and salvage what's left of his career. It's a waste of time IMO. I think most people are intelligent enough to realize that if that word wasn't part of his vocabulary already it never would have come out of his mouth, angry or not. He should be very grateful for the fact that he can live off Seinfeld residuals for the rest of his life.
2006-12-04 08:51:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Truthfully, who did he really screw? Those guys? There are racists and bigots in every walk of life. Since I'm white I've never been called a ni**er. I can say I've had more than one boss in my lifetime that called me plenty of names. I'm happy to report I lived through it all. He was wrong there's no getting around that, however it was hardly earth shattering. Enough already. I think if I see him apologize one more time I might puke.
2006-12-04 08:48:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes enough is enough. A lawsuit is not fair. I dont care what he said the men in the audience were rude also. He was rude, they were all a giant big ball of rude, it happens get over. Cry babies.
2006-12-04 08:37:43 · answer #9 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Why can`t these famouse people when they screw up like ALL OF US DO just say *you know what I was drunk* sorry dude. And people just LET IT GO !!! I hate to think I havn`t stuck my foot in ,my my more than once and I`d hate to think that I`d get sued or be on CNN when I do it. YA he was wrong who among us has never been there
2006-12-04 08:44:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋