. . . or do you think he just had a very bad night and is having a lot of trouble living with how he handled it? Have your feelings changed about him? Are you more angry with him or do you feel more sorry for him? Personally, I think a heckler just heckled in the wrong way at the wrong time and Michael is so stunned that he could ever do it, that he thinks he is subconsciously a racist. But we are all somewhat racist subconsciously. And anyone of us could done the same thing. But it is good that he is searching deep within himself. I'm still a fan and I hope that him and everyone else can find peace from this incident. So what's your take?
2006-12-06 04:17:13 · 10 answers · asked by ? 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I think richards had a bad night, and delt with some irratating loud mouth, while under stress at that moment.
he made a mistake? maybe, every one of us makes them.
Racist?..no..just dealing with some body in the spurr of the moment, and it went bad
2006-12-06 04:27:02 · answer #1 · answered by duster 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Michael Richards is a spineless weakling. He has anger issues and maybe he does have racial issues. The gentleman who heckled Richards was right: he's not funny. That's not heckling the wrong way. If he said "You suck, you cracker-&ss $@#&*& and attacked him or his family personally, then that's heckling the wrong way. What Richards did was the equivalent of giving the death penalty for speeding. Inexcusable.Now, after he has seen what happened, he is bending over backwards, wiping everyone's behinds, groveling,etc. No matter what he does, he's finished. So he should have just apologized and disappeared off the radar screen for a long time. I do hope he is really searching deep within himself rather than putting on an act to save his dead career.
Another point you made: "We are all somewhat racist subconscoiusly". Really? Wrong. It's all how you view the world. I get angry at the person, not the race or color of his/her skin. We all bleed the same color blood, our internal organs are the same whether we're black, white, purple with pink polka-dots.
One more comment: the man whom Richards heckled is suing him for monetary damages.In my eyes, that's wrong. He should just take Richards behind a building and just beat the tar out of him. But if he's suing, I want to sue also because I now can't watch Seinfeld anymore without looking at Kramer and seeing a groveling Grand Wizard. And that damage$ me.
2006-12-06 12:39:22 · answer #2 · answered by Tiberius 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So do I. All he was doing was demonstrating to the black racists how it feels to be heckled as if they didn't know that.
I feel very sorry for him. He got caught up in circumstances and the news media loves to get wind of some instances, and always sensationalize them. I don't believe Michael is racist. Yes, good that he is searching within himself. Yes, I wish everyone would just drop it. I have, I hope you can too.
2006-12-06 12:26:27 · answer #3 · answered by makeitright 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he is like the rest of us. Not a racist just frustrated with certain people from different ethnic groups. I have said things to people of a different race that would be labled racist when they have pissed me off. We have all done it that doesn't make us racist. I am a blond female and I have been called that by so many people it's the same thing .....that doesn't mean racist.
Racism is commonly defined as a belief or doctrine where inherent biological differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, with a corollary that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.[1]
The term racism is sometimes used to refer to preference for one's own ethnic group (ethnocentrism),[2] fear of foreigners (xenophobia), views or preferences against interbreeding of the races (miscegenation),[3] and nationalism,[4], and/or a generalization of a specific group of people (stereotype); regardless of any explicit belief in superiority or inferiority embedded within such views or preferences. Racism has been used in attempts to justify social discrimination, racial segregation and violence, including genocide. Politicians are known to practice race-baiting in an effort to win constituents.
The term racist, when used to describe someone who supports racism, has been a pejorative term since at least the 1940s, and the identification of a group or person as racist is nearly always controversial.
2006-12-06 12:28:19 · answer #4 · answered by c0mplicated_s0ul 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know him personally so I can't say for sure if he's a racist or not. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he let his anger at several black guys put him into a rage- which by itself says he may have an anger management issue- and he used racially charged language due to anger towards these specific people, and not blacks in general.
2006-12-06 12:44:40 · answer #5 · answered by GEEGEE 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's not a racist. I'm not angry with him, and I don't feel sorry for him. Those black boys asked for it.
The racists are the new black panthers, farrakahn followers, and the former professor who stated publicly that the white race needs to be exterminated.
2006-12-06 12:35:33 · answer #6 · answered by jenjen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People give him too much credit. Heck, he is just a stupid actor. What do you expect of him? Be a role model because he played third banana on the Seinfeld show?
2006-12-06 12:21:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe its a little bit of both. He made those comments out of anger, but it had to have come from somewhere.
2006-12-06 12:25:38 · answer #8 · answered by Annieo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHITE PEOPLE CAN'T BE RACIST. THEY DON'T HAVE THE RACE CARD TO PLAY IN THE GAME.
2006-12-06 12:34:06 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, he is just trying to save his ars
2006-12-07 00:25:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋