Post by Adam B on Nov 29, 2006 8:16:36 GMT -5
Kramer did it. Kramer dropped the N-bomb, and not in a ha-ha funny way, but rather in a straight up racial tirade that included referencing the lynchings and hangings of the time of slavery. By now everyone has seen the video from last week where Michael Richards blew up at a black fan who had been heckling him. Richards is currently making the usual rounds of national apology that celebrities are required to do after such an incident, even if they’re not really sorry. While I was personally more disturbed by the “fifty years ago we’d have strung you up and stuck a fork in your ass” comment, the thing that everyone’s going nuts over is the fact that Richards dropped the N-bomb, calling his heckler a “nigger” a number of times. Funny how the intense visual of hanging someone due to their race gets thrown to the side in this case, but that’s race relations in America in 2006, the prevailing thinking being that if we eliminate the slurs it will make everything better. There’s a problem with that, however, it has no chance at working.
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