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SantaMushroom

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Posted on 11-21-06 11:09 PM

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Wow.
He seriously needs to lay of the racism. It's not funny

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Posted on 11-22-06 12:07 AM

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I think his apology was going OK until he dropped "Afro-Americans" in there.

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Posted on 11-22-06 12:28 AM

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I've heard from an interview that he was asked by staff to apolgize to the crowd (Who recieved free tickets to the next show) at his next showing the following day, but he just went on as if nothing had happened.

If he had done something before the media was on his ass, I would think he was more honest about it.

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Posted on 11-22-06 08:41 PM

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I think Kramer is probably a racist. I just saw him play a stereotypic black man in an 80's thing. Its on Youtube. Saw it on CNN. It's.....just so wrong.

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Posted on 11-23-06 07:07 PM

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I just saw on the news that the black men in question are now trying to sue Richards for cash. What he said was over the line, but this is no better. I have little sympathy for them now because they appear to be greedy and living up to the negative stereotypes. Just because someone insulted you should be no reason to sue, that's just pathetic.

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Posted on 11-23-06 10:45 PM

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Someone on another message board I go to mentioned something interesting: No one else finds it suspicious that the whole tirade was caught on video from the start? OR that it conveniently cut off whatever it was the hecklers said to get him so riled up in the first place?

For the first one, it almost makes you think someone had it planned from the start, and that whoever shot the video was effectively in cahoots with the hecklers and expected some type of reaction (As someone catching it on the fly would have had to fumble around for their cell phone, turn it on, etc.). As for the second, it's funny that any and all context for what he said was removed in the first place. Not that it excuses what he said, but he's hardly the first person to fly off the handle and say something moronic he didn't mean, nor will he be the last, and with whatever led to that also being shown, it may help us comprehend why he went as far as he did.

Just something to think about.

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Posted on 11-24-06 01:35 AM

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Or maybe they just edited down after the fact to what they thought was the important part.

One thing I noticed though, is at the beginning most of the audience is laughing at what Richards is saying. It probably started out as a joke. Maybe he and the hecklers were already trading semi-racist comments. But then he just went too far with it.

On the upsides for Richards, he got himself back on TV.

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