their "Is Micheal Richards a racist?" poll

Richards, who played the wacky Cosmo Kramer on the hit TV show "Seinfeld," appeared onstage at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood. Kyle Doss, an African-American, told TMZ he and some friends were in the cheap seats and he was playfully heckling Richards when suddenly, the comedian lost it.

The camera started rolling just as Richards began his attack, screaming at one of the men, "Fifty years ago we'd have you upside down with a f***ing fork up your ass."

Richards continued, "You can talk, you can talk, you're brave now motherf**ker. Throw his ass out. He's a nigger! He's a nigger! He's a nigger! A nigger, look, there's a nigger!"

The crowd is visibly and audibly confused and upset. Richards responds by saying, "They're going to arrest me for calling a black man a nigger."

Kramer now apologizes in the most uncomfortable way possible. National Television.

He'll go to rehab for a season and have a good time and we'll forget. I'm just surprised Sharpton and friends didn't burn him on a stake.

I can't tell if they're being "actors" and "acting" or they're being sincere.

damn professionals.

Mel Gibson was drunk when he said racist things to a cop that had pulled him over. Somewhat understandable.

Michael Richards was sober and said racist things to a PAYING AUDIENCE. Un fucking beleivable. If the guy is so insecure about being past the peak of his career, then he shouldn't perform. It's not like he needs the money.

Mel Gibson was drunk when he said racist things to a cop that had pulled him over. Somewhat understandable.

I doubt they can tell themselves.

Youtube removed the clip :-(

maybe this is why there were no black people in seinfeld

The flaw here though is that, at the time, I felt like I had used a dirty trick by exposing some flaw of Latifa's that was simply not PC to say, i.e. that she was overweight. Maybe on some level Kramer felt like he was exposing some flaw in the audience, i.e. that they were black, so traditionally they would be underprivaleged, so how dare they insult such a nice white person as he.

I loved how the audience thought it was a joke. That really helped matters.

I remember there was this fat girl in my sunday school class named "Latifa" etc.

Did you see his apology on David Letterman? It's almost more painful to watch.

The letterman thing just looked like Seinfeld trying to save his buddy's ass or w/e. I got a very "white folks stick together" vibe from it; [

in one of the 1,000 news pieces about this article, the picture of kramer they decided to show was one of him wearing the magic technicolor pimp coat, which i think is both incredibly hilarious and insanely offensive.

maybe this is why there were no black people in seinfeld

Big difference between being fat and being black, in that you can NOT be fat. In La-pig-ga's case it was more a statement of fact than an insult. You have nothing to apologize for besides hurting her feelings.

And even then, if you meant to do it, then it's tough cookies for her.

Kramer probably has some racism in him if he pulled for that to piss the guy off in the heat of the moment.

but this is just gonna make them two men seem like jerk offs attempting to cash-in

Even more awesome, their white lawyer friend immediately flew into a rant about how Kramer has to compensate them for what he did.