Another celebrity meltdown
Have you heard the latest uproar? I guess if you haven’t you must have been out of the country or something. You all know Comedian and Actor Michael Richards who is best known for the role of Kramer on Seinfeld, loved by many people because he made the Kramer character loveable and he was so good at it too!
Richards was doing a show at a comedy club this past weekend and ended up offending quite a few people when he reacted badly to a group of hecklers watching his show. The hecklers who were black, got the brunt of Richards’ anger when he went off on a diatribe of racial remarks that were thought to be a part of his act at first, until people began to realize there was no punch line and what he continued to spew wasn’t funny anymore.
In the same news report I was listening to, they said that Richards went on David Letterman’s show to apologize and one of his comment was “I’m not racist”.
I thought about that for a minute and I said to myself, “Well, if you’re not racist, how come when you’re angry all that stuff comes out? Where does all that hate come from?”
I can understand anger and saying things in the heat of the moment, swear words, calling people names, even if the infamous “nigger” comes out, OK, you’re letting off steam. And even then it’s like, OK, you’re talking to a friend and you cuss at him and call him a nigger? That would make me wonder what kind of friendship that is and was that necessary.
I don’t understand though; when I hear of other people who have done what he did, if the person says they aren’t racist, why say things like that in the first place? Michael Richards didn’t just say “nigger this or nigger that”, he made some really terrible remarks, including “…that’s why we used to sling you up on trees…” (not verbatim) and other derogatory remarks.
If he’s not racist, how could all that come out? That’s a lot of ‘things’ to be bottled up inside of him if he isn’t racist!
They showed a brief snippet of the man who said it all started because of what he said to Richards, he shouted out to him “I hear that you’re not funny” (or something like that – it was so fast I didn’t hear quite clearly), and he thought Richards would handle it in a comedic way, the way most comedians would and was surprised at his (Richards) reaction.
While all this doesn’t bode well for Richards, it won’t make me hate him. It’s not nice to hear what happened, it's sickening that there are people who can look at someone else and think this way, yet I feel sorry for the guy. He’s going to have a hard time living this one moment down.
I’m willing to chalk it down to a slip of the tongue, or him being tired, or high, or drunk even! I’m even willing to chalk it down to him going through a moment of temporary insanity where he has had a string of bad experiences with quite a few black people bothering him?! Hey, anything is possible.
Sorry Michael, I tried to find excuses for you, they just don’t fly. I guess you have some explaining to do, which you’ve already started doing anyway. Yep, your world will be turned upside down for a while, but then you’ll be back in the bosom of the public’s arms once again.
Just another episode of hate that will be looked on as unimportant, nothing to make a big fuss about or as usual, just plain denial.
Aw yes, just another celebrity meltdown.
Life goes on and so do we. Yep, it really does.