[QUOTE="p2rus"][QUOTE="Pirate700"]Most of the racial jokes in black comedies, if a white person said anything like them about a black person, the show would be torn off the air and the network fined. I_pWnzz_YoU
Most of the racial jokes i see in black shows are... nonexistant. I dont hear racial slurs and anger on black shows. your trying to change the argument into a discussion on double standards. That would be your agenda. However, its not that complicated. I won't watch your show and I won''t listen to your material if you verbally assault someone and scream derogatory epithets at them! It was a minor slip up. It's the only time he's done something like that and he apologized for it later. Not watching the show because of something so small as that is just idiotic.:lol: What was he gonna do, NOT apologize for it?
He was pretty much washed up at the time anyway, and NOT apologizing would have been CERTAIN death for his career.
Not that I'm saying that his apology wasn't genuine. Here's the thing...if you accept that his apology was genuine and sincere, then you ALSO have to accept that he was being genuine and sincere when, during his apology, he stated that he had racial issues that he had to work on resolving.
I don't see why people have such a need to DEFEND the guy. HE admitted that he crossed the line, HE admitted that he had racial issues that he needed to resolve, and I can still enjoy his performance in Seinfeld even though I'm black, and what he said was TOTALLY racist against blacks. And he also deserved EVERY BIT of backlash that he got.
I don't hate the guy, and I don't think that he's a closet KKK member out to get destroy the blacks. But that doesn't mean that he's not a racist. And yes, Mel Gibson is an anti-semite even if he sometimes makes great movies. If he makes a great movie and keeps his anti-semitism OUT of his movie, then I'll probably watch his next movie if the subject matter interests me. But I can certainly UNDERSTAND if a jewish person boycott's Mel's movie on general principle. Similarly, if Michael Richards stars in a movie, I'm willing to watch it if it's GOOD (which is unlikely considering that his standup material sort of sucked and most of the movies and TV shows he's been in have been crap), and if he keeps his racism OUT OF THE MOVIE. But that's not very likely to happen. He pretty much killed his career. He's not coming back any time soon, for good reason. What he said WAS horrible, the backlash against him was 100% justified, and that's no one's but Michael Richards' fault.
WHY try to defend the guy? It WASN'T supposed to be a joke. And if it WAS supposed to be a joke, then he failed so badly at it that he deserves to get banished from the comedy scene purely based on how unfunny his material is. I'm not saying that he's a bad guy, or that I wouldn't hang out at the bar with him, but those were purely angry racist and hateful comments. Worse, they weren't racist comments made after getting pulled over for being drunk, they were comments made DURING his job. He actually said that **** DIRECTLY to his audience WHILE he was performing. It's not even just that Michael Richards is a racist. It's that people were paying him money to see him do a comedy act, and then end up paying him money to STOP performing a comedy act and instead go off on an angry hateful anti-black tirade.
So yeah...Seinfeld is still funny. And yeah...I don't hate the guy and would probably watch him again as long as he were starring in something that I'm interested in. But there's no defense for the dude. None whatsoever.
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