Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: Dean
Originally posted by: Darkstar757
Yeah the entire event was discusting and I am even more discussed by the ATOT memebers that say thats not racism.
I think most know what it is. I think many here just had so much respect and liked the guy, they are having a hard time seeing the obvious. I liked the guy too, until I saw his blind hatred.
I said in another post in P&N that I think everyone is a bigot, just on vastly different levels. Everyone will have some sort of intolerance to someone who is of different religion, ethnic backgrounds, lifestyle, creed or color. The battle we have in life is to overcome our inner fears, to accept difference and to better ourselves. If he came on Letterman last night and said look, I am a racist, I also promise to try to make myself a better human being. I would have taken what he said at face value and said good luck to him. That would have taken real courage and would have shown that he realizes his inner demons and wants to correct them. As it stands, he does not consider himself to be racist :roll:. I consider him not only a racist, but also a liar. All he will do now is sweep the obvious under a rug.
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Just because he said that to one person doesn't makes him a racist. Did you get this up-in-arms when Beyonce's comments? Pretty much every hugely popular black comedian uses the words beloved patriot or cracker, that's ok though?
You need to settle down. He made one comment to one person and you act like he was burning crosses on Oprah's lawn.
Exscuse me for adding in my 2 cents, but in this instance his comments were more general , in essence they didn't refer to one person but to more or less a whole group of people. And I feel that for
anyone to make such comments whether black,white,orange, or purple is wrong. BTW what comments did Beyonce make?
My take on the video is this. At first he seems like he might be joking even though comments such as " Shut up! 50 years ago we'd have you upside down with a f***ing pitchfork up your a**" are disturbing, and when he said "Throw his a** out, He's a N*, He's a N, He's a N" My take on it was at first maybe he's doing satire on racisim. When he said "Alright you see? This shocks you, it shocks you..." that
would have reinforced my thought that it was satire. But when he says "They're going to arrest me for calling a black man a N" (in a sarcastic tone) and "That's what happens when you interrupt the white man, don't you know?" That proves he's serious and he has a serious problem.
It's like he's saying that if a black man does something you don't like he shall be punished because that's what happens when you mess with the white man.
On the other hand I do feel the man he was arguing with should have said"That was uncalled for you f***ing c***er-a** motherf***er" or a "F***ing white boy" that was just as bad he should have been the better person and not used racial slurs nor should he have been obnoxious in the first place.
Although that does not mean he should have been called racial slurs. The correct way for Michael Richards to handle this would have been to talk to the manager and have security remove the offending person.
As long as we fall back on the ignorance exspressed in the pas 100+ years we will never advance to becoming better people. I feel saddend that two adults have to result to such derogatory racial comments.
P.S( I understand some of your views on saying black or white person but the issue with that is when have you ever seen anyone who is truly white or black? and what about other races, not everyone who has dark skin is black or of african descent(I don't feel that's what most of you intended to say I'm just making a point for clarity), there are so many shades in the rainbow of people.)