[Albion Wilde]

Don't get discouraged. I hope and believe that the idiots here defending Kramer are a small minority of conservatives. What Michael Richards did was disgusting on a human level, and stupid and idiotic on a professional level. It was even wrong from a comedic standpoint, as it wasn't funny in the slightest....Richards will be known forevermore as a moron. When you are being heckled about being a bad comedian, you respond to the heckler as a man, not as a black man, unless you are a racist who believes that black men are not allowed to have opinions about white comedians. To bring lynching into it, not just epithats, was horrible....Too bad. I love the Kramer character in that show. It will be hard to separate him from his disgusting real world person from here on.

Excellent summing-up -- I totally agree.

[Defiant]

Very reminiscent of when Dr. Tim Watley converts to Judaism, and immediately starts making Jewish jokes. Jerry is disgusted with it, and starts to suspect that Watley converted just so he could have immunity to tell those jokes. He goes to talk to a Catholic priest about it. The priest, after hearing Jerry's description of the problem, says, "and this offends you as a Jewish person." Jerry's reply,

"No, it offends me as a comedian".

Any comedian should be offended by Richards' outburst (it wasn't funny), just as any black person or American in general, should be offended by his attempt to turn an audience of English speaking Angelenos into a group of tribes, one set against the other.