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Sharpton: Comedian's apology not enough
cnn ^ | 11-22-06

Posted on 11/22/2006 3:57:53 PM PST by LouAvul

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton said Wednesday he refused to accept an apology from actor Michael Richards, who spouted a racist rant at a comedy club last week.

But Sharpton said he did agree to meet with Richards to try to start a process to address racism in America.

"I [told Richards] you need to sit down and deal with this," Sharpton told CNN. "This is not about accepting an apology, this is about starting a process to really deal with the continual problem of racism in this country." (Watch Richards' meltdown on stage -- 1:39 )

Sharpton said he got the call from Richards earlier Wednesday.

"I think that what he did was so injurious that he has to sit down with a group and decide how he tries to ... deal with healing the obvious problem he's got in his own mind and his own heart, because it couldn't come out of you if it wasn't in you," Sharpton said.

The incident took place Friday night at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, California.

In a video clip posted on the celebrity gossip Web site TMZ.com, obtained from an audience member, Richards unleashed a nearly three-minute tirade punctuated by racial slurs at a group of African-American hecklers.

In it, he made a reference to lynching and added shortly before walking offstage, "That's what happens when you interrupt a white man."

TMZ.com is a subsidiary of Time Warner, as is CNN.

Richards apologized Monday on CBS's "Late Show" with David Letterman, saying he is not a racist.

"I was at a comedy club trying to do my act and I got heckled, and I took it badly and went into a rage," said Richards, who appeared on the show via satellite.

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To: indylindy
I saw the two hecklers on ET tonight. They have shakedown money in their futures they way they spoke. I bet ACLU lawyers are in the black's cellphones as we are reading and a lawsuit is in the making. Richards is toast, financially and professionally. He is going to make the communist sympathizer's blacklist look friendly.
81 posted on 11/22/2006 4:58:28 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: LouAvul

Why should Richards apologise to Sharpton? He wasnt at the show.

Sharpton should learn to mind his own business.


82 posted on 11/22/2006 4:59:38 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: HitmanLV
but his commentary made me wondering more about whether he has his full mental faculties or not.

He clearly sounds like someone seriously disturbed.

Although I don't condone his outburst, it sounds like a cry for help. His apology later made him all the more pathetic.

My question: what is Sharpton's excuse for his own behavior? Maybe he should be a little bit more forgiving.

83 posted on 11/22/2006 5:00:13 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: LouAvul

Hey al... I have two words for you...

TAWANA BRAWLEY! You never apologized, you racist POS!

LLS


84 posted on 11/22/2006 5:02:24 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (Preserve America... kill terrorists... destroy dims!)
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To: vetvetdoug

They smell lawsuit and they smell opportunity. I wish he would have insulted me. /s just kidding


85 posted on 11/22/2006 5:02:29 PM PST by dforest (Don't get fooled, the bigger struggle is still out there, and growing)
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To: Always Right
All Richards has to do is call Bush an idiot and endorse Hillary in 2008, and all will be forgiven.

Before Seinfeld, I remember Richards from an 80's late night comedy show called Fridays. It was so anti-Reagan that it made me puke. I hope that stupid a-hole gets grief in spades!< ?

86 posted on 11/22/2006 5:07:43 PM PST by appleharvey
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To: Dog

Jackson and Sharpton will likely forgive him if he donates his royalties from the Seinfeld series to them. Then it's all all right


87 posted on 11/22/2006 5:15:54 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: OldFriend
Remember what the MSM did to John Rocker for voicing his opinion about the denizens on the 7 train?

Literally hounded him from baseball. It was disgraceful what they did to him.

88 posted on 11/22/2006 5:18:06 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: LouAvul

Comedians not ready to accept Sharpton's apology for Tawana Brawley?


89 posted on 11/22/2006 5:19:24 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: gidget7
The guy is a comedian, hellooooo. Not a head of state or even a congresscritter.

Which guy are you talking about, Sharpton or Richards?

90 posted on 11/22/2006 5:26:18 PM PST by Logophile
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To: LouAvul
Tell fat Al it was a botched joke, made by a professional comedian who immediately went on National TV and apologized.
I don't think Sharpton wants to make Time Warner angry....oh No. That would be a big mistake. If he keeps it up and the Seinfeld franchise suffers from it, we may actually see Objective reporting appear in CNN & Time Magazine. Don't bite the hand that feeds you Rev.
91 posted on 11/22/2006 5:31:13 PM PST by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: LouAvul

At least Mel Gibson is happy this happened so we can all move on, especially since this is before his next movie comes out.


92 posted on 11/22/2006 5:34:12 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: LouAvul
I just saw in the news that Gloria Allred is going to represent the heckler in the crowd and saying that Richard's apology is not enough. I guess everybody is going for Richard's pockets.
93 posted on 11/22/2006 5:39:31 PM PST by hodaka
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To: Recon Dad
Who appointed that thief arbiter of all that is PC?

The MSM.

94 posted on 11/22/2006 5:47:38 PM PST by Ditto
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To: LouAvul
The thing is that many people who are racist are never insulting and those that are insulting are not necessarily racist. A person who wants to horribly insult someone can use certain trigger words to push their buttons without ever intending for it to be an insult to anyone else or to a whole race. Then you have the true racists who never say a derogatory word about a given race, yet their actions speak louder than words.
95 posted on 11/22/2006 6:02:49 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: Logophile

Oh, LMAO, now that the mention it, that could be taken either or!! Fits!


96 posted on 11/22/2006 6:03:29 PM PST by gidget7 (Political Correctness is Marxism with a nose job)
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To: LouAvul

"The *Rev.* Al Sharpton said Wednesday *he refused to accept an apology* from actor Michael Richards.." The mantra of the Dim party not so long ago...What would Jesus do? By not accepting the apology, HE (Sharpton) is not assisting in the healing process.


97 posted on 11/22/2006 6:05:08 PM PST by Goldie Lurks (professional moonbat catcher)
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To: vetvetdoug; LouAvul
Your statement.

Richards is toast professionally and financially. He is going to make the communist sympathizer's list blacklist look friendly.

We all need a really good solid laugh here. Not at Richards though, they are shaking him like a champion rat terrier would shake a rat. (Old country expression).

I caught CNN tonight. The male announcer actually suggested to Gloria Aldred, that these two young men could sue etc. I am ok with these two fellows myself. They are playing the part of the offended and dignified innocent party. No complaints here.

CNN followed with a quick coverage of a university group. Young conservatives who have instituted a scholarship "for whites only". The idea is to expose the REAL racisism of those who isolate themselves and claim privilege.

Sad though this is, someone has to start a big belly laugh. I will have to think of an analogy for later.

98 posted on 11/22/2006 6:07:25 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: Rummyfan

Whenever Rocker appears on TV it's always the same topic. They will not accept his apology, and seem to glory in his career being destroyed.


99 posted on 11/22/2006 6:08:07 PM PST by OldFriend (FALLEN HERO JEFFREY TOCZYLOWSKI, REST IN PEACE)
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To: Goldie Lurks

The hecklers are on H&C right now, with Gloria Allred, and they've just said that they are looking for money from this.

They just lost any sympathy I might have had for them. Richards was probably willing to apologize publicly to them, but no, they want money.

I will stop now, before I have to apologize to someone.


100 posted on 11/22/2006 6:10:26 PM PST by SlowBoat407 (A living insult to islam since 1959)
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