Michael (Kramer) Richards example of a racialist meltdown

For me, it is hard to fake when you don't like a person.
And it's probably even harder to fake when the person is in your face giving you grief. But because, I don't like a person, does not give me the right to confront or hurl insults. That person is some mother's child, is how I look at it. Michael (Kramer) Richards was probably at his last straw of tolerance, when he came unglued or unnerved by the heckling audience member.


At the end of his wit ends and the heckler at a safe distance, Kramer did the unforgettable. Kramer used the six letter N-word. It was not just about Kramer letting out a racial rant of just how he felt about the person's cultural background. But Kramer did it while the cameras were rolling. Kramer lost it, he forgot to use his political correct language.

Some may have cheered at hearing Kramer giving the heckler a once over, others were shocked while others were outraged. Kramer himself, appearing remorseful, on the David Letterman show apologized for his outburst of intolerance.


What Kramer did is not a surprise to many African-Americans who don't believe that raced whites have forgotten or put away their belief of raced white privilege. This is a racist world that we live in, we are taught about its racist history. Some reject the racist model of the past and others work on ending the practices of racialists. However, there are some who are proud racialists and prefer the legal conduct of the past toward African-Americans. Kramer caught on tape spewing racialist language does not mean he is a racist, but it does suggest he is a practicing racialist.

The news media would have probable discounted it as not being news worthy, because it was just a famous actor degrading an African-American. But the Internet has a different type of editorial standard. The Internet allows anyone at anytime to show someone caught doing something unexpected and when least expected.

For that reason, some folks should remember a television show called Candid Camera, and the warning was when you least expected you might be on Candid Camera. Kramer suggested that after the episode of the racial attack that he will work for a change. Kramer has learned the lesson of self-censor, because just like the warning for the Candid Camera show, you never know and when you least expect it the camera gotcha moment.




I am still trying to figure out why Mel Gibson was lambasted for his anti-semitism remarks and Kramer is viewed as just having a moment? Where is the same type of outrage???