What do you make of Michael Richard's (Kramer's) rant?

Is he truly a racist, or was it all in the heat of the moment? Your thoughts please? Thanks!What do you make of Michael Richard's (Kramer's) rant?
I have been angry before, but I have never been so angry that I began swearing at the top of my lungs and I pray to God that I never know that kind of anger. Michael said that he is not a racist, but ';out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks'; (Mt. 12;34). I think that he must be going through something in his personal life and the hecklers set him off. He has blacklisted himself. I will be very surprised if he performes anywhere in the USA ever again. It's a shame, he's got talent.What do you make of Michael Richard's (Kramer's) rant?
he succumbed to pressure


and probably has some rascism in him


I think everyone has prejudices, some innocuous, some malignant


a famous best seller was ';men are from mars, women are from venus';, is that not sexism?


intelligent people celebrate their differences


ignorant people defile them
I've heard bad things about him before, like reading the gossip magazines, it said that a woman asked him if she could take a picture of him, (or maybe she took a picture of him) then he smashed her camera, so it didn't really suprise me.





I don't know that he is a racist, but he does seem to be quite a hothead.
Every time a celebrity does something like this, he is accused of being racist. We are all capable and even guilty of the same thing the only problem is that we are not famous.





You can turn the other cheek, but what happens when you have no cheeks left? The man snapped. He has admitted that the fury within came out, which means he lost his temper, big time. He was sincere when he apologized. He knows what he did was wrong. He did not hide behind the ';drunk'; excuse.





This too will pass. Because there will always be a next one just around the corner.
heat of the moment,yo.


hope the poor guy doesn't kill himself.Definitely lost his mind for a second,huh?His little interview on Letterman was pretty whacked,too.He's more shocked than WE aere it looks like.The dudes scattered covered smothered etc.


People are wrong to compare to mel G.At least richards didn't hide immediately;although it would have been better for the guy if he hadn't gone on TV without a plan for the garbled apology.
he just hurt himself more than he could ever hurt any black person.





as a matter of fact, all racist should explode and have tirades so we can easily identify them.
he did what he did because he was pissed off and the guy just happend to be black...he was tryign to use any way he could to piss the guy off as much as he was pissed off and hurt him as much as he could using words...it just happend he could only thin of the Nbomb...and a fork up the butt...
Hadnt heard about it until I read this post and I went and watched the video, pretty obvious that heat of the moment or not, he was way out of line. He even admitted on letterman that he was angry and filled with hate. So sad, I always liked Kramer. I just think that it is really easy to let someone off the hook for saying something like that but the truth is that there is a greater truth below the surface, someone who can drop Nbombs like that in the heat of anger, usually still thinks the same thing when he is not angry. I suppose everyone has a right to their own feelings, but that is not the way to win supporters when your career depends on the public liking you. He said ';thats what happens when you interupt a white man Motherf****er'; Disturbing, Yes, Sad..Yes. It's to bad, this will probably haunt him for ever and may even cause him to hate people even more when he realizes what it will cost him in the long run. Just my opinion.
he is a hot head who cannot handle his b-list fame
Its more proof that famous people say stupid things without thinking just as often as non-famous people do. I've put my foot in my mouth a few times.
I honestly think it was a heat of the moment type thing. A lot of people don't think when they're frazzled and just want to be hurtful to retaliate, therefore saying the most hurtful, nasty thing they can. I don't think he's a racist and even if he was, the statements were a definite heat of the moment type thing because all celebrities know they are constantly being scrutinized so they try to keep a watchful eye on what they do. So in my opinion, it was a heat of the moment type slip up.
I think it's a double standard due to the fact that rappers say the ';N'; word (No I don't use it!!) every other word!! And you hear all these little hip hop clowns refer to themselves as it again every other word...I have no problem with the fact that he snapped and called them something they probably refered to themselves as all day long anyway....It was the comment that precipitated it





';If it was 50 years ago you'd be hanging upside down with a fork in your a*s'; That blew my mind...





Something like that just doesn't roll off your tongue unless you've thought about it before..That was unbelievably offensive and crossed every there was to cross in my mind!! The dudes career has been dead for years. So I can't even say he buried himself with that comment...