Re: "Kramer's" Racist Tirade -- Caught on Tape

News story:

Given the whole Michael Richards heckler scandal, The Late Show with David Letterman really lucked out Monday night since Jerry Seinfeld was one of the scheduled guests. Apparently Seinfeld got Kramer Richards to give his side of the story, asking him to come on the show and Letterman agreed to it.

Richards apologized for his actions and denied he is a racist:


Richards: For this to happen - for me to be at a comedy club and flip out and say this crap. I'm deeply, deeply sorry. And, um, I've got - I'll get to the force field of this hostility. Why it's there. Why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation.

Letterman: Michael let me interrupt here for a second. Let me ask a question, had the people doing the heckling or the people not paying attention, had they been white or Caucasian or any other race what would have been the response then?

Richards: It may have happened. I'm a performer. I push the envelope. I work in an uncontrolled manner on stage. I do a lot of spontaneous – I don't know in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know. The rage - the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room. But you can't - you know it's - I don't - I know blacks could feel - I'm not a racist. That's what so insane about this and yet it's said. It comes through. It fires out of me. And even now in the passion and the feelings as I confront myself.

After Richards spoke his piece, Seinfeld explained his reasoning for having Richards come on and thanked Letterman, “I know how he works on stage and none of that justifies what happened but I've been talking to him today and I just - he's someone that I love and I know how shattered he is about this. And he deserves a chance. That's I wanted him to come on. He deserves a chance to apologize. That's all he wanted and thank you for letting him do it.”

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I can't even understand what the heck he's saying. He's not very eloquent, is he?

Re: "Kramer's" Racist Tirade -- Caught on Tape

wow...I am really speechless...I never saw the full video until now and it literally sickened me...terrible...

Re: "Kramer's" Racist Tirade -- Caught on Tape

I heard about this on the radio and was like
What a jerk!

Re: "Kramer's" Racist Tirade -- Caught on Tape

Not that it matters, but after seeing the video I don't think the reports were accurate to say that most of the audience left. I know, it does not make a difference, I just like when reports are more accurate. I can't imagine how bizarre it would have been to be in that audience.