There are too many posts that I want to respond to for me to actually do that, so I'm just going to ramble on.
First off, all this crap about the hecklers trying to "come up" from their incident needs to stop! America is the legal land of oppurtunity, and suing someone is the first thing anyone does now and days. Whites do it. Blacks do it. Everyone does it! So, saying that the incident now lacks validity because they are suing doesn't hold water. It also doesn't make them any more shallow than anyone else who sues. This includes the notorious Brown family.
Publicity seekers like Sharpton and Allred are on the television yacking and yacking about race relations because of this. So what! How many other politicians, publicty hounds, and the like do the same? This is common. Everyone who wants to be on television will try to do so, and Allred and Sharpton frequently insert themselves in these types of frays. Other white politicians and evangelist do it too. Again, these people's involvement in this incident doesn't negate the incident or excuse Richards actions.
Black comedians use the n-word and make jokes about white people, so why shouldn't Richards? Uh....that is so asinine I can't even believe folks are using that one. First off, Richards wasn't using this during an act. Yes, he was on stage, but his routine was way over. He was just being an ass, and he used a racial slur to insult a member of the audience who was heckling him, which clearly is over the line. Frequently, many comedians use audience members for comic fodder, and yes they do make deragotory remarks about anything and everything under the sun. However, Richards wasn't trying to make a joke and that is the difference.
Some of these posts just boggle my mind. It as though people are actively looking for ways to try and justify what Richards did, dismiss the actions because it was the hecklers fault to begin with, or sweep it under the rug by saying it doesn't really matter. All this makes me think is that some folk (don't know color so I won't say) would like to use racial slurs as way of insulting people, which in fact does make you a racist.
