Michael Richards -- Forgive and Forget?

Michael Richards is back after a two year hiatus -- as in... he went underground after that whole racist rant thing.

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Richards chose Venice Beach as his venue and a photog brought up a good point -- Dog the Bounty Hunter and Don Imus were forgiven way quicker.



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1. Welcome back! We love you Michael Richards!!!!
Now make me laugh!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 1:00PM on Jan 5th 2009 by DB Cooper

2. Love you Michael!

Posted at 1:01PM on Jan 5th 2009 by Rachel

3. Love, love, love you Michael !

Posted at 1:48PM on Jan 5th 2009 by Rachel

4. Hang him up and stick a fork up his ass! He is into that!
This D-Bag needed a good ass kickin!
His behavior generates haters!

Posted at 1:08PM on Jan 5th 2009 by fish taco

5. His apoligies were very heartfelt, and I thought his tirade was just HILARIOUS (I am black...well half anyways)! I've never seen a comedian tear apart hecklers like that! But anyways, if a black man had been saying racist comments about a white man, no body would of cared. Michael Richards is still a comic genious, and is responsible for the single funniest and most love character in the history of television, on the great show ever.

Posted at 1:53PM on Jan 5th 2009 by thun

6. Welcome back Michael Richards!! You are the better person than those who stand in judgment of you. As a natural human response to being heckled, this whole thing was totally blown out of proportion. EVERYONE makes mistakes!

Posted at 1:31PM on Jan 5th 2009 by The Truth

7. Let this be a lesson for everyone out there. Don't use the N-word or any of its variations unless your black. It will ruin your career as well it should. The only good thing to come out of this is that this loser was exposed as a racists.
The N-word belongs to the black race and only we can use it.

Posted at 1:33PM on Jan 5th 2009 by rick

8. Give him a medal for helping expose Jackson and Sharpton as phony frauds of spiritual forgiveness. Also a medal for Chicken of the Decade Award to Jamie Foxx for not following up on his promise to find and beat the crap out of Michael. Big talker Foxx, until you need your next Eddy Murphy he-she Fix. What happens to these Black Entertainers when they get super rich and are made super stars? They have to go on the down low or find a he-she...weird----

I've discovered Blacks are more racist than any single group in America....ask them if they like Koreans, Dot heads, Mexicans or Polish people----they dont and are not afraid to tell you either. Running around blaming White people for everything...

he-she wanna be's thats all they become when they are superstars...or like Cosby and Jesse jackson need love babies and women to beat.

And now we got one of them to lead us? Gee, wonder what he will do about Israel and Hamas? He's so quiet he acts like he's never made a decision as a Community Organizer who only voted Present.

Whats it gonna be Obama? Ask Oprah for advice---she'll tell you.

Posted at 1:33PM on Jan 5th 2009 by Liars

9. Sigh

Racism is alive and well in the U.S.

Always will be.

Sad, really.

Posted at 3:39PM on Jan 7th 2009 by nana

10. He spoke the truth. What's the big deal?

Posted at 1:42PM on Jan 5th 2009 by Barack Obama

11. The guy made one mistake and paid for it. I, for one, would love to see him come back. Besides, he's incredibly funny.

Posted at 1:53PM on Jan 5th 2009 by Georgia Girl

12. Aww C'mon, everybody and their brother knows that white people will forgive this guy, if they havent already. They are unaffected. And......dude is jewish...all he has to do is mention his background and some great uncle that survived the holocost and his racist rant is forgotten. It's the same mindset of people that looked the other way when Woody Allen married his daughter but still accuse MJ of molesting little latino gold diggers!

Posted at 1:51PM on Jan 5th 2009 by Quetou

13. 6. Let this be a lesson for everyone out there. Don't use the N-word or any of its variations unless your black. It will ruin your career as well it should. The only good thing to come out of this is that this loser was exposed as a racists.
The N-word belongs to the black race and only we can use it.

Posted at 1:33PM on Jan 5th 2009 by rick



Typical example of reverse rascism. Perhaps if the black people are offended and don't want the word to be used, they shouldn't be using it themselves. What hypocrites.

Posted at 1:50PM on Jan 5th 2009 by Truth

14. Don Imus didn't even use the N-word, so how is it even the same?? He made a distasteful joke about a college women's basketball team and they weren't even that upset about it. Not the same thing at all.....

Posted at 1:52PM on Jan 5th 2009 by sejphill

15. That's crap and you all know it the N-word is not just for blacks when black rappers and black comedians perform at sell out venues that are made up of mostly whites and say the N-word all thru the show if you dont want to be called the N-word dont use it and others wont feel like it is cool to use the words dont take a negative word and make it a cool word to use and people wont use it. p.s i am black and so i expect to get alot of uncle tom comments from blacks but i put this question to you if i am a uncle tom and you are a down brotha what have you done to help black people i bet nothing the real uncle tom is the blacks who dont get up and go to work and go to school and get their education and contribute positively to the world instead of sitting on their butts passing blame for there own situation off on the white man.

as for blacks being racist their are some who are but not all blacks are racist i think as a people we are not very trusting of other race's. we have only had civil rights since the 60's and for about 15 years those rights were still very limited and we still dont enjoy the same freedoms and opportunities given to white's but we will get there together racism is a sickness that can be cured if we all put the effort in and do the work.

Posted at 1:56PM on Jan 5th 2009 by battlecat

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