Kramer, unreal to hear this in the news Options

[Jdog1385]

Michael Richards you broke my heart and you ruined one of my favorite television characters. You embarrassed and offended me, not only as a white man, but as just a man.

To live in such a time when great leaps of advancement in technology and medicine can show the universe how bright and charismatic we humans can be, you come about and show the world how primitive and blatantly hateful our pathetic existence is.

Seinfeld, the series, may have ended in 1998, but this past weekend was the death of Kramer and the dawning of a bigot. How sorry we all should be for what has transcended. When the sun rises tomorrow I ask we learn from Mr. Richards' hate and accept each other as what and who we are, not black, not white, just humans.

[saleeka]

I personally feel that insulting/attacking anybody over anything that is outside of their power or their core beliefs (race, religion, sexuality, broken home, disability, etc.) is highly inappropriate and should not be tolerated...

Obviously circumstances are different in every situation, but 99.9% of the time I think that it is incredibly ignorant to give equal weight to any minority making fun of "white" people vs. a white person making fun (or degrading, as most often it is) of any minority... When a black person calls you (assuming you are a white person) a cracker, do you feel any less of a person? I highly doubt you do, because as someone with white skin, you have been looked at as a peer in society for as long as history has taught you... On the flip side, if you put yourself in a minority's shoes (go back to history class now), how often have they been oppressed by "white" society (read European descent with Christian roots)? If you care to disagree I will call you ignorant with no shame, because society in our country as a whole has very rarely looked at anyone else other than "that" definition as a peer. With that weight on your shoulders, you have to deal with people who innately feel superior to you with no basis other than "that’s just how I feel, and nothing you can do will prove me otherwise" attitude. How powerless does a group of oppressed people feel when that is thrown in their face? No matter how hard they try to assimilate into the culture, they still are below the "majority" in some people's eyes, and it is used as a weapon... So when a minority points out the ridiculousness of "white" culture (or the animosity towards), I feel that they have a much better basis to support that argument, versus some people's argument that "anything other than white is below us, just because..."...