Comments on: Michael “Kramer” Richards Has Meltdown http://www.jasondunn.com/michael-kramer-richards-has-meltdown-50 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:01:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jason Dunn http://www.jasondunn.com/michael-kramer-richards-has-meltdown-50#comment-49 Jason Dunn Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:47:26 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/michael-kramer-richards-has-meltdown-50#comment-49 An interesting <a target="_blank" href="http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=5175e705-3339-46d0-b772-335954e7be03&f=imbot_us_default&fg=rss" rel="nofollow">follow-up video</a> has been posted - I'm sad to see blood-sucking lawyers get involved and talk about payments and settlements...Richards is an idiot for what he said, but it's not against the law (freedom of speech can be ugly) and the "pain and suffering" they're talking about seems ridiculous. Money can't solve the problem here. An interesting follow-up video has been posted - I’m sad to see blood-sucking lawyers get involved and talk about payments and settlements…Richards is an idiot for what he said, but it’s not against the law (freedom of speech can be ugly) and the “pain and suffering” they’re talking about seems ridiculous. Money can’t solve the problem here.

]]> By: bradrian http://www.jasondunn.com/michael-kramer-richards-has-meltdown-50#comment-46 bradrian Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:42:52 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/michael-kramer-richards-has-meltdown-50#comment-46 I was like you, at first thinking that he was trying to make some point about how people react to certain words. What shocked me almost as much was hearing him plead "I'm not a racist!" I don't know how much he ACTS in a manner that's racist, but for such vitriol to come out so aggressively there has to be a well of racism buried somewhere deep within him. We all have at least some tiny bit of racism inside us, but what defines the moment is whether or not we allow such ugliness to actually affect our thinking, our actions or our motivation. I was like you, at first thinking that he was trying to make some point about how people react to certain words. What shocked me almost as much was hearing him plead “I’m not a racist!” I don’t know how much he ACTS in a manner that’s racist, but for such vitriol to come out so aggressively there has to be a well of racism buried somewhere deep within him.

We all have at least some tiny bit of racism inside us, but what defines the moment is whether or not we allow such ugliness to actually affect our thinking, our actions or our motivation.

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