Quote Originally Posted by Marigold2
I agree with Sophist. What Richards did was not cool, not cool at all. However have you ever had the misfortune of having to listen to that crap they call rap. It is not music, it's *&^&^%%^%!!!!!!!!
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Always nice to be agreed with, but the rest of your post is not what I said at all. I can very clearly see the distinction between a black person saying n****, and a white person saying it. And in this case, there is a major difference in intent. Michael Richards is clearly saying it in anger, to provoke and degrade. My post simply mentioned that those two particular individuals (and not every rapper and black person who has ever used a racial epithet casually) sank to just as low a level when they were screaming racial slurs and threats as well, out of anger, to degrade and provoke.