Correct me if I’m wrong but in all the years that Seinfeld was on the air there were maybe three black people featured on a few episodes. These people were usually in roles portraying people in various servitude capacities including waiters and store checkout staff. They also featured a character that was obviously a parody Johnny Cochran. So it does not surprise me in the least to find out that Michael Richards, the guy that played “Kramer,” is a full blown racist. They (YouTube, MSN, etc.) even have proof of this fact on streaming video for all the world to see.
We as a country have not come as far as we may think when we can watch in plain view an angry famous white man turn to the old standby “N” word as if he uses it everyday. Richards actually said: “Shut up! Fifty years ago we’d have you upside down with a f—— fork up your a–.” Now that’s not what I call progress! His hotel is probably missing a set of white sheets. All Seinfeld episodes should be pulled from syndication and destroyed, never to be veiwed again.
Racism is alive and well my friends and now we can watch it in all of its disgusting glory via the internet. If the earth shakes tonight it’s because of millions of slaves, activists, black leaders, and abolitionists turning over in their graves.
Thanks for this update. Surprising how its been so quiet – if the shoe had been on the other foot with a black actor in the wrong you know every media outlet in the country would be blasting the footage on repeat. I won’t be allowing that show to be shown in my home ever again.
Wow! I’m guilty of being a faithful Seinfeld watcher and Kramer’s character was one that I really liked. It’s really sad when you hear something like this, but it’s a reality check at the same time; we really haven’t come as far as we thought. It’s a shame that people are SO ignorant.
it’s striking how close beneath the surface this is. generation after generation have been raised with these land mines implanted in their brains so it’s not surprising when they go off. i only hope it thins out in future generations.
it was also interesting how Paul Rodriguez was quick to come out and condemn Richards, yet this is a guy who’s made his whole career out of ethnic stereotype jokes (latino).
I am commenting. I commented about this on another site. What was really disturbing to me was the very apparent reference to lynching. Yes, what he said about the fork was done to folks who were lynched. He went ahead and said what would have happened 50 years ago to the black man. Umm, that would be again, lynching. Truth is, calling him a cracker is not even on the same level as that humiliating thing that was said to the black folks who were there. Comics point out differences and irony between races, regions etc. all of the time. That makes us uncomfortable, but we laugh and think and move on. If he asked the black men were they rapping etc. or something along that line, we would have laughed and moved on. He went too far. His reference to what would have happened if this was 50 years ago alerts me to the fact that he knew what he was doing, saying and implying. Not funny on any level.
‘Seinfeld’ has nothing to do with Richards’ comments.
He apologized on The Late Show, and was laughed at by the audience.
How did Richards’ heckler respond? He called Richards a ‘cracker’. No one’s behavior that night was exemplary.
It’s me! I’m coming out of hiding for this one. Thanks for the comments all. It’s very interesting to see the varied responses especially on such a touchy subject as race. The only thing I’ll say for right now is that there is a very significant differance than between the “N” word (used prior to and during lynchings and as cops hosed down civil rights activists, etc.) and “cracker” (used in ’70s sitcoms along with honky, used in early English to describe an obnoxious person, used by president Jimmy Carter jokingly, Georgia is proudly known as the “Cracker State,” and the word mostly refers to “whip crackers” who drove cattle back in the day). Thanks again!
Actually, the actor who played to Johnny Cochran parody, also played a guest in a party scene in a Seinfeld episode from the first or second season. SO, not only did they have vey few Black characters, but they reused the same African American actor!
Hello,
Just wanted to let you know I linked to your blog in my column on CBSNews.com today. Thanks!
If you want to take a look, here’s the link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/20/blogophile/main2201947.shtml
Thanks,
Melissa
On Michael Richards’ Racial Tirade
For the record, I’m an equal portion blend of African American and
Choctaw Indian, so I have the unique perspective of having gotten the
American “stick” twice! And, I’m going to use my 12 seconds of fame
to micro-essay the “Michael Richards Incident” as I see it:
1. The African American men should NOT have heckled Richards…that
was unprofessional, and if they were not enjoying the show, the men
should have simply requested refunds, which I’m certain would have been
granted.
If this had been comedians Michael Collier and Steve Harvey in Richards’
place, this incident would either have not occurred, or Michael or Steve
would have handled it as I have seen both of them do so before, and win!
2. On the other hand, Michael Richards, as far as I know, is JEWISH
(NOT WHITE, as depicted by America’s standards), as was *ALL* of the
Seinfeld cast, if memory serves correctly. So, as a Jew, and given the
Jewish holocaust history, as well as its experiences in the United States,
I’m genuinely perplexed as to where the hell Richards gets off sounding
like a white Southern hood-donned KKK racist from the grand old USA?
Interesting…I have an answer, but that’s another issue. No, hell, I’ll say
it now…
Far too many nationalities who can be deemed and accepted as “white”
from a cosmetic appearance in our wonderful “Malace In Wonderland”
society, still do so with complete fervor. Even some African Americans
are guilty of having a history of doing so when this cosmetic feature was
readily available to and suited them. And, perhaps, some still do today.
3. From the video, I did not see or hear the African Americans calling
Richards racial epithets that opened and led to Richards’ tirade. Per my
viewer, they simply stated that he was not funny…hardly a racial epithet.
However, they did react with racial epithets *after* Richards had used
the N-word several times.
I hope that Richards and others, whom I assume, are of the “white”
persuasion spewing their racial venom in response to this incident, as
well as any other nationalities (African Americans, Hispanic Americans,
etc.) included, who are equally racist, DON’T believe in God, Heaven or
Hell.
Because, to believe in them, will mean that they can STOP assuming,
accepting and lying to themselves that most of their ancestors (including
their dead racist mommas and poppas) are singing gloriously to angelic
harps in Heaven, and otherwise accept the Biblical FACT that most of
their ancestors are, indeed, already on fire and are, not burning, but
ever roasting in Hell for all eternity.
America’s past, present and future, as a whole and in my opinion, is best
analogically described as an insane patient on a psychiatrist’s couch
where the doctor has exhausted all avenues of medication and is now
simply collecting the patient’s insurance for as long as the insurance
company keeps paying. Unfortunately, neither patient nor psychiatrist is
remotely aware that both medication and insurance is about to come to
an abrupt end.
Kenny Love
http://www.myspace.com/kenlove
kennylove@MuBiz.com
The comments by Richards were sad and pathetic. Please don’t think that his thoughts are shared by other white people. Most white people don’t ever see color, but the media loves to overexpose the small fraction of disgusting racists.
Thanks for taking me off center stage; racists like Michael just don’t understand that I proved a black man can’t get justice in this country!
Not that I approve of what he said, but there is a big difference between Gibson and Richards. Gibson was drunk (no excuse), pulled over, arrested, calling a cop a jew and going off on an anti-semitism rant (to a government official).
Richards was attempting to perform as an artist in a theatre. No matter how idiotic he was, artists are given great latitude and allowed to push the envelope of decency without any repurcussions. Lenny Bruce fought this fight decades ago in order to allow all the comics (no matter what ethnicity) to say what they want as art.
Look at the garbage the National Endowment for the Arts puts out funded by taxpayer dollars. That should upset you more than one moron spewing a bunch of racial garbage on his own dime.
No one has shown what these gentlemen said prior to the rant by Richards. I know the tape does not show what they said prior to his infamous “fork” line. What were they doing to set him off? The hecklers obviously hurt him very deeply to send him off the deep end. If they did not like the show prior to the rant, they should have left and asked for their money back rather than heckle him and selfishly ruin the show for everyone in the audience. The hecklers were drinking (They said they were ordering drinks when he went off.) Has anyone asked if they were intoxicated or in full control of their faculties when they started heckling. It’s too easy (and Richards made it that way) to believe this whole incident was Richards fault.
Richards does have the freedom of speech to say what he wants even if he does make an ass of himself. The audience members were free to leave (and get their money back), which they did.
Would any of us be complaining if he took out his anger on another race. I doubt it. And now they want money from him. If that is the case, then no artist will ever be able to perform again.
The culture of victimization must end. Do not empower an idiot like Michael Richards. Ignore him. He is a moron. Michael Richards can not injure you unless you let him. His words have no credibility unless you let them.
Do not criticize him so easily before you take a hard look at yourself. All of us are discriminated against no matter what race we are, and yes, all of us discrimnate against others whether we want to admit it or not – whether it is thoughts or actions. The important thing is that you recognize your own biases and better yourself.
There are so many more aggregious examples of racial discrimination that could be addressed rather than waste our energy on a stupid comic.
I’ve seen a have a dozen or so top name comics live and pretty much everyone of the offended me in one way or another. Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, George Carlin, Sam Kinneson, and Chris Rock were all pretty offensive. Richard Prior and Jerry Seinfeld are the only two comics I have seen that did not offend me. But the one thing they all do is make you think. It should occur to you that that is precisely what they are trying to do to you. They are trying to tweak your sensibility and make us laugh about our own failings. Chris and Robin do it very well.
Michael Richards was probably trying to do the same thing and failed miserably. He will be paying the price for the rest of his life.
The first place to start to remedy the situation is with yourself. Vow to never use the word again. Vow to never let the word affect you again. Go back and watch Richard Pryor talk about his trip to Africa (Live on Sunset Strip I think)and how he felt. It brings a tear to my eye every time I see it. Rise above it all cause it ain’t nothin.
PS. Remove all the epsiodes and destroy them…? Well then, we’ll have to destroy pretty much everything. Should we apply that remedy to Chris Rock for his own racial insensitive comments. Separate the actor from the character and the show. Michael Richards is not Kramer and he is not Seinfeld. He is an idiot that happened to do an exceptional job on a television show… that’s all.
OK go ahead and rip me now. It won’t bother me because I will have made you think. (See above in reference to empowering other’s words). If you take an honest look at yourself and your own biases, I will be happy for you no matter what you think about me.
Peace and Love….
OK, IT WASN’T NICE, HE ACTUALLY LOOKED LIKE HE WAS HAVING A BREAK DOWN. BUT MY PROBLEM IS…….WHY IS IT OK THEY KEPT YELLING AND CALLING HIM”CRACKER”, THAT’S NOT RIGHT EITHER, FOLKS!!
People, please quit saying Jewish people are not white. Just because the phrase goes Jews and Gentiles does not mean Jews are not caucasians. Jews are white people. There was a time the Irish was considered not white, but they are too! check the link below:
http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/no-irish.htm
I know some might be thinking WASP = White Anglo Saxon Protestants, but lets be realistic in our comprehension. Does any european have African ancestry in there biological make-up except for stating mankind began in Africa? google Richard Leaky (anthropologist) // I will let you answer or research that yourselves.
Enough of whose white and Jewish…*smile*
On to Micheal Richards rant:
Seriously Karen, or anyone else, the African-American gentlemen did not stoop to name calling until on the way out the door. They were civil and ONLY ONE told Micheal Richards what he was saying was uncalled for. But Mr. Richards kept with the supremacy hatred jargon, and only then, did ONE of them use the word “cracker.”
The hilarous part was when the Black man told Mr Richards NOT only was his act was lame, but he was nothing outside of Seinfeld, had no other shows, and had nothing else to lay claim to fame….*smile*…The heckler, walks out and get a better laugh than the professional joke teller, humorist or satirist….*Now that was funny!*
Did anyone NOTICED how that WOKE Michael Richards out of his high and mighty attitude of whiteness, he hung over their head? This was a defining moment for him, he realized, “yes I am white, rich and just made a complete idiot of myself!!”
Michael Richards didn’t even know how to apologize because people walked out on him. That is what’s bothering him, NOT the name calling, or racial hatred about lynching. People walking out, that was extremely HUMBLING at that moment!!
I am going to play Devil’s Advocate here…….
I have been reading that Michael Richards is now going to meet the guys and apologize to them. Good…. The story said a judge would mediate and decide if he should pay them compensation. Their attorney, Gloria Allred says they were deeply scared. She claimed they were held “captive” in the audience and that entitles them to compensation.
What a joke…..
Let examine the situation. Michael Richards was at his workplace fullfiling a contractual obligation to the Laugh Factory. He was harrassed in his workplace. He was the one held “captive” since he had to stay on the stage while being harrassed or breach his performance contract (which would have cost him his income).
His reputation was being damaged by the words of the hecklers in front of his clients (the rest of the audience). His reputation has been ruined due to the hecklers instigating the exchange. Let’s not forget if the hecklers would have kept their mouth shut, none of this would have happened.
If anyone owes anyone money, it is the hecklers who owe him.
If you are going to start trying to be part of the show (by interupting it via heckling), then you should be prepared for the person you are HARRASSING to try to do whatever he can to save the show. (Not that I agree with what he did, see above).
Do not dismiss how emotionally upset the hecklers made Richards (to go off like he did). If you do, then you should dismiss any emotional damage to the hecklers. Otherwise, it is hypocritical. Do not try to say the emotional damage is different. Each individual has their own emotional vulnerabilities. The hecklers vulnerability was race and Richards’ was his skill as an artist (or skill he thought he had). You can say, “Yeah, but this is race and that is more important.” Not true. You know how you feel when you are verbally abused. Then you should recognize and accept that someone else may feel exaclty the same pain even if you say, “That wasn’t bad what they did to him.” Well obviously, to him, it was that bad. We all have our own emotional triggers. To some people calling them stupid or not funny could inflict just as much damage as a racial slur.
The point is that if you intend to hurt someone and you say something that achieves that objective, then you have inflicted emotional damage. I would say that interrupting an artist’s show to tell them they basically suck (and humiliate him) in front of the whole audience is just as bad.
However, I don’t believe either party should pay a dime. If he is forced to pay these guys off, then I am calling Gloria because Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock owe me a boatload of money……..
I would like to know if the reader’s believe he should pay them off……..
I have been verbally abused and humiliated many times in my life, racial slurs and otherwise. But I choose to not give the power to the abuser. I do not give them the satisfaction of even knowing how deeply they hurt me. I hear what they say and think what an ignorant fool……
Just think about it…….
Peace and Love……
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AA DAD I hope you post this.
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The Devil playing Advocate is extremely halirious for those of us who are Believers with Faith….*smile*….That is another topic though.
So Mr. Devil why would you advocate anything if your comment line states Enough Already? This has been entered twice on this blog; obviously you are not going any where devil while lending support to a racist, hatred, demagogue of ethnocentrism, euro-centric, power structure scapegoating the innocent patrons, in upholding the RACIST Michael Richards venomous diatribe.
These are your questions(approximately):
1. What were the patrons doing you asked in an earlier post? Does it matter? The patrons were not there to be verbally, and to a certain degree, have mental or physical intimidation imposed on them by the performer.
REMEMBER DEVIL: The performer ASKED the patrons “WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?” The perfomer got an answer and did not handle a simple Q & A properly. He could of told them to take it up with Jesse Jackson, but that is NOT where he went with the answer. Michael Richards became obscene in his behavior. Since some or many are so keen on wanting to know -WHAT THE PAYING CUSTOMERS WERE DOING- before Mr. Richards asked the patrons a question, answer this question. Why was he so acutely aware of them in the first place? NO WHERE IN THE TAPE (in the beginning) does the patrons show disrepect. Richards asked a question, received an answer. THEN an EXPLOSION!!
2. Who are they to order drinks, or were they intoxicated at a nightclub hosting comics? Duh, or is this a Dumb and Dumber question? Were they not allowed to order drinks? Or they are only allowed to get a glass of water if served at all Mr Advocate? Is this just a BYO type of party. You know we don’t buy nothing, we just steal it!…*SIGH*…such racist thoughts flows so easily, an try to back it up with more absurd accusations and chararacter assasination of the patrons….*sheesh*
3. “Are they drunkards?”, is basically how you described them. Whether they were or not does not equate to “I am a rich white man, you don’t interrupt me, because if you do, I will remind you that I LYNCHED YOUR ASS fifty years ago, and put a fork in your ass!!”….But then again, I am responding to the Devil with a pitchfork!
4. Who do they think they are to talk to one another while the skit was being performed? They are HUMAN BEINGS, with other people in a group who can do as they pleased within reason. Now what was so unreasonable Mr. Advocate? People talk at comedy clubs all the time or only white people allowed to talk?
5. Why didn’t they JUST LEAVE? The better question is, “WHY DID THEY HAVE TO LEAVE”, after paying their money for a night at a comedy club? Oh, maybe the next ten comediennes would have made up for the ONE LOUSY Has Been Michael Richards! You think? I bet money they were thinking that!!!!!!….
First don’t equate the NEA with a lousy comic as Michael Richards, than again maybe you could. NEA has been known to display trash and call it art, you think that might have been on Mr. Richards mind while ranting?
Lets finally get one thing straight! The Black Men did not become upset with the N-word. It was Richards repeated mantra of the word, as though he finally got the opportunity to lift the world off his back by using it, and the RACIST garbage which ensued afterwards. You and everyone saw two Black Gentlemen walk out, visually shaken up, and disturbed by this RACIST Hatred towards them for NO REASON at all.
Did one use the word Cracker? Yes. But go back and count how many times you heard this word or any curse words from the men towards Michael Richards.
In conclusion if any Black Comic offends you, why do you or why have you sat there and DID NOT GET UP AND DEMAND YOUR MONEY BACK? Instead of trying to do a comparison, WHY DID YOU SIT THERE and be Offended as you tell us?
Most comics hit the comedy clubs to hone their skills without being paid at times or very little pay, something Richards should have been doing in very small nightclubs, before stepping up to the mic at the Laugh Factory.
With your hypocrisy of he had a contractual obligation and was harrassed. Oh, the BIG POWERFUL WHITE MAN WAS BEING HARRASSED!!!…oooohh, don’t you sound like somebody I would like covering my back if tempers flared, hell you will run faster than a 10- year old little girl!
He was held CAPTIVE! Try telling that to the Native Americans, African who were enslaved and brought here, the Asians who were put into Internment Camps. Hey Knucklehead, that is being Captive.
I guess professional athletes are HELD CAPTIVE and it is okay to Heckle Them?
Since minorities and women have been heckled since the inception of the United States you have simply made my case for REPARATIONS!
Why thank you for ADVOCATING the REPARATIONS CAUSE Mr. Devil.
Hey John…..
who’s the angry racist here…..
Like I said, I read your comments and think what an ignorant fool…..
Anger comes from within. You got a lot of problems….
Who ever said I was white……
Or can’t a black man say enough already…..
Peace and Love…..
Hey Enough Already…
whatever your nationality, it is quite apparent you don’t stand in the corner of the Black men who were attacked.
You and I can go back and forth over this ONE issue constantly because of our different perspectives on it.
My angst of problems are when people such as yourself and others view people of African descent with disdain. But try to cover it up with superfluous words.
It would be nice if a Black Man could be silent, BUT NOT while RACISM exists, and others placate it boldness.
Answer these QUESTION for me: Why is there a Voting Rights Act Bill? And why does it have to be re-sign every so many decades? Do white people have to be concerned about a SIMPLE BASIC RIGHT, such as VOTING?
When truth is spoken, it never ceases to amaze, that people want to silence a person.
Take the truth, digest it, meditate on it, allow for rumination constantly, and maybe then and only then will it be ENOUGH ALREADY!!
Devil’s advocate….I brought up those points for the sake of argument and to illustrate how absurd it is to scream compensation at the drop of a hat. I would not pay him or them.
I do not view any one with disdain. I can empathize with the plight of every individual – no matter what race. Can you? Or do you think, “good they deserve the what they get”. I see injustice and despair and it sickens me. I see those in a higher station than me and have respect for them because, in most instances, they have worked hard to get where they are in life. (Except most politicains – LOL). I see those with less than me and think how strong they must be to endure the trials and tribulations they do. I am not envious or angry because I understand that everyone suffers in their own ways and that suffering can be just as strong for them as race is. To feel good at another’s suffering lessens us as humans.
It’s very hard to put into words because they can be twisted to suit one’s purposes. Again, just watch Richard Pryor in Live on Sunset Strip. He makes the point beautifully. Our point is not different, we feel the same disgust. It’s just ridiculous to scream compensation every time someone gets offended.
Again, Michael Richards is a total dumbass…..Understand that is my stance. What he did was unequivocally wrong.
The anger and hate must stop from within. And believe me I have taken my lumps for standing by my brothers.
Enough Already is a reference to the use of the word by our own race. I hear it 1000 times more out of the mouths of black men than I ever do out of white people.
As to the Voting Rights Act. Your facts are not correct. It is a false argument meant to inflame. Try to think of who benefits from the anger? Do you really think anyone would vote against the extension of Section 5 as needed? Now that would be big news!!! If someone has voted against it in the last 25 years, I would like to know.
Section 5 automatically kicks in if someone tries to circumvent the provisions of the Voter Rights Act. It looks like it causes a DOJ review if any changes are made to voting procedures.
Here is what the Department of Justice has to say about it on their site:
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U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
Voting Section
Voting Rights Act Clarification
The Department of Justice has received numerous inquiries concerning a rumor that has been intermittently circulating around the nation for many months. According to this rumor, the Voting Rights Act will expire in 2007, and as a result African Americans are in danger of losing the right to vote in that year.
The rumor is false. The voting rights of African Americans are guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Voting Rights Act, and those guarantees are permanent and do not expire.
Here is a summary of relevant provisions of the Voting Rights Act:
The 15th amendment to the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibit racial discrimination in voting. Under the 15th amendment and the Voting Rights Act no one may be denied the right to vote because of his or her race or color.
These prohibitions against racial discrimination in voting are permanent; they do not expire.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was enacted at a time when for decades in some areas of the South blacks had not been permitted to vote, and blacks who attempted to register to vote or to organize or assist others to attempt to register to vote risked losing their jobs, their homes, even their lives.
To combat this situation Congress included in the Voting Rights Act — in addition to permanent provisions banning racial discrimination — special provisions containing extraordinary remedies that applied in certain areas of the nation for a limited time period.
Among these extraordinary remedies are–
the authorization of the U.S. Attorney General to send federal registrars (examiners) to register voters, in counties where the local registrar refuses to register blacks. [Section 6, 42 U.S.C. § 1973d]
the authorization of the U.S. Attorney General to send federal observers to monitor elections, to make sure that blacks who are eligible to vote are actually permitted to vote, and that their votes are actually counted. [Section 8, 42 U.S.C. § 1973f]
the requirement that specially covered jurisdictions gain the approval of the U.S. Attorney General before implementing new voting practices or procedures, to make sure that any voting changes that they make are not racially discriminatory. [Section 5, 42 U.S.C. § 1973c]
These special provisions containing extraordinary remedies were intended to be of limited duration. They were originally scheduled to expire in 1970, but they were extended in 1970, and again in 1975 and 1982. They are now scheduled to expire in 2007, if not further extended.
Even if the special provisions are allowed to expire, they can be reinstated by court order if there is a renewal of discriminatory practices.
The basic prohibition against discrimination in voting contained in the 15th amendment and in the Voting Rights Act does not expire in 2007 — it does not expire at all; it is permanent.
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End of DOJ text.
I have no intention of silencing anyone… I don’t understand where that comes from?
To paraphrase Voltaire….. I may not agree with what someone says, but I will defend their right to the death to say it.
Again, peace and love and mutual respect………
Before I get hacked on…. It looks like 33 votes were against renewal of Section 5 in July 2006. I can only guess those nayes figured it was not needed anymore.
This is something that should be followed up on and I wll try to find out more.
It looks like the naye votes in the house were because they felt the act was not being equally appllied to all states.
The link above is an explanation from Norwood. Here’s some of it:
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Proposed Updates to the VRA
As it stands, Georgia remains judged under the voting results of the 1964 Presidential race between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater. Any state with less than 50% voter turnout in the 1964 Presidential election, and which had previously enacted laws that discriminated against minority voters, was automatically placed under Section 5.
We should update VRA to judge states on 2004, rather than 1964 election results. As an alternative, we could consider the last three Presidential elections.
We should allow all areas currently listed under VRA Section 4 to appeal for bailout at the local federal district court level, rather than just in Washington, DC.
We should create mechanisms to add states that discriminate to the Section 4 oversight list.
We should lower the time limit for a clean-record bailout from ten years to five.
A blanket renewal of the current Voting Rights Act without change will unlawfully discriminate against the voting rights of every citizen of every race of the State of Georgia, based solely on where they live, in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution.
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Kind of ironic…
I told myself not to comment further on this, but I simply refused bad information not to be buttress with Truth!!
Please read the Preamble to the Constitution. If you believe in it so much why were your ancestors left out of it, though reading it would make them naturalized citizens at that time? // Then again, maybe yours were not born here, I wouldn’t know….*Sigh*….if they were and you are an end result?….*sheesh*
ALWAYS remember, when trying to use historical facts, make sure not to use a Euro-centric perspective, ONLY! As previously stated, you and I can go back and forth because of one’s ignorance to Opportunity of Equality.
To minimize the methodical, historical details of why the VRA is needed in the first place is complete blindness of the RACISM portray in American History.
Amendment 13, Amendment 14, Amendment 15 & the infamous Emancipation Proclamation, still did not bring the Black man on Equal footing with his oppressors. If you prefer to turn your back on these historical facts, so be it!
WHY is it so HARD for BLACK PEOPLE to view BLACKS in the highest positions of power without saying ENOUGH ALREADY? Even if we fail at the position, why do you seem to keep saying ENOUGH ALREADY?
WHY in the HELL do I need to go watch Richard Pryor, Live on Sunset Strip? Obviously I have seen it!!…What is with you!?
Instead try perusing these links instead:
http://www.civilwarhome.com/blackcodes.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASblackcodes.htm
If you REALLY, REALLY believe the hideous behavior of a people has left them, instead of lying dormant until pricked; well like my sweet momma used to tell me, “Boy, what am I gonna do with you?†and this was when I was behaving well….
African American Dad, I promise NOT to post to this forum topic again, NO MATTER WHAT!…*smile*….It is more fun reading about your escapades with your son….
Your rambling messages are not coherent…
I have no idea what “bad information” you are talking about. The information I posted was directly from the Department of Justice. You will not lose your right to vote EVER….FACT…..TRUTH….
YOU WROTE……
“WHY is it so HARD for BLACK PEOPLE to view BLACKS in the highest positions of power without saying ENOUGH ALREADY? Even if we fail at the position, why do you seem to keep saying ENOUGH ALREADY?”…….
What are you trying to say….What does it have to do with my comments?
Stop living in the past……
“If you REALLY, REALLY believe the hideous behavior of a people has left them, instead of lying dormant until pricked; well like my sweet momma used to tell me, “Boy, what am I gonna do with you?†and this was when I was behaving well…. ”
Enough with the white steroetypes…….
Micheal Richards = Already Enough, are they both the same?
African American men wish they have such stanch supporters, and people quit sterotyping them.
That is not true, I don’t remember when, but there was a black marathon runner and he was real funny. Kramer is a racist but that’s his problem, black people shouldn’t even care.