Kramer comic Michael Richards Apologizes on Letterman Racist

Michael Richards publicly apologized for his racist tirade in an appearance on "The Late Show," but acknowledged that such sentiment had the potential to "come[s] through and fire[s] out of me." He tried to find an awkward parallel between his ugly rant and conflict that has arisen between blacks and whites since Hurricane Katrina.

Looking sallow, drawn, and speaking in halting fragments, Richards explained via satellite from Los Angeles to David Letterman and friend Jerry Seinfeld in New York, that he had lost his temper after some members of the audience interrupted his act and that he "took it badly," unleashing the racist invective that TMZ first aired this morning. He apologized to the people who took "the brunt" of his abuse, saying he was "really busted up," but then went on a strange tangent on race relations, saying he was "concerned about hate and rage" and about a "great deal of disturbance between blacks and whites" after Hurricane Katrina.

Richards did not say whether any other factors contributed to his actions, adding only that he would be doing "personal work" in the aftermath of the incident.

Audience members in the Ed Sullivan Theater, who were watching Richards on a screen, began laughing at Richards at first, thinking that the interview was a comedy skit, until Seinfeld admonished them, saying, "Stop laughing. It's not funny."



Letterman:

"Why don't you explain exactly what happened for the folks who may not know."

Richards:

"I lost my temper on stage. I was at a comedy club trying to do my act and I got heckled and I took it badly and went into a rage and said some pretty nasty things to some Afro-Americans, a lot of trash talk, and uh..."

Letterman:

"And you were actually being heckled or were they just talking and disturbing the act?"

Richards:

"That was going on too."

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Richards:

"...You know, I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites -- everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through, and I'm concerned about more hate and more rage and more anger coming through, not just towards me but towards a black/white conflict. There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there, and for this to happen, for me to be in a comedy club and flip out and say this crap, you know, I'm deeply, deeply sorry.

And I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage..."

Letterman:

"But Michael, let me interrupt here for a second and ask a question about had the people doing the heckling or the people who were not paying attention, had they been white or Caucasian or any other race, what would have been the nature of your response then?"

Richards:

"It may have happened. It may have happened. You know, I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character. I don't know, in view of the situation and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage did go all over the place.

It went to everybody in the room. But you can't -- you know it's, I don't -- I know people could, blacks could feel -- I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this, and yet it's said, it comes through, it fires out of me and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself."

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[NoNamesleftlol]

The problem with all this racism is just that whites shouldn't call someone the n word but blacks shouldn't call someone a cracker.....I mean most people don't think that Honky or Cracker are being racist but it is just ridiculous, everyone should get along!

[nespokesman]

Says alot about you.

[DjDoxastic]

@TheMackDamage lol.. alot of people are Freemasons, not a big fucking deal, shaq is a mason, tom delong from blink 182 is a mason , and so on, nothing to special about them, just a old old secret society, no devil warship or illuminati bs, the real "illuminati" are the zionist assholes who own the banks/media/governments

[imaStonesFan]

People need to get over it.

[SRgoonz]

he shouldn't appologize. ive been to shows where black people are constantly talking. no respect.

[sk8terz11]

he's a loser



[CaliAgents1688]

@schlager1983cfh Wouldn't happen in a million years. Gibson is an anti-semite (Jew hater) and Kramer is a Jew. Do your homework nigga, Livewire for hire biatch!

[TheGreatDeciever55]

Kramer could call me a nigger anytime----of coarse im not black though.......

[TheMackDamage]

Fuck "Kramer" with his fake ass apology . I lost respect for him and his comedy all his stunts, "funny expressions " will NEVER have the same meaning again!

Fuck him ! He also admitted being a Free Mason Openly seriously!

[gotmyfingerrscrowsed]

hope some nigger puts a capin his ass

[schlager1983cfh]

kramer and mel gibson should get together and write a book about hating other races. lol. I'd buy it!