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Blacks, on the other hand (whom Michael Richards attacked) are the darlings of American liberals -- assuming they're loyal and obedient liberals as well. Knocking blacks is something one simply does not do if they wish to have any friends at all. Blacks are given much more social latitude than any other ethnic minority in America, which is why there are Jesse Jacksons, Cynthia McKinneys, Al Sharptons and gangsta rappers thriving in the first place, all of whom can make pretty much any racist statement they wish with impunity.

Then, there are the other unfortunate points of fact:

1) Richards wasn't drunk at the time of his attack on the hecklers (as far as we know).

2) His on-camera amends were bizarre, pathetic and vacuous.

3) Although Seinfeld was a monster hit and Kramer (Richards' character) was memorable, Richards just aint the talent or the player Mel Gibson is.

4) Richards' attack was personal, whereas Gibson's was made to a police officer, whom people perceive as getting paid to endure abuse, regardless of whether a slur is directed at them or not.

5) Finally, there's the protracted, venomous, and graphic verbiage in what Richards said to the two black men -- which was subsequently broadcast over the entire globe -- again, and again and again.

"You'll never work in this town again!" was an oft-employed oath used in films when a character ran sufficiently afoul of the wrong people in Hollywood. While the verdict is still way out on Michael Richards, it's already apparent that at least one of the two offenders will have plenty of work for some time to come.

Once again, as with much of the increasingly absurd and unbalanced social convention in America, many forms of emotionalism, warped logic, human frailty and, of course, malignant sociopolitical machinations are in play. At the end of the day, I still see media-driven, socialist politically-correct dogma and conscientious Americans' faintness of heart in honestly addressing the phenomenon -- and elected officials who support it -- as being far more to blame than a couple of entertainers' one-time use of repellent and obnoxious forms of expression.

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