Poor Pitiful Bruised Psyches

OK.

Here we go again.

Let’s all jump on the “Poor Pitiful Bruised Psyches” band wagon. I am referring, of course, to the Michael Richards’ (the actor who played the Seinfeld character “Kramer”) outburst at the two black hecklers.

Mikey goes on the Jesse Jackson talk show, “Keep Hope Alive”, as a part of a series of apologies for the incident. What a stupid fucking name for a show that is. The only thing Jackson wants kept alive is racial strife! Without that, he’s out of a job. He says he wants racial harmony, but he’s the first to blow piddley shit like this into the entertainment headline it is today.

Stay on target.

Hecklers. Every comedian has to learn to live with them. It is an art to deal with them properly. I know this from personal experience. I did not have to deal with many hecklers, as I only performed at open mike nights and they were very rare at those. As a professional, I would expect that Mikey has had his fair share of those types of people. But the bottom line is this: If you have the balls to heckle a comedian – one you paid to see – you had better have the ability to suck it up when he rains down upon you.

This pansy-assed hurt feelings bullshit just doesn’t wash when you look at the fact they were the first to open their mouths. Imagine where we would be if Don Rickles, the king of insult comedy, had to deal with this type of shit!

Other minorities can make racial slurs, such as my favorite, Carlos Mencia, and they don’t get slapped with this shit. But a white guy?? Now he’s just being racist!

Stay on target.

Mikey’s publicist “Howard Rubenstein, said Saturday that Richards has begun psychiatric counseling in Los Angeles to learn how to manage his anger and understand why he made the racist remarks.” (AP News Sun Nov 26, 2006)

PSYCHIATRIC COUNSELING?? Are you fucking kidding me??!! He made racist remarks because he was angry, provoked, whatever. I guarantee you that these bastards claiming “injury” have let fly several racial epithets at non-blacks!

I realize that two wrongs don’t make a right, but adding another wrong – the highly publicized and blown out of proportion circus we now have, including counseling and acknowledgment “’that his statements were harmful and opened a terrible racial wound in our nation,’ Rubenstein said. ‘He pledges never ever to say anything like that again. He's quite remorseful.’"(AP News Sun Nov 26, 2006) – doesn’t help any, either!

Everybody just needs to grow the fuck up! Why can’t we all just get along? I’ll tell you why, Rodney, because there’s no money in it for the greedy! There’s no press for the tired old pimp that trots out the same tired old hookers called “Racism” and “Inequality”. Is this really worth getting all up in arms about?

That’s all I’m saying: Have we, as a society, degraded to the point that this minor rhetorical bullshit is all we have at which to gasp in shock and horror?

I do not think so.

God, I hope it isn’t, or we are in deeper shit than anyone imagined.