If you've been living under a rock, then you probably haven't heard about Michael Richards losing his cool on stage at the Laugh Factory last week.

The melt down began with heckles from the audience and went from zero to 666 in point 5 seconds. If you haven't seen the abhorrant tyrad click in and watch it right here:



To say this is shocking is a great understatement! Here we see the man that the public relied on as loveable Kramer on NBC's hit tv show Seinfeld reduced to a man addicted to "Rage-ahol" (Simpsons reference. Yes, you should feel bad if you don't get it.) If you want to read about some of her other rage induced episodes, click in to Margaret Cho's blog.

I don't believe that his on stage attacks were a product of embedded racism, rather, the result of a weak man with an anger problem resort to the lowest common denominator to obviously inflict pain.

It backfired.

Of course, racial jokes are par for the course in comedy. Horrific racial slander directed to an individual in an audience... eh, not so much.

When a control addict creep wants to put the world down he's obviously upset about something and it probably had nothing to do with that guy interrupting Mr. Richards' flow. It could've been anyone, it could've been me. But, thankfully it wasn't... I was in Toronto that night, because I live there.

So what's happening now? Mr. Richards has engaged in a PR tour to repair his damaged reputation. Probably the most press the fading comedian has received in a decade. Well, in my mind, it doesn't matter if he appeared on Rev. Jesse Jackson's radio show to his sincerest apologies and to defend his anti-racism.

Apparently, Richards told Jackson that he had not used the language before and that the devasting rethoric came through him "like a freight train". I find it hard to believe, but, I'm neither the judge nor the jury.

In the end, I'm disappointed, when you see hate magnified it rattles your faith in ever reaching a truly tolerant community. Like Margaret Cho said on her blog "Has the White Power Movement ever had a celebrity spokesperson?"

No, I don't believe so.
But, now they do.
Congrats Mr. Richards.