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He apologized, for goodness sake. Let's get on with life. Witness the post-Christian PC Inquisition at work again. It makes Torquemada look tame. They don't want your blood; just your money and abject humiliation. Any unfortunate dolt who says something out of hand, or in a fit of rage, is doomed to appear before some leftist Inquisitor General, grovel on his knees across the piazza del Televisione while he awaits his date to appear before the Great Tribunal to see how much cash he must fork up to atone for his PC transgression.

No, I donl't think he was right - not at all! He made a complete ass of himself. I'm just fed up with those who inveigh against the Inquisition (don't agree with that either)and tamely roll over when some drunken actor or looney-tunes comedian has a bad day (or too much alcohol or drugs)

Christians get bashed, insulted and dissed every day, all day, in the liberal media and egg head intelligentsia circles, and no one is calling for a mass media repentance binge. They should all read White Guilt- twice.

They're offended by what he said? Big deal. No one is guaranteed a life free of being offended. They need to get over it and get on with their own lives.

Nikos said:
"He apologized, for goodness sake. Let's get on with life. Witness the post-Christian PC Inquisition at work again."

I agree that the reaction to the event was overblown. So I guess that Richards will have very limited opportunities to perform from now on. Unless the KKK holds a convention.

Makes me wonder... has anyone ever tried to put together a 12-step program for racists?

I believe I know what "a racist" is, but I'm sure all those black comedians who use the N word, also use "whitie," and "cracker" etc. - actually, I've heard them. Does their use of racially pejorative, condescending terminology make them racists? They were using them in the context of their routines, and it is surely distasteful to many, but it doesn't necessarily make them racists - offensive jerks maybe, but not hard core racists.

But when you think about it, people should be held far more accountable for what they say in pre-arranged speeches or routines, than when they lose their tempers big time. We've recently had two white men (Richards and Gibson) raked through the media coals for loosing thier tempers and venting racial epithets. Yes, there IS a violence factor, and the person's whole motherload of seething racial animosities and/or hurts, comes pouring out (Black, White, Hispanic, et al.). Most of us give people a little slack when they lose it; but the law does hold folks accountable for what they do when angry, with certain caveats: but rarely what they say.

I don't question the fact that he was wrong do say what he said. But I think a firm rebuke and one public end-it-all apology is quite enough. When we're all up in the air about what some two-bit comedian or actor says, and lambast those who declare partial birth abortion (or any abortion) wrong and sinful - we're in big trouble.

"I believe I know what "a racist" is, but I'm sure all those black comedians who use the N word, also use "whitie," and "cracker" etc. - actually, I've heard them. Does their use of racially pejorative, condescending terminology make them racists?"

It's been said that only white people can be racist. I thought that was a ludicrous statement to make, but it has been said.

Perhaps racism per se isn't the sum total of the problem here. Perhaps it's the means that one racial group uses to keep power (social, economic and political) in its hands and out of the hands of other groups. I think perhaps that is what makes this sort of thing such a big issue for folks like Allen Johnson or Leonard Pitts.

It's just a guess on my part.

A bit of subject here but the concept that only whites can be racist is what is taught in the White Studies programs in some of our colleges/universities. Just google white studies and see the poison in the air!