03 March 2010

Who you callin' racist?

Michael Richards, better known as Kramer from Seinfeld, gave this defense speech in court after being convicted of making racial comments in his comedy act.
There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, and then there are just Americans. You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction. You call me 'White boy,' 'Cracker', 'Honkey', 'Whitey', or 'Caveman', and that's okay. But when I call you Nigger, Kike, Towelhead, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink, you call me a racist.
You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you, but why are ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
You have the United Negro College Fund.
You have Martin Luther King Day.
You have Black History Month.
You have Cesar Chavez Day.
You have Yom Hashoah.
You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.
You have the NAACP.
You have BET.
If we had WET, we'd be racists.
If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.
If we had White History Month, we'd be racists.
If we had any organization for only whites to 'advance' our lives, we'd be racists.
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce. I wonder who pays for that?
A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but a woman of any color can be in the Miss America pageant.
If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships, you know we'd be racists.
There are over sixty openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US, yet if there were 'White colleges', that would be racist.
In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.
You are proud to be black, brown, yellow, and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists
You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member, or beats up a black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.
I am proud, but you call me a racist.
Rico says it is Kramer talking, after all, thus a little over the top, but there is, just maybe, a double standard here...

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