Everyone knows that Michael Richards (aka Kramer) went on a bizarre, racial tirade at a comedy club.
Talk-radio is filled with questions about whether "we" should accept his apology, or if it was racially motivated. (Here's a hint: it was).
But here's the real story, and it is sort of uplifting:
Imagine that you could go back in time to the early 1960s and tell Dr Martin Luther King that in 2006, a guy is caught spewing bigotry onstage in front of 200 people, including an "n-word", which became censored 10 years before. Video of the episode is posted on a vast linkage of computers, and the man has no choice but to apologize on national TV to try, lamely, to save his career.
That's kinda cool... The dream is not here, but things have changed for the better, no?
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