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First it was Mel, as in Gibson, now it’s Michael, as in Richards. I’m sure none of you has ever heard of the latter, but he’s a big shot in America, especially among those with brains smaller than a pea. Richards played a character in Seinfeld, a programme about emptiness which is no longer on the air. I suppose celebrity is harder to give up than heroin because last week Richards used the N-word while doing a stand-up routine in a small Los Angeles club, calling two black guys who were heckling him ‘dirty n——s’.
Well, he sure got back his celebrity in a hurry. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, two of the most egregious race hustlers, got in on the act immediately, rightly denouncing the comic as a racist, and then blaming the white man for every ill that has befallen the black man throughout history.
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