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The chilling sounds of gunfire on the Virginia Tech campus; the hateful taunts from Saddam Hussein's execution; the racist tirade of comedian Michael Richards.

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Michael Richards Won't Attend Mock Trial

Comedian Michael Richards won't attend a weekend mock trial with four black people he targeted during his racial rant at a comedy club because the gathering is open to the media and amounts to a publicity stunt, his lawyer said Friday. Attorney Douglas Mirell said any meeting between Richards and the three men and one woman should be private.

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Richards, Offended Club Guests to Meet

Michael Richards will apologize in person to the four black patrons he targeted in a tirade of racial slurs during a recent comedy club performance. A retired judge will mediate the meeting and determine whether he should act further to resolve the matter, Richards' spokesman and an attorney for the customers said Friday.

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Mel Gibson Feels Michael Richards' Pain

Though he's lost many fans after being captured on video hurling racist epithets at a comedy club audience, Michael Richards has an ally: Mel Gibson. "I felt like sending Michael Richards a note," Gibson says in an interview in Entertainment Weekly's Dec. 8 issue.

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Black Leaders Seek End to Use of Slur

Black leaders on Monday challenged the entertainment industry, including rappers, to stop use of the racial slur that Michael Richards uttered in his tirade.

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On Radio, Comic Apologizes for Tirade

Comedian Michael Richards said Sunday he did not consider himself a racist, and said he was "shattered" by the comments he made to two young black men during a tirade at a Los Angeles comedy club.

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Men Seek Apology From Ex-'Seinfeld' Star

Two men who say they were insulted by actor-comedian Michael Richards during his racist rant at a comedy club want a personal apology and maybe some money, one of the men and their lawyer said Friday.

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'Kramer' Apologizes, Hires Crisis Expert

First he went on national television to apologize for his racial tirade against two black hecklers. Now Michael Richards is taking his contriteness to the next level: he's hired a public relations expert with deep contacts in the black community.

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Richards Apologizes for Racial Slurs

Michael Richards said Monday he spewed racial epithets during a stand-up comedy routine because he lost his cool while being heckled and not because he's a bigot.

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Congratulations to everyone on the Fox News team. Obviously, it takes a total team effort to be the Leader on cable news. The best way Americans can honor the men and women serving overseas is to be informed about the issues confronting our country.

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And with each episode in the long-running Saga of Race in America, a string of characters lines up to react to the latest eruption. The media records them as they take up positions in the Great Race Debate.

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More Than Skin Deep: Amount of Racism Increasing?

About a year ago, two days before the anniversary of the march in Selma, Alabama Katie Couric delivered a stunning report through on CBSt: Is the KKK coming back? Apparently, the Anti-Defamation League found traces of the KKK in 19 states with members up to 5,000 in some.

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Larry Thomas, the actor who played the Soup Nazi on "Seinfeld," is interviewed via audio podcast and transcription by Mr. Media, a.k.a., Bob Andelman.

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The Racism Fairy cannot be seen by the naked eye, but evidence of her handiwork is at once obvious. She causes a wave of racism to overtake her victim, making them spout racist slurs very much against their will.

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Seinfeld's Cosmo Kramer, who became an instant pariah after a racist tirade from the stage of a comedy club was captured on cellphone video, has been in Cambodia with a group that follows the teachings of a 29-year-old Hindu mystic called "Swami G." Seriously.

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a round-robin discussion of words that hurt, language police, fascism, proper use of the word homosexual and how context is everything.

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when someone calls themself ignorant... maybe sometimes we ought to believe them... dude is as ignorant as they come.... --------------------------- JAMIE FOXX DEFENDS USE OF N-WORD: 'I'm an Oscar winner, but I'm a ni**a, too.'

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Oprah dates Michael Richards.

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The "N" Word Reloaded by Darryl James "Michael (Richards) cured me of the word. It's too powerful and there's too much hatred in it and I don't want to use the word anymore." --comedian Paul Mooney on CNN It is perhaps the ugliest word in the English language.

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National Lampoon's take on the Michael Richards incident.

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The Seeded article has various responses to Kramer's rant by Black Comedian's performing in a Toronto Comedy Club , during their 12th annual All-Black Comedy Show Aaron Berg Top Ten Excuses for Michael Richards' racist antics:

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Kramer's Conundrum - Are We All a Little Bit Racist? (with poll)

The following is an editorial by Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic magazine and founder of the Skeptics Society. The full article, published through the free "eSkeptic" newsletter, is posted below because I can't seem to find it on Skeptic.com anywhere.

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Following Michael Richards' appearance on Rev. Jesse Jackson's "Keep Hope Alive" radio show, comedian Paul Mooney and others are calling for the ban of the "N word."

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Sinbad speaks on the Michael Richards debacle

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Jesse Jackson is calling for entertainers to stop using the N-word.

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The National Lampoon puts together a video montage, mixing Michael Richards' racist rampage in with classic Seinfeld footage.

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Black leaders seek end to use of slur LOS ANGELES - Black leaders on Monday challenged the entertainment industry, including rappers, to stop use of the racial slur that Michael Richards uttered in his tirade.

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Let's take a closer look at so-called comedian Michael Richards' racist outburst that is capturing so much press and airtime. The incident, and what has ensued, tells me more about the overall pathetic moral state of our country than it does about racism.

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[T]he "Seinfeld" star showed up as a guest on Jesse Jackson's nationally syndicated radio program "Keep Hope Alive" to apologize.

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Apology Insufficient. Send Cash.

Remember the old saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me"? Well, forget it.

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I've never been a fan of Seinfeld, and I'm not very familiar with the characters. When the show went into syndication a few years ago, I began to come across it whenever I did any channel surfing.

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Michael Richards will appear on the Rev. Jesse Jackson's nationally syndicated radio program to discuss his racist rant at a Los Angeles comedy club, the civil rights leader said Saturday.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two men who say they were insulted by actor-comedian Michael Richards during his racist rant at a comedy club want a personal apology and maybe some money, their lawyer said Friday.

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Here is more footage of the michael richards 'kramer' racist tirade.

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