This situation has obviously been blown out of proportion but why is it that everyone here is so willing to equate the general sense of over-reaction to the racially charged side of things rather than the fact that he's a celebrity and everything that involves a celebrity is made into much more than it actually it - - in fact, that's pretty much how a celebrity becomes a celebrity.
Surely you can liken all of this to a Kauffman-esque skit but I just can't see how this situation can be interpreted as anything other than a person with command of a crowd shirking his responsibility to keep everything orderly whilst verbally attacking an audience member.
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NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO CENSOR ANOTHER..... you can take away their venue and make them find a new one..... but you can not silence or fine or punish people because they offend, solely with words.
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Well in actuality, you most certainly can censor another person and the ability to do so is basic and an intrinsic to our personal freedoms.
I can't see how suing for anything more than the ticket price is plausible but there certainly is a case to be made for going to a venue and being publicly ousted and embarrassed simply because of the color of your skin.
Regardless of who started it, heckling a comedian is rather common as is a verbal exchange between a heckled comedian and his hecklers. However, it's rather obvious that Richards, as the commander of the crowd, had the responsibility to keep things civil and not only did he shirk that responsibility but he verbally assaulted someone in the process of "losing it".
The extent to which he is monetarily responsible for the situation is a case for the lawyers involved but I can certainly see how the men in the crowd could sue Richards as well as the venue.
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What I find really ironic here is the fact that everyone gets pissed off about the fact that a white man says "nigger", but nobody including many black people are offended when a black rapper has a song filled with the word. In fact those songs seem to sell rather well.
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Seems to me like you did little more than skim the first few sentences of the first post. Simply put, your words are nonsensical as well as off-topic.
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It makes me so happy that someone else knows this as well. Something is only as offensive as ytou allow it to be. Instead of giving a very old and misused word power, people should just let it go and realize that some people are racist assholes, and taking away their power is more fun than playing at the superbowl with Joe Montana.
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There is a big difference in the two situations, but if nigger is such an end all bad word, why tolerate anyone using it for entertainment any more than using it to spread hate and bigotry?
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I have an internal war with myself every time I consider what I should have for lunch - how could anyone consider it remotely possible to organize an entire race of people to have a similar stance on anything? It isn't the responsibility of blacks to neutralize the power of racism by ignoring it - it's the responsibility of us all to respect the differences between every individual and our govt's job to protect us irregardless of those differences.
...if we build the world out of ridiculous concepts we should expect a ridiculous world...