Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Say it ain't so, Kosmo

This is two and a half minutes of disturbing footage. No matter how bad heckling may be, when it sparks an outpouring of racial epithets it reveals a whole lot more about the Heckled than the Hecklers. As a Seinfeld fan I find this particularly disturbing, something along the lines of finding out Babe Ruth corked his bat. The show Seinfeld was always very lacking of ethnic diversity, especially considering it was set in the great melting pot of cities; New York. But Kosmo Kramer seemed the most racially blind of the central characters. He was friend to all sorts of people--like Silvio the hispanic superintendent, Sid the African-American that parked cars on the block and Ping the Chinese delivery boy. But fiction and reality are very different things, and Michael Richards will have a hard time getting past this venomous diatribe.

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