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Originally Posted by static-harmony
This is just a publicity stunt.
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I sort of got that feeling about it. Like when Andy Kaufman got on David Letterman. But I don't know.
I was kind of disturbed watching the apology. I felt really bad for the guy. He looked like he has been through hell. And people were laughing. There was nothing to laugh about. It was kind of sick and sad. There is no forgiveness in America for doing something he did, and he knew it, and Jerry knew it, and so did David Letterman. He apologized for his actions, but from now on, he is going to carry the stigma of being a racist. Soon enough, they'll probably have Peter on Family Guy watching Seinfeld and Kramer blurting out something racist. They'll probably have SNL jokes about it, etc. He's a guy I know a lot of people have really come to love in his role as Kramer, and to a lesser extent his roles in film, and he's completely defamed himself by a momentary loss of control.
What he did was completely wrong, but I think everyone is capable of doing what he did, which is the really scary thing to me. We still have that hatred inside of all of us, and it may be several generations before it fades away, but of course by then, new hatreds will arise.