How can someone "not know it was there" (inside of him) after what he did? Richards screamed "HE\'S A NI___ER!!!!" at the top of his lungs about 6 or 8 times. Not a subtle slip of the tongue.
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Theres a lot of things that people don\'t know about themselves until a tumoltuous moment in there lives. He exploded and lashed out in an obscene way.
Obviously there is more behind the scenes than we will ever know before this event happend and the hecklers brought it out in him.
btw keep in mind that i\'m not defending his actions in any way. The african americans in the audience did the right thing and went to the press and now Richards career is over. Nothing more to be said. He had a legendary character on one of arguably the best sitcoms in television history which will now be tainted and tarred by this event forever.
Aside from any physical harm done to the man I don\'t see how this could get worse for him.
Back to my original point tho "How do people not know its inside of them?".
I made a post when I broke up with my girlfriend of 3 years a few weeks back. When that happend, I found a level of anger and rage inside myself that I didn\'t know was inside of me. All it took was one immensly bad moment to push me to the edge. Long story short, that relationship ended with me saying things that
1) I\'ll regret forever because i\'ll never be able to apologize.
2) Things that made me feel like less of a man for saying.
Did I use race as a verbal attack? No, but I said things that before that night I thought I was not capable of saying. No matter how mad I got.
Maybe that isn\'t the best analogy to compare this all to. But I can totally understand losing yourself in a fit of rage and finding things out about yourself that you might not of known were there. Weather its blatant racisim or something else. It can happen.
