Eventually, a protester shot four employees and set fire to Freddy’s, which burned to the ground. Seven employees – all of them minorities – died.
Jackson and Sharpton. These are the new gods of race merchantry to whom all others must apologize?
Next, the kettle will be apologizing to the pot. And the pot will say it’s not enough.
For the record, Michael Richards – contrary to reports in the media and by his own misinformed publicist – is not Jewish. He is a lapsed Catholic of Italian descent (neither of his parents is Jewish). He made a similar rant against Jews, back in April, calling them “Christ-killers.”
But, unlike the two black targets of Richards’s latest tirade, the two Jews victimized by Richards’s anti-Semitic outburst did not hire a lawyer. They are not seeking money or any kind of redress. Maybe they know that prostituting your dignity by seeking money from a bigot only takes away your dignity even more.
And maybe they know that desperate, insincere apologies won’t change a thing. Richards’s rants – the same is true of Jackson’s and Sharpton’s and Mel Gibson’s, too – are what the man really thinks.
We should leave it at that. And all of their careers should be over forever.