text: why is it ok for black hecklers to heckle michael richards. then he is chastised for retaliating.? that is my initial question. soon as a caucasion retaliates, he is chastised. this is descrimination is reverse. are we suppose to walk around with our tails between our legs?? the united states is going to hell in a hand basket and a civil war is looming on the horizon. the entire situation regarding richards is idiotic. we (caucasians) are being abused daily and all we do is say, that feels good, keep abusing us. what happened to freedom of speech. other colors get away with slurs about whites. lets face it folks, descrimination is alive and well and will never go away. a. i agree with you. the answer to this has to do with political correctness.  b. a lot of people are going to say "he made racist comments." now, i ask these people this question: how many blacks, black actors, black comedians, etc. refer to other blacks by using the word "n!gga"? people say that calling a  white person a cracker is nothing like calling a black person a n!gger, but last i checked we didn't take an ethnic slur and turn it into a synonym for "friend."   c. i want to know what the hecklers were saying to him that made him so..... angry. i read in one article that they were half-drunk, constantly talking loud, basically trying to take over the show with interruptions, etc. (and this fits those videos.) heckling is considered making one or two witty comments, and if that article was correct, they were not heckling: they were just being rude. also, were they calling him any ethnic slurs? all of those videos showed the kramer exploding but did not show the other side. also, was kramer just out for shock value? he got it, and the noisy men got up and left.....  d. the united states might seem bad, but it's the media and their brainwashed followers that are turning that incident into a huge issue. (this time, it is not necessarily the government, although our government sometimes handles issues dealing with race in unfair ways, too.) i feel bad for the various countries that have "hate speech laws."  e. it's interesting that you bring up a civil war. in the prison systems and in the majority of high schools, there are what i guess you can call race wars. currently, i've seen a lot of fights between blacks and hispanics. i personally think that- especially during our current immigration crisis- protests similar to the ones that happened during the 60s and 70s have a chance of starting again. when king got shot, for example, a lot of the blacks started violently rioting here in chicago. many also started torching various buildings, etc. (my uncle was a firefighter when this was happening. some rioters were even firing guns at him.) will these start up again? time will tell.