# 'Kramer' loses his mind (ie: becomes a total racist bigot) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 20, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kramer-loses-his-mind-ie-becomes-a-total-racist-bigot/381171 "2006-11-20T16:46:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kramer-loses-his-mind-ie-becomes-a-total-racist-bigot/381171/1 "2006-11-20T16:46:35Z")
[This video](http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=1&pmmsid=1772645) was just posted over at TMZ (it’s free and anyone can watch it). The video shows Michael Richards AKA Kramer from Seinfeld losing his sh\*\* on stage and basically repeating racial slurs over and over because some people (who are apparently black) are talking during his set. When called on it by the audience, he continues. From the article at TMZ: > [@](#): > > The camera started rolling just as Richards began his attack, screaming at one of the men, “Fifty years ago we’d have you upside down with a f_**ing fork up your ass." > Richards continued, "You can talk, you can talk, you’re brave now motherf**ker. Throw his ass out. He’s a nigger! He’s a nigger! He’s a nigger! A nigger, look, there’s a nigger!" > The crowd is visibly and audibly confused and upset. Richards responds by saying, “They’re going to arrest me for calling a black man a nigger.” > One of the men who was the object of Richard’s tirade was outraged, shouting back "That’s un-f_\*\*ing called for, ain’t necessary.” > After the three-minute tirade, it appears the majority of the audience members got up and left in disgust. Yowch. It’s hard to read the text on screen and understand at parts, but you get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kramer-loses-his-mind-ie-becomes-a-total-racist-bigot/381171/2 "2006-11-20T16:48:01Z")
Hie thee to the Pit, m’dear. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kramer-loses-his-mind-ie-becomes-a-total-racist-bigot/381171/3 "2006-11-20T16:49:09Z")
Well, I’m not really ranting about it. I’m simply displaying the video of it happening. I suppose if this needs to be moved to the appropriate place, I’m fine with that. I guess _sniff sniff_ _dramatic tear wipe_ ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kramer-loses-his-mind-ie-becomes-a-total-racist-bigot/381171/4 "2006-11-20T16:50:39Z")
[Beat you by four minutes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=397013). ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kramer-loses-his-mind-ie-becomes-a-total-racist-bigot/381171/5 "2006-11-20T16:53:47Z")
Yeah, I just noticed that. I’m going to go slink back in my hole now. ☹ Curse you and your super thread posting skills, Diogenes! Wait, is that considered a threat or insult outside of the Pit? See, this is what happens when I post after staying awake all night to work on papers- I make no sense and confuse even myself! ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kramer-loses-his-mind-ie-becomes-a-total-racist-bigot/381171/6 "2006-11-20T16:56:36Z")
Don’t feel bad. I started a thread about this, too. In the pit. Redundancy is the name of the game today. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kramer-loses-his-mind-ie-becomes-a-total-racist-bigot/381171/7 "2006-11-20T17:26:46Z")
…Ummmm… Wow. At first I was sort of along for the ride thinking maybe he was going to build to something…maybe a point… yeah that didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kramer-loses-his-mind-ie-becomes-a-total-racist-bigot/381171/8 "2006-11-20T18:57:44Z")
What a shame–a tragedy almost–to see someone crash and burn like that. I love _Seinfeld_, and his character is a big reason for that, but now it’ll be a while before I can think of that show without thinking of … this.