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(A different perspective on the Kramer issue)

When ‘Kramer’ of Seinfeld’s racially charged outburst and the African American outrage over this is considered, the obvious is that what you are allowed to say and get away with is relative to your racial background.

Permit the unique twist in this post because I have not seen this point of view widely expressed elsewhere where ‘Kramer’ is” discussed.

Does being Black qualify someone the freedom to insult Caucasians with racially charged slurs yet when the same is reciprocated, all hell breaks loose? This double standard is so blatantly echoed every day on television, on the streets and in our homes.

This brings me to a couple questions…

• What qualifies Blacks the freedom to, without warrant use the word ‘nigger’ in their day to day dialogue amongst themselves or when referring to each other when the very word historically has derogatory connotations?
  

• What qualifies Blacks the freedom to use the word ‘nigger’ so loosely in their music notwithstanding the fact that Caucasians listen to their music also?
  

• What qualifies popular Black comedians like Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle the freedom to throw racially charged insults at Caucasians, even going as far as to call them ‘crackers’ (the white equivalent of nigger) with little or no recourse for this?

Is it that our blackness ‘qualifies’ us the inherent right to be racist towards ourselves and the Caucasian race?

If you watch the ‘Kramer Video’ on

www.tmz.com, you would notice that he himself (and by extension Caucasians) was insulted once or twice on the same set when the heckler called him a ‘cracker’ (among other things). Where is the outrage over this?

It may appear that way, but racism is not the catalyst for the offensive tirades of ‘Kramer’, Mel Gibson, Dave Chappelle and others. 21st century Racism directed towards Blacks rather, is the result of our own (black) internalized racism. We are our worst enemy in this regard. What Kramer did was wrong, but we have wronged ourselves to a greater degree.

Indirectly, we fuel the fire each time we say, sing or rap the words ‘nigger’ or ‘cracker’ and every racial outburst, every racially motivated attack is a sign that the fire is growing out of control.

There are two solutions; abolish (pun intended) the concept of qualified freedom and make it acceptable for anyone to use the words ‘nigger’ or ‘cracker’ without recourse or in the alternative, stop using seemingly racially derogatory words altogether. The most reasonable seems to be the latter right?

In the end, as a ‘civilized’ society, it serves us well to simply STOP speaking hate.

Nigger = Hate; Cracker = Hate; Qualified freedom = Hate.

From my heart to yours,

Akhenaton