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Actor and Comedian Michael Richards, who is most famous for playing Cosmo Kramer on the successful television sitcom \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Seinfeld,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d exploded in a racist tirade at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood last Friday night. In a cell phone video obtained by TMZ.com, Richards is shown to have directed the N-word several times to a black audience member who the on-stage comedian felt interrupted his act. Some members in the crowd continued to laugh at the comic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s outburst, while others were horrified and left. Richards issued an apology on, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Late Show,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with David Letterman, but denied that he was a racist. Jamie Masada, owner of the Laugh Factory, issued a statement Monday in which he declared Richards \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no longer welcomed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the comedy club. However, the Saturday night following Richards\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 racist outburst, the comedian returned to the Laugh Factory and performed again.<\/p>\n For more information, visit Project Blowed<\/a> and Robert Jensen’s homepage<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GUESTS: Robert Jensen, Professor of Media Ethics and Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, author of several books including \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Heart of Whiteness : Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Ben Caldwell, Executive Director of Kaos Network, and co-founder of Project Blowed, the oldest running hip hip open mic in California Actor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/ffximage\/2006\/11\/21\/kramer_wideweb__470x306,0.jpg\")
GUESTS: Robert Jensen, Professor of Media Ethics and Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, author of several books including \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Heart of Whiteness : Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Ben Caldwell, Executive Director of Kaos Network, and co-founder of Project Blowed, the oldest running hip hip open mic in California<\/em><\/p>\n