For Those Who Never Heard Michael Richards Racist Rant.....

It's my opinion Michael Richards actually had a breakdown. He always seemed a little off kilter to me. I think that's why he was only able to play that one eccentric character on Seinfeld. He didn't seem to have any more characters in his repertoire, no more arrows in his acting quiver and this is the reason all  (and there were many) attempts failed to build a show around him. He felt his failure very keenly and doing stand-up in a comedy club must have seemed like a big come-down to him. So you have an already angry, somewhat unstable man standing onstage like a bundle of dry kindling just awaiting the right spark.

 When he came out with those first awful, unforgivable, racist comments, he had already dug a hole too deep to climb out of. His clumsy attempts to do so and the audience response to him ( they started getting up and leaving) made him angrier and more desperate. He blew it totally then walked offstage. His apology was pathetic because, perhaps, deep down he is a racist and humbling himself and begging did not sit well. Also, I really believe he was in the throes of an emotional breakdown.

The proof is in the fact that we have seen almost nothing of him since then, he has kept such a low profile. And also in the fact that he is being charged with an unprovoked attack on a photographer just a few days ago.  He goes down in television history as a racial hate spewing one trick pony. Now he has added violence to his  biography.