Comedians Using the N-Word: Andy Dick, Michael Richards....It's Not a Joke!

This time, it's Andy Dick who had a "Michael Richards" moment. Andy, a one-hit wonder who got lucky on the TV show "NewsRadio", was at L.A.'s Improv Comedy Club, when he shouted, "You're all a bunch of niggers!" before leaving the stage.

Huh? Is stupidity contagious?

Terrence Howard, the star of Crash (and a believer in the turn-the-other-cheek philosophy, I guess) tried to give Richards and Andy an alibi: "We gain so much from comedians by giving them an uncensored sense of style and liberty."

Hmm. Those are some pretty-sounding words. But, as my late and beloved Aunt Connie used to say, "Bullsugar."
I'm tired of cowards with a microphone hiding behind the First Amendment. This wasn't a fearless trailblazer like Lenny Bruce who was harassed, arrested, and finally banned from performing in public. This wasn't the controversial Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour being cancelled by CBS. This wasn't the subversive Bill Hicks being censored by David Letterman.

No, this was a cynical and pathetic attempt by Andy, a comic whose career was a "Where Are They Now?" footnote,
desperately trying to get people to pay attention to him again. It was vulgar, stupid and inexcusable.

Whenever I hear a stupid white man vomit the word "nigger," it feels as though a dirty-fingered bum with a bad cold has suddenly grabbed me like a napkin and blown his nose. I still hate the word, and I hate the smug white sons of bitches who casually delude themselves into thinking they have a right to use it.

You don't.

Yeah, I'll admit that you're exercising your freedom of speech. Legally, you're entitled to that.

Morally, however, as an African-American male, I feel that you're exploiting your white male privilege. That's not "freedom"; that's acting out a mental disorder you inherited from your ancestors who imprisoned hundreds of thousands of innocent Africans centuries ago and brought them here.

But you don't own that word anymore, because you don't own me anymore.

Believe me, African-Americans know what happens when white people forget we're human beings and treat us like we're their property: