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[lumberjim]

"I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this," Richards said, his tone becoming angry and frustrated as he defended himself in a clip from the show played on CBS before "Late Show" aired Monday night.

if you're not a racist, it wouldn't occur to you to use a person's enthicity as an insult. you wouldn't see it as a negative attribute to be ridiculed. even if you did 'lose your mind' you would have no reason to go there at all.

what he should have said was that he doesn't want to be seen as a racist. that he understands that it is a failure of his.

People are raised with the memes of their parents, peers and role models. If immersed in a bigoted environment during the period of life when you establish your values, it stands to reason that you will take on aspects of the environ. Knowing on a conscious level that it is an illogical and mainly reprehensible position to be 'racist' does not change the fact that your perceptions of other races, religions, and even genders are constructed on a foundation that are skewed by the flaws of your teachers.

The stress of being onstage, afraid, and terrifyingly heckled has simply cracked the thin veneer he has used to conceal from himself the ugly nature of his racisim. guess what Mike? you're a racist.