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Poor Michael Richards. The actor best known -- perhaps only known -- for playing Kramer on "Seinfeld" just lost his career because he lost his temper. Rattled by hecklers during his stand-up comedy routine, Richards responded to the black audience members with a tirade laced with the n-word and other obscenities. And just to prove himself an even bigger ass, he described -- in equally explicit language -- what might have happened 50 years ago to black people who dared to heckle a white performer. Richards has since apologized, of course. He didn't mean to say those horrible things. He's not a racist. He just lost his temper. Right. And Mel Gibson wears a yarmulke -- Tom Henderson/Lewiston Tribune.

Question: Do you think Mel Gibson and Michael Richards are racists -- or simply actors who lost their cool as a result of heckling/booze and deserve another chance?

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