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N-CENSORED Mooney in action When Reverend Jesse Jackson asked you to meet with Michael Richards, what did he say to you? He said, "We want you to talk to this man, because you know him." I went in, and [Michael] grabbed hold of me. He held on so tight—he was so happy to see me. I supported him, gave him tough love. I understood it, because he had started out as a stand-up and he was funny, and then he got involved with that sitcom and they were licking out of his butt. He was the darling of the discotheque, getting all that instant love, which we comics all want. Then he came back, and time had changed. The audience turned on him. They were very vicious, and they hurt him. And he reached into his bag of hell and tried to come back with the most horrible thing he could say. He didn't even know that was in there. And he freaked, 'cause a lot of white people agreed with him. He didn't wanna be the head of the Klan. He didn't like it. "I got a call from Whoopi Goldberg. She said, 'I know you're the ambassador for the N-word. I have to get a one-week pass. I have to cuss some black folks out'"Now, I'm a Jew, but I'm also white— Talking about and using the N-word has been a huge part of your career. How has it been restructuring your act without it? Have you slipped at all? It's hard, obviously, not being black, but even as a Jew— Stockholm Syndrome.
NOW YOU SAY IT, NOW YOU DON'T Past N-word practitioners Richards and Pryor What I was about to say is, when I was in junior high school, I got "kike." I got swastikas on my books. Yes! Yes! But I think because of appearance, we don't get it with the same intensity. Exactly. Is it possible, then, in our lifetime or in our children's lifetime, to do away with racism? How?
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