Paris Hilton was supposedly caught on video tape bad mouthing two black guys who had just been politely talking to her about the fashion business.  She used a word that I won’t use here because I like having advertisements and such.  This happened in 2004, the pre-YouTube era.  The tape has never been broadcast and it’s possible that no copies exist.  There is a complicated situation involving pornography, blackmail, kidnapping, assault, all kinds of stuff; nobody ever really focused on the racism of Paris Hilton.  It would seem that all she lost as a result of the brief bit of press about it was her friendship with the daughter of Lionel Richie.

Michael Richards used the same word, several times, after two black guys were impolite to him during his standup comedy routine.  In the era of video phones and YouTube, millions of people got to witness his act of rage.  He is in a lot of trouble.  The people he spent years working with stand to lose a lot of revenue from lost DVD sales of Seinfeld.

Comparing the circumstances of the two similar incidents doesn’t account for the different outcomes.  I can only conclude that the action is more offensive coming from a man than from a woman.

Snoop Dogg is the real winner in this, almost nobody is paying any attention to where his life is going.