I think those hecklers were far more out of line than Michael Richards. They were heckling a nice old man to the point where he exploded and now the media is trying to make him look like a monster. everyone has had racist thoughts at one time or another. And he apoligized and said he wasent racist and he was just calling those hecklers niggers, and not the whole race itself. He just lost his temper. Also those hecklers then called him cracker-ass and whatnot. I know it dosen't have the same effect but it had the same intention. If a black man exploded on a white man like that it would be on comedy central, not the news.