Nigger.

OK...I said it. I didn't say the "'n' word." Comedian and actor Michael Richards made remarks that were bigoted, shocking, repellent, and deeply offensive. I'm offended by that word and tirade, but why is the Caucasian public-at-large trembling in its boots at the so-called "n-word," when blacks can openly use the word in their public speech and so-called hip-hop culture? When did black Americans get a license they been given a license to use the word? Perhaps while I have had my back turned?

Michael Richards hired a damage control publicist and he met with "leaders of the black community" to make nice. But as Jay Leno asked the other day on his show, what "leaders of the White community" do we have when black people say offensive things about whites?

Despite all of the contrition and the obligatory trip to "rehabilition," the most irrelevant Reverend Jesse Jackson is now calling for a boycott of the Seinfeld box set involving Michael Richards who played "Kramer." I say, let's call on the media and general public to boycott Jesse Jackson, who often exploits these situations to shake down celebrities and major corporations for his own needs and coffers. And then you have the goofy Rev. Al Sharpton -- the same Reverend who associated himself in making false claims about white bigotry in the famous case of Tawana Brawley -- going around making his own tirades in an effort to get his own 15 seconds.

How about asking comedian (in his mind and marketed) Dave Chappelle and his tirades to stop his use of the word and offensive racial references? I know it will never happen, because the situation is different. "Different" at least in the mind of the most irrelevant Jesse Jackson.