The racist sentiment in this discussion is disturbing. Of course there are despicable black people and despicable white people; they're inherent in any population. Kramer just so happened to have some disruptive black people in his audience. But mischief is inevitable in any atmosphere -- Kramer should know this. He made a generalization that degraded the black race based on a sample of a few disruptive black men. I can pick out a few disruptive white men and women and then make the same generalization about the white race.
The underlying issue here is that black people and minorities are at a socioeconomical disadvantage. But it is ludicrous to say that this disadvantage implies inherent flaws and inferiorities in certain ethnicities. The middle class mires minorities in segregated ghettos and puts them at an educational disadvantage. We, the privileged, are the perpetrators of their socioeconomic disadvantage.
We stole them away from their homeland, brought them into slavery, and now we impose cultural oppression. We still have yet to make amends and pay the reparations. Affirmative action is not motivated by racism -- it's a means of fixing our mistakes.
