Trying Day For N-word Comic

[a kennedy]

February 16, 2007 -- LAWYERS for black audience members who were the targets of Michael Richards' N-word rant at the Laugh Factory last November plan to hold a "mock trial" of him at Loyola Law School in L.A. tomorrow.

Richards was invited to a face-to-face, Saturday afternoon meeting at Loyola Law by Gloria Allred, the publicity-loving lawyer for the four patrons seeking face time with the former "Seinfeld" star. But Page Six has confirmed that an assistant to Allred rented the Loyola courtroom for what the school's events and scheduling department describe as "a mock trial."

Sources familiar with the event say the press has been invited and that Allred plans to have "cameras rolling" while the comedy club audience members who were on the receiving end of Richards' racist tirade wait for his arrival - details she did not provide to him or his lawyers.

Richards and audience members Frank McBride, Kyle Doss, Patrick McLucas and Siobhan McLucas supposedly all want to discuss the notorious incident - what Richards' lawyer, Douglas Mirell, calls "an opportunity to sit down and talk."

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix/pagesix_u.htm

[msongs]

1. will it be a trying day for all the N-word rappers as well?? nt

[WinkyDink]

2. I get your point, but it's from Time Immemorial that "blood" (and family, friends)

can say things "outsiders" may not, dare not, and ought not.

Rappers may individually deserve criticism for their lyrics, but the collective adoption of white America's favorite epithet for their race, in order to take away its power, should not, IMHO, be part of it.