We've all lost control at some point, unless we've got our emotions locked up or don't feel things like others do. I would never use a racial slur, but it's because I didn't grow up around racism. Never learned the words, so I never had to learn not to use them. Growing up, the concept of hating a person because of their race or religion or most anything besides them being horrible did not exist for me.

There were racists in my neighborhood, but it was lily-white and, other than the couple that owned our local store/meat market, Christian. No targets around for people to demonstrate their racism at. I never even heard a racial slur until I was 10 or 11, and then I had to go ask my parents what the word meant. No judgement - nobody can control what they're exposed to as kids and what gets stored in their 'words to use when you really wanna wound somebody' file.

Performers aren't perfect, but I still really do believe that Richards' outburst was worse for coming from a man supposedly in control and influencing a club full of people. He wasn't putting on a show so much as becoming one.