| GRASPING FOR STRAWS: Don Imus The Bigot |
| Wednesday, April 11, 2007 |
Now it's been a hot minute since morning radio personality; Don Imus referred to the players on the women's basketball team at Rutgers:
IMUS: That’s some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos and –
McGUIRK: Some hard-core hos.
IMUS: That’s some nappy-headed hos there. I’m gonna tell you that now, man, that’s some — woo. And the girls from Tennessee, they all look cute, you know, so, like — kinda like — I don’t know.
McGUIRK: A Spike Lee thing.
…ROSENBERG: It was a tough watch. The more I look at Rutgers, they look exactly like the Toronto Raptors.
Well I agree with Al Sharpton and his cronies on one issue. This comment was horrible and should never have been said and deserves the sincerest apology. However I disagree with him and his fellow radicalists when it comes to the whole "boot him off the air" crap. We live in a free society, we must allow the market to dictate whether or not Imus stays on the air. It is NOT our call. Why doesn't Rev. Sharpton and Rev. Jackson get their act together and deal with the real issues facing Black America? It seems their only job is to cry foul over anything and everything that takes place, but forget about the countless times where the term "ho" comes from and who it is most primarily used by. I don't see this a race issue as much as I see it as a gender issue. We need to quit getting up in arms over the small faux pas that plague our airwaves....
You didn't hear quite the same type of outcry when these words were uttered over the national broadcast on HBO: "More people in the world would live if Vice President Dick Cheney died", political commentator Bill Maher said on his HBO telivision show. Unlike Mr. Imus, Bill Maher spouted out something slightly more hatefilled and intentional... But where are the "White Civil Rights Leaders" defending white people who are victims of a "bad joke" over our telivision set or radio broadcast?
Maybe we need to get over ourselves as a nation and quit looking to only see things in black and white. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are living in this fantasy world where they believe they can keep African-American people down to a degree in which they are convinced they constantly need to be patrionized and apologized to. That is not the road to true equality, and that is something at least the Republican party has realized and has come to grips with.
Maybe here in America we need to quit being so bashful about talking about race. If you are racist then you should be shameful and be scared to talk about race. But if you see things as they are with no personal prejudice then you should get a dialogue going about this. Nothing makes Americans progress more with civil rights than keeping the activists out of the limelight and letting nature take it's course; Americans finding out on their own that skin color is not an indicator of a different heart that bleeds different blood. It's common sense people... This Don Imus crap is just another distraction from the real issues surrounding the African American community. Pay attention to self made people like Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice... I would listen to their perspective alot quicker on this issue than Rev. Sharpton who feeds off of any publicity stunt he can find for his own political gain. Thank you all, and God Bless you Rutgers' Women's Basketball team, and God Bless you Don Imus, Only HE can know your heart.
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I agree, our whole society is bit too sensitive when talking about race.
Sure, what Imus said wasn't exactly enlightened...but it's radio, what can you expect?
Imus has even repeatedly said anti-semetic remarks, but I didn't see Sharpton lead a media battle for his head, much less make a remark in the interest of civil rights.
But then, that's probably because Al Sharpton HATES JEWS.
The whole situation isn't about fairness or civil rights; its about opportunistic airtime (for the supposed civil-rights leaders) at the expense of one man's career.
In other words, hypocracy. It's just like when the media railroaded those (innocent) Duke Lacrosse players.
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I agree, our whole society is bit too sensitive when talking about race.
Sure, what Imus said wasn't exactly enlightened...but it's radio, what can you expect?
Imus has even repeatedly said anti-semetic remarks, but I didn't see Sharpton lead a media battle for his head, much less make a remark in the interest of civil rights.
But then, that's probably because Al Sharpton HATES JEWS.
The whole situation isn't about fairness or civil rights; its about opportunistic airtime (for the supposed civil-rights leaders) at the expense of one man's career.
In other words, hypocracy. It's just like when the media railroaded those (innocent) Duke Lacrosse players.