Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2007 12:30AM
Why is it such a big deal?
Rappers can talk all day about "nappy headed hos" and nobody says
shit. But when a 60-year-old white guy says it, everyone freaks out.
News Flash: There is nothing racist about the phrase "nappy-headed
hos." The phrase is sexist -- but not racist at all. Any woman can have
nappy hair, and any woman can be a ho. You don't have to be black to have
either of those characteristics.
I'm pretty sure the Rutger women are so offended because the truth hurts.
shaDEz Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2007 12:44AM
hmmm i missed something
oh well, sure i'll jump in
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2007 01:22AM
Here we go again, Social Acceptability, if you don't like someones opinions
then don't fucking listen to them, it really is that simple.... like I said
before "da bruthas er finin ta play da victims", that is all they
know, they should share the Lifetime channel with the women, you know "The
Victims Channel".... We're equal but we want extra, someone needs to break
it to them that equal rights = equal work!
Also anyone that has that one lowlife piece of shit on anywhere instantly
losses all credibility, just another fat playa.
shaDEz Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2007 02:35AM
lmao well put
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2007 05:24AM
The whole fuckin deal would have died a nearly painless and surely a quiet
death after he apologized except the usual POSs Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton
weren't about to pass up another opportunity to mug it up for the media and use
the whole incident to get some extra face time, all of course in the pursuit of
furthering their own agendas ... as usual.
These 2 fuckers might actually garner some sort of plausibilty if they actually
managed to speak out against racism as a whole instead of clinging so
desperately to the idea that only whites are capable of racism. If they even
just once were to speak out about the racism depicted within their own culture
towards others their thoughts might have some sort of validity, but ..... I
damned sure ain't holdin my breath till anything that rational ever ocurrs from
either of these fukstiks.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2007 10:31AM
Just another example of political correctness gone wrong. There is no reason a
white man should be persecuted for saying the exact same things black people say
all the time. If Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have their way their would be a
war between the blacks and whites, which may still be on the horizon somewhere
in time. I was always raised to know that words do not harm us in any way, but
sooner or later someone will start punctuating their words with bullets and that
will be sad.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2007 04:01PM
The reference Imus made the the women's tatoos and general rough-looking nature
of the team should be put in place as the context of his statement. Although it
was in poor taste I see nothing wrong with it - certainly not racist.
There was also a reference made to the team looking akin to the Raptors, now
those are some punk-looking SOB's! Uh-oh, I must be a racist as well.
The way people present themselves outwardly is a key responsibility that seems
to be lacking among the black pop community. Having a rough image might be great
if you want a hip-hop appeal but it hardly compliments the talents, skills, and
trustworthiness of the individuals that decide that image is for them.
shaDEz Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2007 08:11PM
alright, being the problem solver that i am, i just figured out how to fix this
whole problem... simple, just remove all of the white men from radio and replace
them with black men; then eryone on the radio can say anything they want to and
eryone can be happy... hell they can have an hour long segment of just saying
the 'n' word repeatedly and no one will be offended... they can say the most
sexist shit all day long and all the feminist dyke types will only smile and
laugh
see problem solved
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2007 09:46PM
How come when the Dixie chicks pissed off half their fans those bitches cried
foul and not fair!, if Imus pissed of his audience let them decide if they want
him or not! fucking MSM is bullshit.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: April 11, 2007 10:01PM
why anyone gives a rats ass what the host of the shitiest show in radio history
says is beyond me.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 12, 2007 10:07AM
All the shit going on in the world and this is what you keep seeing all over
the news, fluff, they don't want to spend time on real issues that would take
some thinking, more corporate media propaganda....
And yes I have to mention those two backstabbing fake hoars that fuck
"their own people" for there own PROFIT and POWER! Why don't those
guys go to the hood and serve some food that they just gave to their people,
their suits cost more than the average black guys monthly pay, if you like those
guys you are a piece of shit and "you only hurt you never help".
If the blacks don't want to take personal responsibility then Fuck'em, you're
not supposed to help people by doing for them, it's called "help" they
do it and you help them, not you do it for them but it's still not good enough
so they bitch about it.
I Have a Dream"... Profit!
jgoins Report This Comment Date: April 12, 2007 11:43AM
I have no problem with blacks getting rich, that is the American dream, but I
have a problem with them doing it with the race card. If it was wrong for white
people to get rich off the backs slaves then it should also be wrong for blacks
to get rich exploiting racism like Jesse Jackson, Louis Faracant and Al Sharpton
do. These 3 people do more to seperate the races than the KKK ever did we the
American people in our political correctness help them do it. Martin Luther
King would have just faded into obscurity if he had not be killed, now he is a
martyr instead of just an activist.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: April 18, 2007 02:42PM
This guy gets it.
COMMENTARY
Imus isn't the real bad guy Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock,
black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.
By JASON WHITLOCK - Columnist Thank you, Don Imus. You've given us (black
people) an excuse to avoid our real problem. You've given Al Sharpton and Jesse
Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe
and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true
economic and social equality. You've given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the
chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised
as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor. Thank you, Don
Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in
victimhood, protest like it's 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that
fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred. The
bigots win again. While we're fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant,
bad shock jock, I'm sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the
Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50
Cent's or Snoop Dogg's or Young Jeezy's latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps
and hos.
I ain't saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don't have the
heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas. It is
us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths
to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and
overtaken
by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture
is
anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing
and
violent. Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and
wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of
repeating the things we say about ourselves. It's embarrassing. Dave Chappelle
was offered $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white
people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes
about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud. I'm no Don Imus
apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out
with ESPN. Imus is a hack. But, in my view, he didn't do anything outside the
norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also of fered an apology. That should've
been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it's only the beginning. It's an
opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and
elevate themselves and their agenda$. I watched the Rutgers news conference and
was ashamed. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March
on
Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied
fundamental
rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of
her
players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian
Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had.
Somehow, we're supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually
no
connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers' wonderful season. Had a
broadcaster with credibility and a platform in the sports world uttered the
words Imus did, I could understand a level of outrage. But an hourlong press
conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is
already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is
opportunism. This is a distraction. In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat
to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so
powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should
we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in
the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive? I don't
listen or watch Imus' show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling
crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other
randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it's cool to be a baby-daddy rather
than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they're suckers for
pursuing education and that they're selling out their race if they do? When Imus
does any of that, call me and I'll get upset. Until then, he is what he is - a
washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you're not looking to be
made a victim. No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the
gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger
platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show.
There's no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to
sit it out. To reach Jason Whitlock, call (816) 234-4869 or send e-mail to
jwhit&
#108;ock@kcstar.co
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