Well he lost his MSNBC job.Pretty lame if you ask me. Sharpton wouldn't forgive him so that was the end of it .Guy is gonna lose his life for saying "Nappy headed hoes".
Bottom line, Don Imus made a mistake, he's hardly racist, he called the Tennessee team cute and he's had lots of black people on his show. All this is, is a media witch-hunt. There's nothing going on in the news so they all go after Don Imus because it's got race issues and it's juicy.Don made a f*cking mistake, he didn't say anything I've never said, why can't he just say he's sorry, have a suspension and move on. Now you have all these black leaders, or as I like to call them hypocrites, using this situation to get on TV, it's a f*cking joke.Don's said he's sorry, he's been going everywhere talking about, has met the team, what else do you want? I saw the owner of NBC on talking about and being a complete fake, pretty much selling out Don because of all the pressure and email's he got. You know what, grow a f*cking pair. Everyone gives in to pressure, nobody fights anymore, as soon as there's a problem and people send mad emails people get fired and hated for making a mistake.Don made a stupid mistake but he doesn't deserve this and to have his name ruined over it. The news just ganged up on him/NBC and made this story bigger than it was.Ugh. Makes me puke. What happened to Imus offended me more than what he said to begin with.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ASUFan22 @ Apr 11 2007, 10:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Didn't you say he says stuff like this all the time? If he does I doubt it was an honest mistake.</div> He says off the wall crazy stuff, nothing racist, but just speaks his mind....I've never heard him say anything real bad....
The only reason why I'd see why NBC would make this move..is because of advertising dolars. They lost so many advertisers, and it sounds like they'd have a hard time getting any more to sign on after this.But I agree with you that it was just some overblown horse-crap, with MLK wannabe's going after something that wasn't there.Imus did EVERYTHING so correctly after he made those comments. He should have been forgiven by these people. Yet Sharpton sat in his mighty chair knowing he was the judge and jury because he has the media eating out of his hands believing whatever he says is right.
Al Sharpton is a f*cking crook, I wish someone would expose that creep for what he is. I should start an anti-Al Sharpton campaign.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Apr 11 2007, 10:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Al Sharpton is a f*cking crook, I wish someone would expose that creep for what he is. I should start an anti-Al Sharpton campaign.</div>I'll join you.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Imus isn?t the real bad guyInstead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.By JASON WHITLOCK - ColumnistThank 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 $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.I?m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.But, in my view, he didn?t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should?ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it?s only the beginning. It?s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.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.</div> Jason Whitlock is that big black guy from the sports reporters on ESPN. Awesome article.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.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>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.</div>This is the only type of black man that white people will buy within hip hop. And it's the only type that major corporations will sell. And the gang culture isn't growing. It's diminishing.
Nappy Headed(Racist) Hoes(Sexist). The comments by him seem more sexist to me. The fact that he said "Nappy Headed" brings al sharpton into the picture stirring up a whole race issue to boost his activist publicity. Black people listten to al sharpton and will back him up due to his contributions to the black community. In this case he needs to back off. He should have gotten suspened for a longer time.Women want power, and they ill back each other up to do so. Imus' comments infuriated them. but yo when someone says somethin bout white people well it doesn't really become a big issue as this. I kind of understand when white people say certain comments, because comedians and other blacks say sh*t bout white people like its nothing. Whether or not they are joking or not is a different story. I talk about u crackers and u curry niggaz all the time but I'm mainly just joking around if I say it out loud. In my head well(I dont really mean it.) Just like u crackers on this forum saying nigger likes its nothing, I could careless anymore. Move on through life and make your money, forgive but u don't have to forget, because payback can be a bi*ch. I aint talkin bout this sh*t all day but thats what I say about it, move on niggas and stop being repetitive.This story is like the rats found in KFC. They gon play that sh*t on TV every morning while im eating... This nigga dont wanna see that sh*t. Thats the Media though... They gotta make MONEY
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>This is the only type of black man that white people will buy within hip hop.</div>I know you mean en masse but clearly your large scale stereotype is incorrect as there are a lot of people who like The Coup and Immortal Tech's political stuff.
^The Coup is dope, but they'll never go 4xplatinum for a couple of good reasons.I get your point about the blanket statement though.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SerbBojo @ Apr 10 2007, 03:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>eh it was stupid to say, but I dont see what the big deal is. There are more serious sh*t going on in this world than some idiot making a racial comment. I dont understand why everyone has to act so damn sensitive about this kind of crap</div>because if you hear "some idiot make a racial comment" and let it slide...then you'll have more "idiots making racial comments" and it will become an accepted part of socityI think the guy is a nice guy but these comments he made were just ignorant...these girls worked hard to be where they're at..imagine being the parents of one of these girls and then hearing somebody talk about your daughter as a nappy headed ho?people talk about "it isn't a big deal" but those people have never experienced racism or sexism in their entire life I guaranteeit is a big deal and like I said..if people let things like this slide then it will become an accepted part of society..not like it isn't already an accepted part of society to refer to women as "bitches" and "hos" :no1:
Here's another thing to look at, is that Imus has said a lot of worse things. I forget who, but he accused some other radio host on MSNBC of "being the instrument in the killing of dozens of jewish babies" as well as many other slurs. He made a shot at venus Williams that got no coverage. Why does this get so much press?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Apr 14 2007, 12:21 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Why does this get so much press?</div>CNN said it was Good Friday and a slow news weekend that created this media feeding frenzy.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (playaofthegame @ Apr 13 2007, 09:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>because if you hear "some idiot make a racial comment" and let it slide...then you'll have more "idiots making racial comments" and it will become an accepted part of socity</div> Yeah...almost like rap music...it's okay for rappers to say it....sell it...to white people...but if they repeat it....they are the bad ones. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (playaofthegame @ Apr 13 2007, 09:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>it is a big deal and like I said..if people let things like this slide then it will become an accepted part of society..not like it isn't already an accepted part of society to refer to women as "bitches" and "hos" :no1:</div> I agree, let's start a communist movement where people can only say things that don't offend people. Because like you said...this is serious...a women could possibly be called a 'hoe' over the radio again....
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (playaofthegame @ Apr 13 2007, 07:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>it is a big deal and like I said..if people let things like this slide then it will become an accepted part of society..not like it isn't already an accepted part of society to refer to women as "bitches" and "hos" :no1:</div>Yeah, exactly, it already IS accepted. Don't you listen to rap? Jesus christ. And people attacked me for saying rap was hurting society awhile back.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Apr 15 2007, 07:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Yeah...almost like rap music...it's okay for rappers to say it....sell it...to white people...but if they repeat it....they are the bad ones. I agree, let's start a communist movement where people can only say things that don't offend people. Because like you said...this is serious...a women could possibly be called a 'hoe' over the radio again....</div>I disagree with it being okay for rappers to say it..but it isn't being used in a negative way..it is kind of unneccesary but still...IMO the word should just be completely removed from society but it never will be just like F*ck.And how would be that be starting a communist movement? just because it isn't effecting you it isn't wrong? You're a jackass.How would you feel if you were black and a white person went and called you a "nigger"?You don't even know what it's like ***hole..you've never struggled in your life and never were faced with serious racial hatred or sexist hatred. Just because it isn't happening to you doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Your attitude is the kind of attitude that sickens me. It's suddenly communist and immoral to make an example of somebody putting mental stress on these girls and people in general. This guy's been doing sh*t like this for a long time and I'm glad he's finally getting well-deserved attention for it.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (playaofthegame @ Apr 15 2007, 05:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I disagree with it being okay for rappers to say it..but it isn't being used in a negative way..it is kind of unneccesary but still...IMO the word should just be completely removed from society but it never will be just like F*ck.How would you feel if you were black and a white person went and called you a "nigger"?</div>It's not being used in a negative way? What the hell? The words 'hoe, bi*ch(unless talking about a dog), nigga, and nigger' have no other meaning than something offensive, and that's only like half of what rappers use.How would you feel if you were white and black people called you a cracker, or when everytime you started to protest something a black man does, you have Al Sharpton or some other black man jumping on your throat calling(wrongly) you racist? Not to mention black people call white women as well as men 'nigger, bi*ch, etc.' anyway.Yes, he has done things for a long time, but he should be fired for THAT, not this minor incident.And let me ask, what the F*ck does Al Sharpton have to do with this anyway? You have an incident between Imus and the Rutgers women, and who comes out of left f*cking field? Al Sharpton ready to give his twosense. The guy has nothing to do with this.Plus what the hell is with the Rutgers women? They didn't come out or do anything until like a week after the fact and suddenly they're crying? I guarantee that they've been called 'hoes' before, likely by black people. Which says what? They're OK with black people calling them hoes, but when a white guy does it, they're suddenly in tears? That right there is racism.Finally, the Rutgers women basketball team should THANK Imus, not demand an apology. I for one didn't know they were even in the championship game until Imus did this. I doubt more than like 40% of America knew anything about the program until this. Women's basketball couldn't make page 3, and then this comes and women's basketball is all over the news for 2 weeks.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Something-To-Say @ Apr 16 2007, 12:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>How would you feel if you were white and black people called you a cracker, or when everytime you started to protest something a black man does, you have Al Sharpton or some other black man jumping on your throat calling(wrongly) you racist? Not to mention black people call white women as well as men 'nigger, bi*ch, etc.' anyway.</div>Umm..cracker is in no way as offensive as the N-word..I haven't been called it much as I am friends with all different people and don't isolate myself from people because of their race...even when I have been called it (usually in a friendly, joking way) I wasn't offended period because it isn't as serious to me...the n-word was used as a derogetory term during the days of slavery when they lynched people, starved them, slaved them and even killed them and it was used throughout the civil rights movement and even through today to offend people.I don't think you know anything about history if you act like being called a cracker is suffering and hurtful and I don't think you've ever suffered or struggled in your lifetime<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Something-To-Say @ Apr 16 2007, 12:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Plus what the hell is with the Rutgers women? They didn't come out or do anything until like a week after the fact and suddenly they're crying? I guarantee that they've been called 'hoes' before, likely by black people. Which says what? They're OK with black people calling them hoes, but when a white guy does it, they're suddenly in tears? That right there is racism.</div>You're a f*cking idiot..that isn't racism and how do you know they've been called hoes by black people?Because you're a f*cking stereotype bi*ch and think all black people are "gangstas" and talk like that You're a prick and you're a racistI hate people like you..you act like you know everything in the world when you haven't struggled for one bit of your life
