masterrig 1 #176 April 12, 2007 QuoteQuoteYes we are and we sure can't let anyone down. And now, CBS has fired Imus. Imus is now without a broadcasting venue at all. See my earlier post about how I feel. Ciels- Michele _______________________________ Well, looks like Mr. Jackson and Mr. Sharpton won! Both of them hipocrites. Just as everyone has forgotten their past 'antics' and sins, this incident also, will be forgotten. They got their pound of flesh. Time to move on. Who, are they going to go after next? Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jarrodh 0 #177 April 12, 2007 I found this on facebook. Its by Jason Whitlock 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 $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud. I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack. But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$. 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.2 BITS....4 BITS....6 BITS....A DOLLAR!....ALL FOR THE GATORS....STAND UP AND HOLLER!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RBM 1 #178 April 12, 2007 WOW!! he doesn't play around, he lays it all out.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
masterrig 1 #179 April 12, 2007 Preach on it! Amen! Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Broke 0 #180 April 12, 2007 QuoteImus is an idiot for even addressing Sharpton and the rest. It was a joke, and if they can't take it, to freaking bad. There are lots of things he could have said that are blatantly racist, but "nappy headed ho's" isn't one of them. But shit, throw him off the air. I like O&A and R&F anyway. O&A fully support ImusDivot your source for all things Hillbilly. Anvil Brother 84 SCR 14192 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Broke 0 #181 April 12, 2007 QuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteImus wasn't being a racist, he was being a GUY! And Imus should go back to just being a GUY and not a nationally broadcast radio personality. About as much as you should go back to being a guy and not a professor and prolific political web poster. What do you find acceptable about calling identifiable college girls "hos" on national radio? Do you listen to the black stations? They let worse things fly all the timeDivot your source for all things Hillbilly. Anvil Brother 84 SCR 14192 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Broke 0 #182 April 12, 2007 QuoteQuoteLike it or not, Whitey cannot say things that black folk can. End of discussion. Cracker PLEASE!!!! No you din'tDivot your source for all things Hillbilly. Anvil Brother 84 SCR 14192 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Broke 0 #183 April 12, 2007 So anyone want to help out sick kids who will lose out of a lot of funding because Imus isn't there to do his radiothon to rais money for them. Say Bring Imus back and help some sick children out. After all who are more important a bunch of whiney nappy haired ho's who should be able to take a joke, or children who are sick http://wfan.com/pages/332252.phpDivot your source for all things Hillbilly. Anvil Brother 84 SCR 14192 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dbattman 0 #184 April 13, 2007 Consider it good practice for when these young women graduate and have to go work a job, where all kinds of people will snipe at them for a variety of reasons. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DaVinci 0 #185 April 13, 2007 I this guy said it best http://www.newsday.com/ny-sppow125168074apr12,0,4959558.column?coll=ny-homepage-mezz QuoteI'm not sure if the last few days will serve as a watershed moment for this MTV, middle-finger, screw-you generation. Probably not, according to my hunch. A short time from now, the hysteria will turn to vapor, folks will settle back into their routines, somebody will pump up the volume on the latest poison produced by hip-hop while Al Sharpton and the other racial ambulance chasers will find other guilt-ridden white folks to shake for fame and cash. I wish I were wrong about that last part. But I doubt it, because any minute now, black people will resume calling themselves bitches and hos and the N-word and in the ultimate sign of hypocrisy, neither Rutgers nor anyone else will call a news conference about that. Tell me: Where did an old white guy like Imus learn the word "ho"? Was that always part of his vocabulary? Or did he borrow it from Jay-Z and Dave Chappelle and Snoop Dogg? Black folks, for whatever reason, can be their own worst enemy. The last several days, the media had us believe it was Don Imus. But deep down, we know better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Broke 0 #186 April 13, 2007 Damn you beat me to it. He was very eloquent and gasp he is a black person. I like the part where he said that a black woman's most dangerous opressor are the black men and also when he called Sharpton an ambulance chaserDivot your source for all things Hillbilly. Anvil Brother 84 SCR 14192 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leroydb 0 #187 April 16, 2007 I have now heard the passage of words, "nappy-headed hos." in the last week, than I have ever heard it in my life QuoteSharpton became one of Imus' most vocal critics after the shock jock used a racial slur while referring to the Rutgers women's basketball team. Imus was fired from his radio show after calling the team "nappy-headed hos."Leroy ..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
