Blogcritics Comments on The Don Imus/Rutgers University Blog Round Up: Part Two

Comment by Mike Miller on The Don Imus/Rutgers University Blog Round Up: Part Two

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 20:10:23 EDT

Very Funny Imus parody on You Tube

Comment by Julie L. on The Don Imus/Rutgers University Blog Round Up: Part Two

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:39:45 EDT

Imus is a public figure making racist comments on air. And unlike rappers or comedians, his racism is directed toward a group of young women in particular who did not choose a lifestyle in which they would expect to be called hos. They are not on television for dancing provacatively or being half-naked. They are not on television because they embody the stereotype of loud ghetto girls. These are young ladies in college, whose parents and guardians who pay for their education are proud. And they should be. Not only do they have to maintain a certain GPA to be on the team, but they took the team far this season. And the way they have handled themselves, espcially during this "scandal" has been admirable. They warrant more respect than to be called nappy headed hos. I think that a distinction should be made with people. A man strung out behind the garbage in an alley might expect to be called a junkie or a druggie. The women who show up to the auditions of hip hop videos know what they will be referred to as in the music they dance half naked to. They are the ones who have to answer to those who call them hos. But not the young ladies of the Rutgers Basketball team.

Comment by Matthew Milam on The Don Imus/Rutgers University Blog Round Up: Part Two

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:54:43 EDT

I'm done with this. On to something else.

Comment by Charles Murton on The Don Imus/Rutgers University Blog Round Up: Part Two

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:20:22 EDT

I don't think that your being black is relevant, but it's good to hear that you don't have a low opinion of anyone, even though your saying "...you are no better than the right-wingers who sell him as god" seems to strongly suggest that you have a low opinion of said right-wingers. "Third, if you are a liberal and listening to him in "small doses"... Who do you mean by "him"? I live in Melbourne, Australia. We have our own radio shows and don't have to import American rubbish. I have never listened to Don Imus in my life. Nevertheless, I stick with the point that you think is so important. When I am in Sydney or Brisbane on holiday, in the short time while I am having a shower and getting dressed it is entertaining to turn on the radio to whoever the local lunatic is, arguing with callers and expectorating bile in all directions. This link is worth a read. I would like to summarise my actually important points, so readers here are not bogged down with the notion that I find Don Imus - to whom I have never listened - entertaining. 1) It was cowardly and hypocritical of CBS and the show's sponsors to sack Imus when confronted with power-hungry, race-baiting bullies like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. 2) The dream of Martin Luther King has been trashed and corrupted by people like Sharpton, who inevitably judges people by the colour of their skin rather than the content of their character, by latter-day segregationists like the New Black Panthers, and by the mind-numbing and morally corrupting influence of rap music. A new Martin Luther King is badly needed to give the best kind of moral and intellectual leadership to young blacks. Demanding, no-nonsense teachers, like the teacher that Thomas Sowell had at his school in Harlem in the 1940s, would also be of great help in giving black children the basis for success in life. The education system is letting blacks down abominably, but not in the way that the American teachers' unions think.

Comment by Michael J. West on The Don Imus/Rutgers University Blog Round Up: Part Two

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:13:15 EDT

Which right-wingers sell Imus as a God?

Comment by Matthew Milam on The Don Imus/Rutgers University Blog Round Up: Part Two

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:33:48 EDT

Alright, I've sent in the changes -- let's see what happens.

Comment by Matthew Milam on The Don Imus/Rutgers University Blog Round Up: Part Two

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:28:42 EDT

I don't have a low opinion of anyone. I am black my damn self. I am stating the fact the way Snoop Dogg is marketed, he is targeted for those two groups. How in the hell does that state I hate black people? Secondly, I'll see if the editor will allow the full sentence. Third, if you are a liberal and listening to him in "small doses", you are no better than the right-wingers who sell him as god.

Comment by Charles Murton on The Don Imus/Rutgers University Blog Round Up: Part Two

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:48:37 EDT

With regard to your comment about Diogenes' Lamp I'm afraid you are being rather naughty and quoting me out of context. I wrote: "So this kind of radio may be tasteless, low-brow and offensive, but IN SMALL DOSES it can be very entertaining." The amount of confrontational radio I would listen to would be approximately one hour a year, always while I am in another city where I am not familiar with the radio personalities. I am not a Republican - in fact I am not even an American. I am Australian, and a Liberal Party voter. With regard to your last - totally irrelevant - comment, I'm sorry that you have such a low opinion of blacks. I have been to New York a few times and found the blacks to be a good deal more peaceable and helpful than the whites.