What the hell is goin’ on?
Yesterday, CBS fired Don Imus under the premise that CBS President Leslie Moonves wants to stop the human degradation of American society. I guess he means that somehow, he feels by making Imus an example, the rest of America will follow suit and start canning or laying off rappers or hip hop artists for spitting out lyrics out about killing people, raping bitches, and being drug dealers. These people aren’t exactly preaching the wonderful virtues of human society.
In fact, Snoop Dogg claimed that when rappers sing about bitches and hoes, it’s really about the loser women who are to be exploited in the same vein that pimps take advantage of women down on their luck. But, then Stuart Scott, of ESPN fame, notes that Blacks calling women “hoes” is really a term of endearment, or rather, a sign of affection, and that’s just the way it is. And, from the MSNBC website came a report that the slur, “nappy-headed” was really an old, outdated slur, once meant to be especially cruel, that fell out of favor, presumably by offensive whites – until Imus and Sharpton reminded America.
Maybe there really is no double standard at play here in this country. Maybe the thing white people have been doing all wrong is not knowing what the appropriate vernacular with regard to making poorly contextual jokes about Blacks. I mean, if Snoop Dogg claims that calling women “hoes” is only intended for those down on their luck, and Stuart Scott claims it’s really a term of affection, and if the Oxford English Dictionary says “nappy-headed” is such an old term that nobody uses it anymore, then exactly what’s wrong with what Imus said?
Nappy-headed hos.
Oh, wait. He’s white, and that’s the most important aspect of the furor surrounding Imus’ infamous words. It isn’t that what he said was racially motivated; it isn’t that Imus is a racist: it’s simply that Imus should’ve known that the Black right was itching for a public lynching of a prominent white male.
And, the proof is in the pudding in how Snoop Dogg and Stuart Scott contradict one another, and these are two highly visible Blacks. If they can’t agree what the word, “hoe” means, then how in the hell can Don Imus be expected to know every proper contextual use of slurs? Again, it must be because he’s not Black.
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— go to most recent comments1 - James
Al Shapton, is in for a major law suit
2 - jay
Hey, wasn't Sharpton one of the loudest voices calling for immediate action against those Duke lacrosse team rapists because a black woman was raped by white men? Oh, wait, now it turns out that those guys never did rape that woman, and now the district attourney who wrongly followed those clamoring voices is going to be charged because he brought charges against the Duke "rapists" too quickly. I don't hear Sharpton calling for forgiveness in his role for making those white guys national "celebrities." Oh, wait, Sharpton's allowed to voice his beliefs - no matter how wrong or even "hateful" - because he is protected by his freedom of speech, and because he has been condemned to some sort of living hell because he has been racially oppressed and held in slavery all this time. Oh, wait, slavery was abolished a long time ago. Well, it might be nice for someone like Colin Powell or Ms. Rice to have a civilized chat with the good Reverend so that he has the chance to break out of his delusional chains. The TRUTH shall set you free, good reverend! The TRUTH shall set you free!!
3 - Douglas Mays
Great article providing reality perspective. Let me add a few points on the subject.
Regarding slavery in the USA. The white folks did not go to Africa and kidnap tribes people. They were marketed and SOLD OFF by tribal leaders! That is a fact. A black American going to Africa now days is not so much appreciated (compared to white). The old timers just think "we sold you off years ago".
OK? With slavery a huge problem is created in the name of a country of the free. After all, alot of whiteys came here as indentured servents. I guess we are a nation of slaves. Slaves built the world. Let us start with the Pyramids.
the psychological problem created is by being controlled and beaten down, one developes a lack of vision. Sure, in America you can be anything you want. The problem is not having a vision of what there is to be. Dream? They become just ugly memories.
Ask any crack whore that grew up neglected and abused (regardless of family social status), turns to the street to find her way. A continued life of oppression (pimps,dealers, self appointed gaurdians, police jerking one around, etc.) The vision and possibility and how to go about it, of being better, does not exist. This psychology is what is being dealt with in the issue of the oppressed. A weird form of Stockholm Syndrome in a way.
In current society we see athletics and entertainment as a 'way out' for black cultures in the US. Well, it has changed long ago as people of all colors and economic upbringing are breaking thru and being a part of mainstream society. What the heck? Your doctor, lawyer, tax consultant, flower shop owner can be of any race now days. As long as you are good and not an asshole, you are in! A positive functional part of mainstream society. If you are a self absorbed selfish asshole, get out! Society will treat you as you are.
Glad you brought up the fact that 'nappy headed ho' in certain cultures of the USA is a term of endearment. That is actually what I thought Imus was up to. An old guy trying to be hip.
By the way, last night on Comedy Central, I watched the uncensored roast of Pamela Anderson. MY GOD! It was rude! What is anyone complaining about with this Imus deal????
OK, I need some coffee. I am rambling with barely organized thoughts. This Imus issue is a part of the process of equality for everyone. It takes a long time. It has only been 150 years in the USA
The problem with the issue today is if it keeps going as is, we have a society of no identity for anyone. We better figure it out. Racism is not, by definition, existing where the bedwetters of society think it does.
Sharpton, CBS, advertisers, etc. are a bunch of bedwetters. Bedwetter, I am not using the term as defined by humans that do have a blatter control problem (sorry to people with the problem, you understand I hope). I am using it in terms of people who viciously glom onto the lesser significant points as the major fact of an issue. I guess in the future we have to define our terms. If Imus defined his statement as a 'I'm trying to be hip term of endearment', there should be no issue.
Imus is not the problem. Corporate America bedwetting is.
I could be black, I could be white. Look at my name, Mays. I was born in the South End of Chicago. What race am I?
peace and love and equality (by getting rid of immature hang ups),
DM
4 - Douglas Mays
Oh, also regarding your point of the Duke lacrosse team. Media, politics. They are the racists. Why was anyone's race even brought up? How about lacrosse players and a stripper.
Leave the color out of the issue. That is how you create equality.
5 - R U Serious?
The problem, sir, is that white folks (some not all) have a huge problem with being told what to do, especially by a Black person. One of the biggest reasons why Snoop is so successful and influential is because there are so many white kids buying it. Up until about 40 years ago white people could still call Black people "nig...s" and turn them down for housing because "we don't like your kind". NOW, White people can't say what you still feel in your heart because of political correctness and the fact that most of society will not stand by and let this continue. What a handful of Blacks say their opinion of what a "hoe" is makes it true for all, lets turn the tables shall we?
1. White people/ teenagers are very disrespectful to their parents calling them all sorts of names especially their mothers, so that means that white people hate their parents.
2. A white dude was behind the Oklahoma City Bombing so therefore white people like to blow up buildings.
3. Talk about promoting violence, don't get me started on Columbine... or the video games that go flying off the shelves and into the hands of white kids thanks to Mommy and Daddy.
3. Oh and if hip-hop, rap and which words we decide to use is so dumb and ignorant why do White people listen to it or what to use the words anyway? Are they not “above that”?
White people emulate just about every aspect of Black culture that they put down For example:
1. Rap music (go to a rich white neighborhood or any neighborhood and as you drive down the street see who's blastin what)
2. Big SUVs with huge dubs(rims). (Even old white ladies are pimpin out their cars and trucks with 24s)
3. Baggy clothes / Sagging
4. Big Butts ( what used to be a curse is now a huge asset. White girls are trying they hardest to make their backsides look as big as possible while still trying to maintain a size double zero)
5. Tanning (Nuff said)
6. Ebonics ( People turn it off and on as they please, even teachers use it to try to relate to students some times, jokingly of course)
White people need to get off their high horses. If you don't like the way that Blackness is sweeping across America go back to your country! (England, Scotland or where ever it is you people came from)
I still can't get over the fact that the author of this article says that "rappers or hip hop artists for spitting out lyrics out about killing people, raping bitches, and being drug dealers. These people aren’t exactly preaching the wonderful virtues of human society". Let me tell you something White people’s virtues of human society.
They steal a whole country from the natives to call their own.
They kill off a whole race of people because of their manifest destiny then call the natives the savages.
They steal a whole group of people to build their country, raise their kids, work the fields and then call Black people lazy.
If you want to rid America of all the stink and bottom feeders start at your own house, look in your own mirror.
6 - MBD
“If you want to rid America of all the stink and bottom feeders start at your own house, look in your own mirror.“
It’s pathetic how victimhood has become so fashionable. The last time I looked in the mirror, anyone could become rich, anyone can get a college degree, anyone can become an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, or learn a trade. Anyone can become whatever they want to be. Unfortunately, that includes becoming a pimp or other low-life.
It’s our individual choice. If someone feels disadvantaged, it’s only in their mind. Of course, to set and accomplish a positive objective takes dedication and hard work. If anyone is looking for Utopia, they won’t find it on this planet.
Crying about what happened to your ancestors is easy but a complete waste of time. It’s like peeing in your pants, it only makes you feel nice and warm for a moment. Then you can either wallow in the afterglow for a moment or go change your pants and do something constructive.
Unfortunately, some only want to keep on peeing in their pants.
7 - Zedd
MBD
How about starting by not crying about what happened to IMUS.
What is the big deal. One White guy looses his job for being racist AT WORK and you guys through tantrum and blame rappers and Al Sharpton.
Aren't you embarrased?
Especailly based on your shameful history.
You still haven't stopped. What is wrong with you.
Get used to it. No one will tolerate White men doing such things ever again. Adjust.
Why would you want to live in such a world anyway?
Check yourself. Are you alright?
8 - Clavos
No one will tolerate White men doing such things ever again
Don't bet on it. He'll be back at work elsewhere soon.
He was making millions for the networks, and it's all about the money.
You heard it here first.
9 - Douglas Mays
WOW! I see the problem. Comments stating "all whites are..." etc. WTF!!!!! Shit, Manson and Hilter are white. I must be like them.
GEEZ. Pick a finger, mutha. Right now. You wanna learn where a blanket statement out of the mouth of a moron will get you?
10 - Douglas Mays
Zedd, "especially based on your shameful history" Hey, it was black tribal leaders that marketed and sold their own to the slave market. The African pimp slave traders. That is reality.
What were you saying about shameful history?
11 - troll
Douglas - does the fact that Africans sold each other into slavery excuse the 'shameful history' of whites in the US owning slaves - or of jim crow - ?
12 - wow
I'm shocked. Really. This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.
This isn't hard.
Racism is either wrong, or it isn't. If you decide that it's wrong, then it's wrong ALL OF THE TIME. There is no, "Racism is wrong, and therefore I hate all (insert ethnic group here)".
If ANY of you really care AT ALL about the future of this country and the people in it, you had better start thinking this out. If your only interest is to spew venom at other people in the interest of feeling self-righteous while accomplishing NOTHING, then by all means, continue to out yourselves as hypocrites on some stupid blog site.
13 - Paotie
Wow ..
Gee. Here's what Sharpton brought upon America:
Social wars based on sensibilities. Any day now, Sharpton will demand America boycott Tonka Toys because Tonka hired a white man and a black man was denied a job.
Then, at the toy stores across America, any man buying a Tonka for his kid will suddenly be branded a racist for purchasing a product that Sharpton & Co. think is racist. His kid will be rudely introduced to more racism. And so, the cycle would continue.
Forgot hostile corporate takeovers.
Start thinking anarchy. Thank Sharpton for that.
:o)
Paotie
14 - RD.Watson
Not since Dr. Martin Luther King, have we blacks and white Americans for that matter too, had a black leader of substance who took the issues that really affect all of us in our country of many colors and races. Education for all, health care, decent housing, JOBS, homelessness, teen pregnancies, HIV/AIDS, I need not go on. The likes of Rev. Al and Rev. Jessie sat back during the 80's and the 1990's and now we have the issued of HIV/AIDS decimating our black and brown youth and where is the outrage over that genocide allowed to happen by our self proclaimed leaders. Only the last few years have these men and thank God for our black women who stood up and have taken on the HIV/AIDS issue. 2007 does not warrant that old cannard being brought up about what white folks have done to us that we well know already in the past beyond how we hold onto to that hateful and vile history of slavery and Jim Crow mentality. What have we done to each other and allow to continue to do to one another in this century is sad and self written whether some of us care to admit that as fact or not? We Have To Take Care Of Ourselves and Our Own. I'm from a generation that embraced our own and stood lock step in unity back in the day when racism and lyncing was a daily issue and we had few rights that were enacted into law then. Oh, how we have regressed. Stop the excuses, education is the key to real freedom for everyone in America not the faux gangsters that have hijacked our culture in the past 20 years, even over the messages that the original rap artists put out about positive roll models in our communities that were told in the rap idiom of their ghetto truth. Does anyone remember how the hard core bro's took over rap. The late Tupac had a positive slant to his life of many non-positives, he is gone and so is his artistry and vision. Let us not forget that poor black folks are not just found in the city ghettos. Poor blacks and whites are everywhere in our country. Sadly.
As for Snoop Dogg, he is a married man with children and I certainly hope that his wife is not allowing him to address her as his ho' even behind their closed door? He can stake claim to a life he no longer lives or has to live other than in his CD's that he lives the life of the ghetto gangster. He and the other rappers of his ilk live in multi million dollar homes and a wealthy lifestyle. Gangster life? I think not! Snoop Dogg's teaching football to black youth is fine and grand but what about teaching the joyous freedom of an education beyond the 8th grade to those young black boys along with running with a piece of leather to toss around? Doesn't multiple drug and weapons arrests trump what good he is working to accomplish? Dual message?
Those of us who won't take advantage of what we can do and accomplish in 2007 beyond other than athletics and rap have ourselves to blame and we know what we are up against in the white male dominated/owned corporate world at large. We have to still deal and find a way to correct this. Shame on those of you/us for holding on to a past that you've never lived or experienced yourself if truth be told about repression of 40 or 200 years ago? Memory is selective and valuable, but civil action and hard work is what is necessary to get over as black and brown people of color. This is not 1947 or 1957 when we were truly repressed, beat down, tarred and feathered and sadly routinely lynched. History folks is not just to be looked at from the prison, yes prison, of 200 years ago alone.
We can and Must do better as a people to address where we are to go now and in the future? Firing every hateful comment made by public figures is not going to fly in the long run as to our making any real change until we address what and who we allow to say and and proclaim that they lead and speak for us along with the rappers hate speech as we silently sit by and not put our voices and minds to the task of cleaning out our own neighborhoods, block by block, community by community, child by impressionalbe child. We can shout, protest and get people fired and pray all we want but at the end of the day we still have to row our own butts to shore. Rev. Al is 52, is it not time to encourage a younger black vision of substance to take to the fore and address what has occurred since the assinaton of Dr. Martin Luther King? I'm sorry Rev. Sharpton and Rev. Jackson but it is high time that you men re-boot and take a good look at stepping outside of the all too comfortable political box that has been held onto for too long and now find yourselves painted into a corner of your own doing. Reading this will to some appear as a being a 'hater' but that is far from where I sit and many of my generation who have witnessed our societal re-emergence of the sleeping cancer of self denial some of us see swirling around us. Let us go forward and upwards.
15 - Zedd
RD Watson
Education for all, health care, decent housing, JOBS, homelessness, teen pregnancies, HIV/AIDS, I need not go on.
That is exactly what both Jackson and Sharpton do and MORE..... For ALL RACES. Do you think they just sit around until YOU see them on TV? You could have at least googled and found out what they do.
Again. Ask questions or study. Its invigorating.
Go to Jackson's link. It may help.
16 - Zedd
BTW you are a phony
17 - Dave Nalle
Zedd, you've been reading too many press releases and too little actual news if you think those things are what Sharpton and Jackson are all about.
Dave
18 - Dan
I like the way RD Watson is in the present. It's always encouraging to see folks that believe in self-actualization.
It's easy to pretend victimhood, Especially when lot's of people are willing to listen to it.
Although white guys are the true victims of discrimination today, no one is listening. That's a good thing though, you can't keep us down.
19 - Zedd
Dave
Zedd, you've been reading too many press releases and too little actual news if you think those things are what Sharpton and Jackson are all about.
I am very serious. They do far more than the poster suggested. Don't forget, I am Black and I enjoy politics. I KNOW what Jessie Jackson is involved in. Its not even a matter to debate. Whites who are active in the Democratic party will tell you the same thing. You've heard of Rainbow Push haven't you? Its been in place for several decades. It is a well known organization. The rainbow represents all colors. Among the issues named above, he is very involved in Union organizing as well. He is passionate about the rap issue. Again, I've seen him on a number of occasions actually weeping regarding this issue.
You only see a small glimpse which is off course requested by journalists of him. His life's work is very vast. I personally don't feel comfortable with his style (and lisp). He is a bit hyper and comes off as impulsive. People like that make me uncomfortable. I suppose if he were growing up today, he'd probably be tagged as ADD. But I am very humbled by his accomplishments.
Its nice to know that Black people are multi-dementional isn't it. Its unfortunate that our being fully engaged in all varieties of the human experience is not sexy or news worthy. Perhaps its because that should be assumed.
20 - Dave Nalle
they do far more, and far worse. Rainbow/Push is basically an extortion racket designed to line Jackson's pockets. I actually have a bit more respect for Sharpton, but he's also mostly in it for the money and the notoriety.
If they actually wanted to help the African American community they wouldn't be promoting unions which exclude young blacks from jobs or bullying companies into hiring more blacks on the basis of quotas, or hyping these ridiculous non-issues. They'd be supporting the thousands of AA parents who are crying out for school choice and starting job training programs and apprenticeship programs for teens and working to legalize drugs to take the money out of the single biggest force victimizing black youth. How are they doing on these issues?
Dave
21 - The Haze
Zedd - gonna ride this off into the sunset,aren't you? We know your black. so what. we know your smart. who cares. we also know your blind to what is right and wrong,plain and simple. sorry.......oops, didn't I say that loud enough? SORRY!!! it's never enough for Zedd,Al and Jesse. all that matters is the team accepted the apology and that's what should be talked about now. shame on everyone for ridin' this "ho" into the ground for that is why the taste of hate lingers in the mouth of America. I have seen the enemy and it is.......
22 - Cobra
It's over, Paotie. Give it up. You're a "mark" in pro wrasslin' terminology.
You are truly buying what the media establishment is selling you. You've convinced yourself that Reverend Al Sharpton, who does NOT have ANY control of FOX, MSNBC, CBS, CNN or any other news organization somehow MAGICALLY appears on their airwaves through his force of will. That the producers of these networks have "no choice" but to interview Sharpton, because apparently, he is the ONLY person to have spoken out about this issue.
Paotie, maybe I should clue you in on some things:
"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the highest-ranking black woman in government history, said the racist, sexist comments that got radio shock jock Don Imus fired were "disgusting." ...Rice declined to offer an opinion on Imus's firing but said she was "very glad that there was, in fact, a consequence" for the remarks."
CNN
Bruce Gordon, former head of the NAACP and a director of CBS Corp., said Wednesday the broadcasting company needs a "zero tolerance policy" on racism and hopes talk-show host Don Imus is fired for his demeaning remarks about the mostly black Rutgers women's basketball team.
"He's crossed the line, he's violated our community," Gordon said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "He needs to face the consequence of that violation."
ESPN link "Has he lost his mind?" asked NABJ(National Association of Black Journalists) President Bryan Monroe, vice president and editorial director for Ebony and Jet magazines in Chicago. "Those comments were beyond offensive. Imus needs to be fired. Today."
NABJ link "Representative CHARLES RANGEL: I think it's playing out properly and I hope that it sends a signal to other sponsors as well as TV and radio stations that they should not want to be associated with people that lack the sensitivity to be insulting to any group of people. And he's been doing this for a number of years and I think that this reaction goes far beyond him, but should set a tone for the FCC as well."
--WNBC NEWS FORUM
"In an interview with ABC News Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of talk radio host Don Imus. Obama said he would never again appear on Imus' show, which is broadcast on CBS Radio and MSNBC television.
"He didn't just cross the line," Obama said. "He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America. The notions that as young African-American women -- who I hope will be athletes -- that that somehow makes them less beautiful or less important. It was a degrading comment. It's one that I'm not interested in supporting."
Though every major presidential candidate has decried the racist remarks, Obama is the first one to say Imus should lose his job for them." - ABC News
Paotie, I didn't even MENTION the black and female staffers at MSNBC and NBC News who voiced THEIR opinions behind closed doors (Al Roker did it PUBLICALLY on his blog).
I didn't even MENTION the black and female executives in the various corporate sponsors that helped persuade their companies to pull their support for Imus.
This is 2007, Paotie. There are TOO MANY women and minorities in powerful positions in this country for you and those who think like you to successfully make "Al Sharpton's the boogeyman" arguments anymore.
RD writes: "Rev. Al is 52, is it not time to encourage a younger black vision of substance to take to the fore and address what has occurred since the assinaton of Dr. Martin Luther King? I'm sorry Rev. Sharpton and Rev. Jackson but it is high time that you men re-boot and take a good look at stepping outside of the all too comfortable political box that has been held onto for too long and now find yourselves painted into a corner of your own doing. Reading this will to some appear as a being a 'hater' but that is far from where I sit and many of my generation who have witnessed our societal re-emergence of the sleeping cancer of self denial some of us see swirling around us. Let us go forward and upwards."
RD, who are you addressing this request to? The African-Americans currently in the Bush Administration? The African-Americans in Congress? Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas? Deval L. Patrick, Governor of Mass? Any host of black authors, scholars, theologians, executives and scientists?
I don't know about you, but I see more prominant black leaders TODAY than I've ever read about in American history. Don't let the corporate media define for YOU who you should consider a "black leader."
Dave Nalle: Hey buddy... who are the white politicians calling for drug legalization? I want a direct quote from a MAINSTREAM candidate for high office who is on the record for legalizing coccaine, crystal methamphetamine, heroin, etc.
If you can't come up with one, why would you think of bashing Sharpton and Jackson?
--Cobra
23 - Paotie
Cobra -
You just want your cake and to eat it. That's the essence of the Black experience in this country. The reason Black employees of MSNBC were angry is because they made Imus a racist. He isn't a racist. He's a stupid, blathering idiot, but he's not a racist.
Don't worry, there's an old saying: be careful for what you wish for.
Oh, and by the way, buddy .. former New Mexico Governor, Gary Johnson - a white man (and GOP) - was the one of the FIRST major politicans to propose drug legalization.
:o)
Paotie
24 - Douglas Mays
GEEZ, here is the REAL deal. Sharpton, the media, corporate means, etc. in their stance on the issue ARE HUMILIATING EVERY DECENT BLACK (and white) PERSON in this country.
Any person (black or white or red, etc., don't mention color!!!) who has developed their individuality and always moving forward in the world (rich or poor, but proud and productive) to have some jackass like Sharpton saying how ALL black people feel is way out of line.
Sharpton and the likes of are really setting racism back so so so far. I mean, geez, say one (who happens to be black) is heading to the office (which has mostly white, some black, a few Hispanic and Asian workers-as is the real percentage of population base) Monday morning and having to deal with this stuff. Whitey being hypersensitive to the black workers because Sharpton (and others) are saying how they are supposed to be feeling. Any normal upstanding black person at the workplace would actually be shaking their heads at the stupidity of this whole issue.
THAT IS TRUE RACIAL EQUALITY. And guess what. It exists pretty much everywhere. Well, the South still has some problems. Back in 1985 I was at a disco in New Orleans. I ask a black gal to dance with me for a song. She was apprehensive at first, but everything was cool. Then a fellow came up to me and said "you must not be from around here. We don't do that around here". Geez, I was stunned....
Then, it was funny, I was managing the Burning Spear reggae band (oh, how racist! A white guy managing a crew of black musicians...). We had a day off in Richmond VA and we were all watching a basketball game on the TV. One team was getting beat. The team getting beat had a few white folk on the court. I comment about the losing team "geez, it is too white out there". Everyone laughs. Our roadie said "That is what I was thinking, but didn't say anything because you are white". I smiled and said not to worry about that.
About reggae and other African/Jamaican music support. That style of music is about 80% supported by white folks in this country (except for Brooklyn and Houston). Why? It is too black for the blacks.
And one whole deal in the racism issue, black civil leaders are acting like the whole country is black. It is maybe 12% black. As long as everyone is treated like the human they are, what is the problem?
Anyway, Sharpton and Les Moonie (CBS) are living like it is 1950 or something. Until all idiots involved figure out it is 2007 and society has evolved quite a bit, QUIT BRINGING THE BLACK PERSON DOWN!!!! YOU DON'T TREAT ABLE BODY MINDS LIKE THEY ARE CRIPPLED or incapable.
As long as there is a label on someone, you have racism. The labels to be used are good worker, bad worker. Law abiding, criminal. Etc.
Anyone making an issue of all this are so out of it and setting this country so far behind. People, we must ignore and get rid of these morons. IMUS is not the moron. Guess what, most any black person in the USA got Imus's botched joke. And as many white folk as black folk got a chuckle over a botched joke. It wasn't that funny as far as comedy structure goes, but there are lots of black folk that could have made the very same joke.
Say Imus was black, and the Rutgers team was mostly white. Black Imus says "those greasy headed sluts played a hell of a game..." Any issue? No... Just a harmless talk show host yapping away...
25 - Douglas Mays
OK, here is the reality of race issues for MOST of the USA.
If you are cool, peaceful and productive (take the race label out of it), you are accepted. If you are not accepted, take a look at yourself. You are not allowed to use race as the acceptance thing.
In reality, the race issue only applies to a tiny percentage of USA society.
I mean, even in England, it isn't so bad to be a 'Paki' as it was 40 years ago. The world has evolved. Why don't you?
OK, when I say 'you', I am only speaking to a tiny percentage of people. But the percentage happens to be big wigs in government and corporate and social movement arenas.....
This country needs to clean house. Bush, Sharpton, etc. The issue of racism would sure change. Time to update....