MSNBC drops simulcast of Don Imus show
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Don Imus is a racist pig and the public has a right to get him kicked off the airwaves.
It is too bad that it took other racists pigs to organize and pressure the broadcast stations to drop his show.
When I say other racist pigs I say people like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton who during the civil rights movement supported the groups like the Black Panthers which was an Afro-American group that was trying to get equality with the white Americans by promoting violence to obtain change.
Don Imus and Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton are not racist pigs.
Don Imus made a comment about the women’s basketball team about nappy-headed hos.
Why would he say a comment like this since he knows that a large percentage of his listeners are Afro-Americans?
Because that is how the hip Afro-Americans talk.
Watch the TV shows and listen to the Afro-American radio announcers and even the Rap artists nappy-headed ho a common phrase.
And Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton came to stir the pot mislead the masses to further their political agendas and destroy a radio icon because they got offended that he was talking their lingo.
Jessie and Al took on Don because he dressed and acted like a cowboy.
They say that a lot of advertisers dropped their ads and it’s so ironic that that these same advertisers supports the Rap artists that use racial slurs that are a lot worse than Don ever did.
It’s time for people to speak up for Don Imus and get him back on the air and if people don’t do it they will soon find themselves being censored by a small group of people who feel that freedom of speech only applies to them.
No you are not ignorant. I think the point people are trying to make is the Double Standard that exists when it comes to free speech.
I'm hoping people don't always have to use the lowest common denominator to justify their rudeness. I never got away with that when I was little ("But mom, that's not fair! He did it and didn't get in trouble!". Answer from my mom: "We're not talking about your brother" or my personal fave: "Life isn't always fair, get used to it".)
OK, but if you get racial with a black woman down here, don't act like you didn't know some trouble would be coming. You can't say you didn't know anymore:lol: . I've found being from Canada will get you a fair bit of leeway down here because people will assume you just didn't know some things would be offensive, but even that has limits.
That's not necessarily true. Bill Maher was pretty famously dumped by ABC a few years ago, during that extra sensitive period in American history. He has a WAY better show with much more freedom in what he can say and his stand up career is doing great. The Dixie Chicks were boycotted, banned and reviled. They're doing pretty good too. I didn't see a lot of right wingers defending their right to free speech, but there ya go. Imus just lost his job, he didn't lose his career. There is no reason he won't be able to find another job if he has talent.
Rap has mainstreamed gutter language and habits and it is a little amusing to see the black community take such umbrage at Imus's remarks. But at least this initial salvo from the black community will awaken an even more thunderous roar from mainstream hacks who love a good fight. Rap, its artists and corporate sponsors, are in for some very difficult days. And rap's huge and clueless white audience had better be prepared for some prolonged nasty questioning.
Is it a double standard if they don't like rap either? I can't imagine MSNBC plays a lot of racist, mysogynistic rap music on their stations, so it doesn't seem like they are being hypocrites if they don't want Don Imus to use such language.
I suppose he should have referred to all Catholic Priests as Boy-f%&*ing homo's.
That seems pretty tame.
Afro-Americans? That in an of itself is racist. Afro...
Where have you been Liberalman? That term that used to be used to describe people of color is now considered racist.
The new PC term is African-Americans. Any other term used by a white man is considered racist by the PC Police.
So, can we call each other "Nappy-headed hos" on CanCon?
Just like the badass rappers in the 'hood?
Just like the badass rappers in the 'hood?
LOL Tamarin.
The older civil rights leaders can't believe what their own people are calling each other if even
under the guise of a jest or of being "cool."
Even Reverend Al Sharpton quoted JAMES BROWN as asking, "How did we go
from BLACK PRIDE to calling each other _itches and hoes, and _iggers ???"
One black guy simply calls the "rap" attitude "prison culture" where one must be aggressive to survive.
If the Imus incident takes us to a serious look at the double standards then all this is to the good.
To the good for everybody.
The older civil rights leaders can't believe what their own people are calling each other if even
under the guise of a jest or of being "cool."
Even Reverend Al Sharpton quoted JAMES BROWN as asking, "How did we go
from BLACK PRIDE to calling each other _itches and hoes, and _iggers ???"
One black guy simply calls the "rap" attitude "prison culture" where one must be aggressive to survive.
If the Imus incident takes us to a serious look at the double standards then all this is to the good.
To the good for everybody.
An African American journalist from the Kansas City Star was on a number of news programs last evening and this morning...I happened to catch him in a repeat this morning and I was impressed by his words... Here is his column which is probably a good copy of what he said on television...
http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html
Friday, Apr 13, 2007
Jason Whitlock
Posted on Wed, Apr. 11, 2007
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 $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.
I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.
But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.
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.
http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html
Friday, Apr 13, 2007
Jason Whitlock
Posted on Wed, Apr. 11, 2007
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 $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.
I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.
But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.
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.
Great column, Curiosity.
Even Rev Jesse Jackson spoke of black on black crime.
The black leaders are pointing out that they are speaking out on this double standard
and complain the media is not emphasizing it enough so that an incident like this Imus incident
makes them seem hypocritical.
I'm not so sure, but that is their argument.
Even Rev Jesse Jackson spoke of black on black crime.
The black leaders are pointing out that they are speaking out on this double standard
and complain the media is not emphasizing it enough so that an incident like this Imus incident
makes them seem hypocritical.
I'm not so sure, but that is their argument.
The Jackson/Sharpton contingent came out of the first Civil Rights movements and they are still operating under the incorrect assumption the blacks have just emerged from slavery and oppression. That was forty years ago fellas.
It is time they update themselves and check out some of the terrific African Americans who are living exemplary lives, educating themselves and their children, contributing to their community to both the black and white and other racial populations and have integrated their hearts and minds into belonging without prejudice on either side.
Sharpton and Jackson have long made their professional standing by praising victimhood and speaking for the 'black people'.... what they believe and lecture to the people is no longer applicable.
If they continue in this outmoded vanity/victim campaign, they will be laughed outta the auditorium one day....unless they catch up with the current educated people of color who are even intermarrying and guess what..... running for President!
It is time they update themselves and check out some of the terrific African Americans who are living exemplary lives, educating themselves and their children, contributing to their community to both the black and white and other racial populations and have integrated their hearts and minds into belonging without prejudice on either side.
Sharpton and Jackson have long made their professional standing by praising victimhood and speaking for the 'black people'.... what they believe and lecture to the people is no longer applicable.
If they continue in this outmoded vanity/victim campaign, they will be laughed outta the auditorium one day....unless they catch up with the current educated people of color who are even intermarrying and guess what..... running for President!