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Bye Bye Don

#42
Joe Nerve said:
Sharpton is starting to really boil my blood. He is the biggest racist I've ever seen, and he only fuels hatred. These guys preach love (or whatever the hell they preach) and practice hate. Imus said something really stupid and innapropriate. Sharpton gets on his rabble rousing podium, all hell breaks lose, the guy loses his jobs, the radio and TV station take a huge hit. All because Sharpton wants to HELP the african american community.

Why isn't he all over gangsta rap then, why isn't he all over the hip-hop magazines with craploads of gun advertisements that I see kids in my highschool reading, why isn't he going after any of the black DJs that pound out tons of racist black and white hating sexist masogonistic abusive evil crap. Nope, go after IMUS's one dumbass goof that he even apologized for. IMUS is what causes all the problems. Give ma a break. I'm surprised so many people are with these guys on their decisions.
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#48
Vandelay said:
Our local sports columnist Jason Whitlock (who happens to be African-American) made the same point about Sharpton and Jackson, and how the gangsta culture is the real enemy. It's a great read:

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Pretty good article, though I disagree about his characterization of Dave Chappelle, who I don't really think is honestly perpetuating racism, as Whitlock seems to suggest.

I'm also not too knowledgeable regarding rap music in general, so I'm sure that there are some who would find his comments about that area to be too broad and reductive.

More prominent people need to start sticking it to clowns like Sharpton and Jackson, though. Big ups to Whitlock for that.
 
#52
I winced when I hard what Imus said. My wife is black and she winces whenever Sharpton or Jackson show up on TV -
Imus can say whatever he wants, if he is standing in a street corner and chooses to be an a**. But I don't think he should get paid and use airtime to say that crap- and I was not aware of all the other junk he has said because I never cared enough about him to follow his remarks.
Racism sucks big time no matter what direction it's going in. As a hispanic, i have received and heard my share. The ignorance is amusing to me, but it's hurtful, it has to go.
 
#53
I agree with you Adrian. It's interesting that we have a thread three pages long focussing on Imus and we have ignored the girls basketball team. I haven't paid attention to all threads in Off Topic, but did we devote three pages to how this may have affected a team of girls that were verbally attacked?

Is it more important to protect the name caller than the recipients of the name calling? Who's the victim here?
 
#54
bmc said:
...did we devote three pages to how this may have affected a team of girls that were verbally attacked?

Is it more important to protect the name caller than the recipients of the name calling? Who's the victim here?
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There is an old saying: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."

Some folks seem to have forgotten that. The fact is Imus' audience has been declining for years. In fact, if I recall correctly, he said it nearly a week before the story "broke".

Based on the other Imus quotes posted here, I'd say it was a few things:

1) Slow news week.

2) AttentionWhores Jackson & Sharpton were looking to make a stink about something to get their moronic faces back on the small screen

3) Words are now considered dangerous weapons and some folks seem to lack the ability to laugh off blatant idiocy.

Imus suspended? Possibly.
Imus fired? Hardly. As has been posted before, there's much worse out there and no one even flinches.

This is political correctness run amok, and it's not likely to get any better, friends. The Though Police are here and they are vicious hypocrites.
 
#55
OctoberMooN said:
There is an old saying: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."

Some folks seem to have forgotten that. The fact is Imus' audience has been declining for years. In fact, if I recall correctly, he said it nearly a week before the story "broke".

Based on the other Imus quotes posted here, I'd say it was a few things:

1) Slow news week.

2) AttentionWhores Jackson & Sharpton were looking to make a stink about something to get their moronic faces back on the small screen

3) Words are now considered dangerous weapons and some folks seem to lack the ability to laugh off blatant idiocy.

Imus suspended? Possibly.
Imus fired? Hardly. As has been posted before, there's much worse out there and no one even flinches.

This is political correctness run amok, and it's not likely to get any better, friends. The Though Police are here and they are vicious hypocrites.
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Hard to argue any of your points.

I was checking other forums I participate in and the Sharpton/Jackson/HipHop point is being raised repeatedly. I wonder where this story is going to take us. I hope it remains a slow news week so that it can stay alive.

If we're taking down bad taste, take it all down.
 
#57
DaBassman said:
He's a good man that said a very bad thing. Suspension, a fine, then let him make things better....that would have been the right thing to do, not fire him.........Jesse J and Al S both said/did stupid things in the past...both apologized and were allowed to go on....Imus should have had the same chance.
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No, Imus is a jerk. Almost everyone who works with him hates him, and really, it was after the incident with the completely insincere "some of my best friends are black" apology and the "I can't win with you people" comment, along with talking to his co-workers that really got him fired. Tons of people have Imus stories about what a jerk he is, and he's been busted many times in the past for saying racist things to people. So I totally disagree that he is a good man. He's a bad man who only started doing good things as a way to repair his image as a horse's ass and what he's going through now is what's known as the Karma Boomerang Bitchslap.

BTW, I also agree about Sharpton and Jackson. Stern, this week, was calling both of them "pieces of s---" and "racists," and saying how stupid it was for Imus to go on Sharpton's show and expect anything but bad. And I agree. But Imus is a senile stupid jerk who thinks he's a brilliant public speaker, so he went on Sharpton's show and got what he deserved. Had he quietly apologized, he'd still be employed. But he did the apology tour and kept running his mouth and made himself look like even more of a racist in the process.

BTW, who builds a ranch for kids with cancer 120 miles away from a hospital?
 
#60
IotaNet said:
I case nobody knows, the word "Ho" means "Whore."

"Nappy headed whores"
"Stringy Headed whores"
"Bald headed whores"

No matter how you preface it, calling those young women Whores was way out of line.
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+1 on that, but let's not ignore the racial element of what he said. Having checked out the Rutgers University Women's basketball team website, it's painfully apparent that none of the women have a frizzy hairstyle. Referring to them as "Nappy headed" can only have been a racist comment.

Diggler said:
With regards to your ridiculous attempt to form a straw man, I support white nationalists to have their stupid views and voice their opinions without them being persecuted for them. Just like Sharpton and Jackson can voice theirs. Once they infringe on someone's rights or hurt someone or break a law though, all bets are off.
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Racism always hurts someone though, which is why it cannot be defended as free speech.
 

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