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Imus must stay, we need him

passin thru

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IN the whole scope of the situation, we need to keep Imus. Sure what he said was stupid. However stupid speech is protected(dis).
If the raicals succeed in silencing Imus, who will be their next target, just because they were offended. Boo Hoo, we all get offended at some time or other. In the same vein we need Air America,and all it spews.
For if we lose things like Imus no one is safe. After all there is the left media to bring us the lefts viewpoint in their nigfhtly newscasts. Right talk radio is the only thing left between us and almost complete domination of the media by the left.
So Imus needs to stay.
 

kolanuraven

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I see your point and do agree with you on the issue of Free Speech....BUT....Imus has has this coming for a long time. He's been warned over the years to cool it and he didn't listen.


What if one of your employees talked to you in a manner such as Imus did about those women...would you fire that employee or protect them at your expense?

It's a slippery slope but if he's costing the networks money....he's O-U-T!
 

passin thru

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That is everyones choice, to listen or not. If he doesn't pay the bills they will have to fire him.
I just hate to see it happen, even though I do not listen to him. Heck I listen to the Air America clan more ...............its fun to get a peek in their minds.
I still hate to see Imus go
 

IL Rancher

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writting is on the wall.. Probably 90+% chance that he is gone because all the sponsers are jumping ship.. Not a Balck or white issue but a green issue..
 

aplusmnt

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Wonder why Sharpton can make Racist remarks but others can not?

Crown Heights Riot
The Crown Heights Riot occurred after a car accident involving the motorcade for the Lubavitcher Rebbe killing a young boy Gavin Cato. A riot was sparked after a private Hasidic ambulance came to the scene and, on the orders of a police officer, removed the Hasidic driver from the scene. Gavin Cato and his cousin Angela were picked up soon after by a city ambulance. Caribbean-American and African-American residents of the neighborhood then rioted for four consecutive days fueled by rumors (in part driven by Sharpton), [7], [8], that the private ambulance had refused to treat Cato. [9]

Sharpton became the de-facto representative for the Cato family. During the funeral he referred to "diamond merchants" considered a code word for Hasidic Jews [10] [11], for shedding "the blood of innocent babies" leading marchers shouting "No Justice No Peace". Sharpton did not start the riots but his rhetoric was seen as inflammatory and unhelpful in easing the tension between the black and Jewish communities. A visiting rabbinical student from Australia by the name of Yankel Rosenbaum, 29 years old, was killed during the rioting by a mob shouting "Kill the Jew".


Reckless Blowhard

Sharpton made his name and his fame as the one to lead a protest movement after every racially charged incident in New York over the last 30 years (and many elsewhere in the U.S.) Especially early in his career, he seemed content and even eager to inflame racial hatreds at the risk of violence, as long as it gave him publicity and power.

Several of these protests escalated to the point of violence, in several cases by those who Sharpton championed. Examples include the Crown Heights riot of 1991, and a 1995 arson attack on a Jewish Harlem jeweler that resulted in 8 deaths. That attack came months after Sharpton made remarks about the "white interloper". (He later apologized, saying that he wouldn't use the word white again in that context.)

1995:

When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno
 

T99

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I didn't see the Today Show this morning but I wish I would have. It looks like Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira did a good job.

Imus Firing: Lauer Suggests NBC Caved to Pressure; Vieira Holds Sharpton's Feet to Fire

Give Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira credit. On this morning's "Today," Lauer suggested to his boss's face that in firing Don Imus he had caved to pressure from advertisers and people like Al Sharpton. And Vieira held Al Sharpton's feet to the fire, now that he had Imus' scalp, about going after rappers and others who use similar language every day.

Here's part of the exchange, which came at 7:05 AM EDT, between Lauer and NBC News President Steve Capus:



CAPUS: This one went so far over the line, Matt, that it was time.

LAUER: But the timing, the timing. You really don't have to try too hard to think that NBC News caved to the pressure from advertisers like Proctor & Gamble and GM and others and perhaps caved to pressure from people like Reverend Sharpton, who we'll talk to in just a second.

CAPUS: There was all kinds of voices raised all across the country; a nerve was touched. Advertisers, people on the outside. But the voices that I heard loudest were the people that work for us at NBC News [note: "Today" weatherman Al Roker was one who publicly called for Imus' firing].

LAUER: Here's what you said: "I believe Imus took some smart and courageous actions. The fact that he sat down with the Reverend Al Sharpton and listened -- I wanted that process to continue and while that was happening we were having our own discussions on 'Today' and MSNBC and 'Nightly News' and throughout the country on race relations. What has been going on is a lot of listening and talking." So, if Imus took some courageous actions, was smart about it, if the listening and talking continued, why put a period on it right now if not for pressure from advertisers?

CAPUS: I'll expand the question to say why do you have an integrity policy if you're not going to enforce it? And that's what I heard from the people who work for us over and over again. And it was time to look at the body of work. And he has done some great work but he's also done some things nobody's proud of. And this one went so far over the line.

LAUER: I received a lot of emails, as we all have, over these last several days, and some of the people who emailed me said they think perhaps NBC listened to the loudest voices here [at NBC]. That perhaps the people who supported Don Imus remained quiet, especially after they thought the punishment had been doled out -- the two week suspension.
Sounds like Matt and Al Roker might be at odds over this one. In any case, it was not just Lauer's words, it was his tone and the manner in which he interjected his comments that were striking. This was anything but a fawning employee seeking to ingratiate himself with his boss. Kudos.

Meredith Vieira then took a similarly tough tone with Al Sharpton.

SHARPTON: It has to start with a standard of government-regulated broadcasting.

VIEIRA: Let's talk about accountability, sir. Because when you had Imus on your show on Monday you brought your daughter out at one point, and this really resonated with me because I have a daughter. And you asked him to look at your daughter and you said "this is not a ho. This is my daughter." A lot of people around the country understood what you were saying because so many young ladies and young men, every day on the airwaves are exposed to ugly language: to the n-word, to the b-word, to the word 'ho,' much of it orginated in the black community with rap music, with hip-hop music, as you have acknowledged. What are you going to do now to immediately stop that filth that is coming over the airwaves in the way you've tried to stop Don Imus?
When Sharpton claimed that he and Jesse Jackson's group have been trying to deal with the issue, Vieira interjected: "But it's all over the place. What have you done?"

SHARPTON: The music industry heads, many of whom have nothing to do with the black community but make the profits from this.

What's Sharpton's point? That he wouldn't mind so much if the people profiting from the degradation were themselves black?

VIEIRA: Do you agree there has been a double standard, sir?

SHARPTON: No, there has not been a double standard. These young people do not go on regulated radio as hosts, as Imus.

VIEIRA: They're all over the radio; they're all over television.

SHARPTON: They're over radio as commercial artists that these companies are putting on. They don't work for the radio companies. Imus did.

VIEIRA: But they spread the message. And it permeates through society.






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Mrs.Greg

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I think with this unfortunate firing poeople Like Sharpton,J.Jackson and Oprah are going to have to watch thier P's and Q's because they are going to be watched like hawks for thier next slip-ups.
 

T99

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I have to disagree with you just a little Mrs. G
The BLACK broadcasters, entertainers, and celebrities won't be monitored. Only the whites will. And there will be more that will be punished. I'll bet that Sharpton and Jackson are patting each other on the back, planning on their next victim.
 

Mrs.Greg

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Well if your right that would be very unfortunate for the simple fact racism or any predudice is wrong and the three I mentioned seem to be able to say whatever they want, cry the very loudest and get away with thier racist comments.

When Oprah built her school in Africa she made the very strong point it was for BLACK girls only...when asked why,she said 'Because I can"...guess shes right :?
 

Robert

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borrowed this from another site. Have to say before all this hubub I had never heard of the guy.

he does some good....

The Imus Ranch
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by Beverly Keel
As a light summer sprinkle taps on the roof of the horse arena, 14-year-old Crystal Anderson sits atop Teddy, a brown quarter horse, and nervously leads him to the center of the ring. Clad in dusty jeans, roper boots, a red Western shirt and a helmet designed to look like a cowboy hat, this Pensacola, Fla., teen is about to begin her inaugural attempt at herding a cow on the Imus Ranch near Ribera, N.M.

While three bona fide cowboys keep the other five Corriente steers and heifers in a corner, ranch bosses Don and Deirdre Imus and their son, Wyatt, 7, fill in the gaps behind her. As the lone loose cow tries fervently to rejoin the herd, Anderson successfully cuts it off. "Keep up! Keep up! You’re doing a good job," encourages Don Imus. "Stop! Keep up!"

Anderson quickly learns to maneuver Teddy just where she wants him to go and delivers the day’s finest performance. "That was great for your first time," Don Imus tells her. Her fear now replaced with pride, she smiles and returns to the rear of the arena to join the other two cutting novices learning the ropes of separating a cow from the herd.

It’s hard to believe that just two days ago, Anderson had never been on a horse and was terrified of even trying. "I was thinking, ‘Are me and this horse going to get along to where he won’t buck me off or do anything outrageous?’" Anderson says. "But it went well; nothing went wrong. I felt proud of myself because I finally did something that I always wanted to do and that I always feared. I learned I can do more and that I am more confident than I think I am."

That’s music to the ears of Don and Deirdre Imus, who dedicate their entire summer to hosting eight one-week sessions at the 4,000-acre cattle ranch for children who have had cancer or blood disorders, or have lost a sibling to sudden infant death syndrome. But make no mistake: this is no frolicking summer camp or serene high-desert day spa. The Imus Ranch is an exhausting, sunrise-to-sunset boot camp for cowboys and cowgirls designed to instill the values of hard work and the Western lifestyle. "We’re straight shooters with these kids," says Deirdre, 41. "We lay down the rules the first day here: ‘This isn’t Camp Happy Face.’"

Soon after the 10 wranglers, ages 11 to 17, are outfitted in blue jeans, cowboy boots and hats compliments of Wrangler, Justin and Resistol, they’re given the rules of the cowboy way. There’s no coddling or whining, and they must clean their rooms, make up their beds, do laundry, clear their plates and say, "Yes ma’am." And no hats on the bed—not bad manners, just bad luck. "It’s about hard work," says Brittany Thomas, 12, of Crestview, Fla. "It’s just some place that you can have fun and meet new people and do a bit of work each day."

At least during this week, they are treated like normal, healthy children. In fact, ranch hands aren’t allowed to mention the children’s illnesses. Perhaps for the first time in years, the children are recognized for what’s right with them, instead of what’s wrong with them. It’s their strengths, not their physical weaknesses that set them apart from their peers.

And what cannot be underestimated is the profound bonding experience that occurs when the children gather with nine others who share more than they know. "They talk about surgeries, they talk about hair falling out from the chemo," says Samantha Imus (who is married to Don’s nephew), a child life specialist who works intimately with the children. "They talk about their experience a lot—at least once during the session, if not a few times. Some don’t want any part of it; they want to be done with it. But there are a bunch of kids who do talk to each other, especially when they are swimming, because they see that most of them have scars from the chemotherapy ports."

How it all began

At first glance, Don Imus, 65, seems like an unlikely character to launch such a benevolent endeavor. As host of Imus in the Morning, a syndicated morning radio show that is simulcast on MSNBC, he has become known as the consummate curmudgeon, an irascible rascal who rants about politicians and celebrities and peppers his guests with testy questions.

But he’s also a cattle rancher’s son who was raised on The Willows Ranch between Seligman, Ariz. (pop. 456), and Kingman (pop. 20,069). "In those days, there was no electricity there or indoor plumbing," he says. "There was just a work ethic and sense of hope. Being around horses early in your life, you develop a sense of confidence, just like athletes do."

During his decades on the air, he also developed a heart for children battling cancer after becoming involved with Tomorrows Children’s Fund, a non-profit New Jersey-based organization that raises money for children with cancer and blood disorders. "They came to the radio station and asked us to raise money for them," says Imus, who raised $1 million the first year through a radio-thon in 1988. "That was my first exposure to kids with cancer."

Soon after, he met Deirdre, an actress from Connecticut who had never ridden a horse, and the two married in 1994. They began spending more of their time with sick children. "After working with these kids, we noticed a common theme: They had cancer but they were like normal kids, except they lost their self-esteem," Deirdre says. "We found no one was actually restoring their self-esteem or dignity."

Adds Don, "They weren’t being treated as normal kids. They were being treated as sick kids. They were coddled, and appropriately so, by their parents and doctors."

The Imuses wanted to launch an even bigger project that would return that depleted confidence to the children once they had finished medical treatments. For a while, they just didn’t know what it would be.

But in 1998, while a pregnant Deirdre was exercising on a treadmill, Don came downstairs. He had been researching for an interview with Paul Newman when the idea hit him: "Let’s build a working cattle ranch for kids with cancer." He told Deirdre, "I remember the best days of my life were on a cattle ranch. It’s such an empowering feeling."

With little direction, the two began turning their dream into a reality. Using more than $1 million of their own money, they bought the ranch’s original 810 acres. "It’s insane the way we did it," Don says. "We didn’t have any plan."

They returned to New York, established a public foundation and began fundraising in earnest. The first morning Imus announced their plans, he raised $4.2 million in three hours. They raised $30 million that year and eventually reached $40 million. It took nearly $25 million to build the ranch, which costs $1.8 million annually to operate.

"We raise $2 million a year," Don says of the ranch that children attend for free. "We raise about enough to run it."

The wild, wild West

The children, some of whom have never been on an airplane, don’t know what to expect as they enter the ranch gates. "It’s huge!" says Kelly Davis, 11, of Destin, Fla. "It took about 15 minutes to go from the gate to the hacienda."

Soon they come upon an eight-building, 1800s Western town complete with general store, dance hall and marshal’s office. "When we pulled up to the town, our eyes just opened, ‘This is awesome!’" says Brittany.

The infirmary is housed in the Black Lamb Saloon, complete with bar, swinging doors and piano. "We wanted the feeling of dating the whole ranch back to the 1800s, back to the time of Wyatt Earp," Deirdre says. "We had to have an infirmary, so we put it in the saloon, where the kids can belly up to the bar for their meds. It’s about the spirit of entertaining the kids and having an authentic Western experience."

About a quarter-mile up the dusty road is the 14,000-square-foot hacienda, where the Imuses and children sleep, eat and relax. The Imuses eat every meal with the children as the music of Cowboy Troy and the White Stripes blares from a stereo. "We decided from day one that we were going to do this like a family cattle ranch," Deirdre says. "That’s why we built the big hacienda. We wanted it to be like Bonanza, with everyone eating together."

The ranch cuisine is vegan—no meat, dairy, sugar or flour—because Deirdre is committed to providing a non-toxic atmosphere for the children. Many of the pesticide-free vegetables are grown in a nearby greenhouse. As founder of the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology at New Jersey’s Hackensack University Medical Center, she is passionate about identifying and preventing environmental factors that cause cancer. "It’s very challenging because they are used to eating whatever they want or junk food," ranch chef Dennis Benjamin says. "As long as you present it to them as something they’ll recognize, that’s half the battle."

The days begin at 6:15 a.m., when the cowpokes begin their round of chores, such as feeding the various animals scattered around the ranch. After breakfast, half of the children do ranch chores, including planting, watering and gathering eggs, while the others proceed to the barn, where they begin the process of muck removal before grooming, bridling and saddling the horses for a two-hour ride. "These aren’t dude-ranch horses," Don says. "They are serious horses."

After lunch and an hour break for swimming or napping, the children switch projects. After dinner, they have about 90 minutes to play board games or pool before lights out at 9 p.m.

The kids are accompanied by the Imuses virtually every hour of the incredibly long and tiring day. The only non-paid ranch workers, Don and Deirdre don’t just run the ranch; they are the ranch. They lead every horse exercise and follow the kids on their daily chores in their pickup truck. Also accompanying the children at all times are two child-life specialists, who are trained in working with medical-needs children, as well as a nurse, doctor or medic who travel in a camouflaged Humvee that serves as an ambulance.

"We were so naïve when we got involved," Don says. "We thought the kids coming through here have cancer and they get better. Then we had the first kid die. That had an affect on us. Over the past five or six years, about 15 kids have died."

"It’s tough saying goodbye because you don’t know if it’s going to be goodbye forever," adds Deirdre, noting that two of every 10 children with cancer will die. "It makes you realize how many kids need help. There’s a list and we can only take so many.

"We get very emotional," she says. "By the end of the summer, it takes a toll on everybody who works here, but that’s OK because the focus isn’t on us, it’s on the kids."

Beverly Keel is American Profile's Entertainment Editor.

first appeared: 8/21/2005http://www.americanprofile.com/article/4870.html?printable=true
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aplusmnt

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The caved in because they did not want Al Sharpton to cause riots with protesters as he has in many other cases, rather he was right or not. People have died in the past because Sharpton turned a small thing into a riot.

The recording artist that use this language have buildings that can be picketed. Why does he not protest, picket and cause riots at Puff Daddy's record label because they promote such language on the air waves.

I hope Imus gets another radio show, I for sure will listen to it even though I never listened before.

Its a shame that guys like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson get to ride the coat tails of MKJ without suffering the same demise that he did.
 

P Joe

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What I find funny is the same people that stood up and defended the Dixie Chicks, have called for Imus to be fired, or have quietly stood by and watched.

I believe that what Imus said was pretty racist, but I believe that he has the right to voice his opinion. But when you voice that opinion over the national air waves you deserve any critism and fallout that comes with it.

I feel that the likes of 'Jesse" and 'Al' have gone to far with it. Why does no one call for their jobs for the critizism of the Duke lacrosse players? Those 2 have done more to oppress the black population than help it.
 

aplusmnt

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Saw Imus on TV with his wife, I sure hope he has money invested because his biggest punishment might be loosing that young hot wife if he goes broke. Surely she did not marry him for his looks or personality :lol:
 

T99

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A writer for the Kansas City Star by the name of Jason Whitlock IS calling for the "firing" of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton as leaders for black America. I didn't see his column but I've seen him on a couple news shows tonight and he's very articulate and made some really good points. He thinks that Jackson and Sharpton are still fighting for blacks like it's 1965. He's sick of hip-hop which he refers to as "prison culture." He also said something I'd been thinking but hadn't heard anyone else say. I can't quote him word for word but it was something to the effect that noone, including Don Imus, is powerful enough to take away that team's victory and their joy and happiness. That's why I've said those girls (I refuse to call them women since they're not acting like grown women) are PLAYING THE VICTIMS in this.

Did I mention that Jason Whitlock is BLACK?
 

aplusmnt

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T99 said:
A writer for the Kansas City Star by the name of Jason Whitlock IS calling for the "firing" of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton as leaders for black America. I didn't see his column but I've seen him on a couple news shows tonight and he's very articulate and made some really good points. He thinks that Jackson and Sharpton are still fighting for blacks like it's 1965. He's sick of hip-hop which he refers to as "prison culture." He also said something I'd been thinking but hadn't heard anyone else say. I can't quote him word for word but it was something to the effect that noone, including Don Imus, is powerful enough to take away that team's victory and their joy and happiness. That's why I've said those girls (I refuse to call them women since they're not acting like grown women) are PLAYING THE VICTIMS in this.

Did I mention that Jason Whitlock is BLACK?

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
 

IL Rancher

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They have been reading this on the air around here a lot... Most won't stand for what Imus said but most will point out the hypocracy of the situation. I wish I could say that I think this would marginalize people like Sharpeton and jackson but it won't. I wish the BET's and the like would hold their people, be it preformersm, "talent" or management to the same standards that Jesse and Al want NBC, CBS et all to told their people too but it won't happen. I don't know if the average black person doesn't se the hypocracy, if the average white person is so super paranoid and sensative of what minorities might think in a situation like this so they fail to respond appropriatly or what.. I know I am tired of hearing about how great the Rutgers team handled this because they didn't handly it all so great IMO.. No one involved did...

Oh well, in another few weeks Al or Jesse or some black entertainer will say something about whitie or about nappy headed hos and nothing will be done or even thought about it. A white guy will say something milder and will get racked over the coal..It is a crock, it is a shame and our country will never be able to move past the racial divides as long as this is the case.
 

aplusmnt

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IL Rancher said:
I know I am tired of hearing about how great the Rutgers team handled this because they didn't handle it all so great IMO.. No one involved did...

I agree, makes me sick to look at that weak (nappy headed :lol: ) coach. She should have stood up for her girls and told Imus to bite the big one. Instead she played the victim card that so many blacks (as well as many whites) like to play. I doubt she or her girls ever heard of Imus before it all blew up. How can what someone says that you never heard of scar you for life :roll:

IL Rancher said:
It is a crock, it is a shame and our country will never be able to move past the racial divides as long as this is the case.

And this is exactly what the Sharpton's and Jackson's want. If the divides are gone then they are out of a Job. They are leaches on society that make their fortunes based on the division of our society. :mad:

Just like the excitement a ambulance chasing lawyer feels when he hears them sirens. So goes the Rush Sharpton and Jackson get when they hear of a black person suffering at the hands of a white person physically or verbally.
 
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