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Post by OLKoot on Apr 14, 2007 9:55:14 GMT 12.75
On the news just now, the station took a pole on whether or not Imus's firing was the right thing to do.....The results :
yes 26%
No 67%
Don't care 7%
Most also say as I do that this is a violation of his freedom of speech.................Heck, they just ruined a 38 year career on the radio
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Post by Toby Benoit on Apr 14, 2007 11:09:06 GMT 12.75
Maybe he's smarter than we give him credit for. His rights definitely have been violated, he definitely was selected as a target because of his race, and he definitely has been slandered by several millionaire censored s.
If he does call on, "The Seven Savage Jews", he can sue big and retire well!
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Post by Mars on Apr 14, 2007 11:26:42 GMT 12.75
There is a definite trend of firing white males for voicing their opinion. Our freedom of speach is not to "protect" speach that is agreeable but instead to protect offensive speach.
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Post by ET on Apr 14, 2007 11:30:36 GMT 12.75
What happened to Imus is racism. A man was told he couldnt do something based on the color of his skin. In this case it was say nappy headed hos. Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson are the racists in this case.
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Post by ET on Apr 14, 2007 11:48:23 GMT 12.75
I got this off another site.
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.
To reach Jason Whitlock, call (816) 234-4869 or send e-mail to jwhitlock@kcstar.com.
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Post by OLKoot on Apr 14, 2007 13:55:20 GMT 12.75
ET,This guy hit it right on the nail.....Too bad you had to get it from another site, because it probably wont hit the area where the B.S is being thrown.....And its my sentiments already posted except not as eloquently Imus has two coffee shops at the casinos here in Connecticut.....The owners are not shutting him down as 100 % of the sales reciepts goes to support his ranch in Arizona established for children who are cancer victims.....I feel he will be under contract soon with one of those satellite radio stations......I said this before, Howard Stern is getting 500 million dollars plus he owns three satellite stations to say exactly what Imus has said , but more often.....
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Post by Mars on Apr 14, 2007 14:26:13 GMT 12.75
The trick to all this is finding out what the black leaderships real agenda is. Equality is not it! Silencing racism will not make it go away and will only further the divide between the races as silent animosity grows. Their true agenda must involve creating additional strife between the races so they can gain greater influence.
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Post by OLKoot on Apr 15, 2007 6:18:58 GMT 12.75
There will never be silence amongst them because the more they bitch and incite, the more the government caves in and pays. And they are fully aware of this......
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Post by Toby Benoit on Apr 15, 2007 16:33:26 GMT 12.75
I wish I was in position t piss off the black racist leadership. I would ride that scandal for all the money it's worth! In my opinion, Imus walked away from a goldmine by avoiding the fight and apologizng and whining with his, "I'm not a bad person" bull.
I'm gping to call that Jason Whitlock fellow on Monday and congratulate him on a superb article. HE'S the kind of leader that the blacks ought to turn to, not the professional victims, Jackson or Sharpton!
My next novel isn't the kindest to African Americans and I promise Al Sharpton AND Jesse Jackson are getting copies! I'd kill for that kind of media!
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