Don Imus Is Back

[BlackLantern]

I like biscuits.

but you don't value its opinion, do you???

 

[Mike_D202]

When he said "Nappy Headed Ho", he was probably talking about Shia Laboulf.

 

[BlackLantern]

When he said "Nappy Headed Ho", he was probably talking about Shia Laboulf.

who???

 

[Mike_D202]

 

[Docker2.0]

I can't lie, I don't like Imus, but I hope he does get back on the air. It's funny how a white guy can say something ONE TIME and rappers say it constantly but a word isn't said about it. Until they really come hard against rap, I think that Imus should be able to say whatever he wants to. I use to love rap when it was diverse, but now the negative portrayal of "telling it like it is" is ridiculous. It takes someone like Imus to wake everyone up.

 

[BlackLantern]

oh Transformers kid....he was in this other golf movie I saw that was pretty decent....

 

[CristoTheSecond]

I can't lie, I don't like Imus, but I hope he does get back on the air. It's funny how a white guy can say something ONE TIME and rappers say it constantly but a word isn't said about it. Until they really come hard against rap, I think that Imus should be able to say whatever he wants to. I use to love rap when it was diverse, but now the negative portrayal of "telling it like it is" is ridiculous. It takes someone like Imus to wake everyone up.

There's a difference. The women in those videos volunteer to be called such.

 

[Dorian Gray]

^....but when you have 10 to 11 year old boys calling little girls *****es and hoes there's and obvious problem with the "message" it's sending.

dry:

 

[BlackLantern]

There's a difference. The women in those videos volunteer to be called such.

Doesn't make it right....

 

[Docker2.0]

^....but when you have 10 to 11 year old boys calling little girls *****es and hoes there's and obvious problem with the "message" it's sending.

dry:

Thank you! and just cuase the girls in the video "volunteer" for it, doesn't mean the girl up the street does. And you have kids growing up now thinking it's ok to say that cuase "it's a reflection of society" which is bs.

 

[Dorian Gray]

Doesn't make it right....

Actually it does...if those women want to degrade themselves and lack self-respect than they deserve to be treated like that....in many ways it's their fault.

As for a respectable woman, no it's not right.....


Now don't get me wrong here..but I don't see ***** being the equivilant of ****** but I see it ok to call women, even men a ***** when they're being a *****. We men call other men *****es when they won't step up, we say stop *****ing when somone is whining or complaining...that's ok.

But to refer to women as "my *****" or saying "those *****es are fine" etc. in a disrespectful way(as in not acknowleding them as people but as some sort of object or property) I see a problem with that.

 

[Bat-Mite]

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are like internet trolls come to life. Anywho, I think folks should cut Imus some slack. He's an old guy and probably didn't even know what he was saying. He was probably just trying to be funny. Besides, I didn't even know that "nappy-headed hos" was supposedly a racist statement until the drama over this broke out. I don't think the women he directed that statement toward were really deserving of it, and he should have apologized to them, but I don't think he should have lost his job over it.

 

[CristoTheSecond]

Actually it does...if those women want to degrade themselves and lack self-respect than they deserve to be treated like that....in many ways it's their fault.

As for a respectable woman, no it's not right.....

And Imus referred to respectable women...

 

[jaguarr]

Some people never learn:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/06/24/2008-06-24_don_imus_goes_on_defensive_over_race_com.html

Don Imus goes on defensive over race comment backlash

By DAVID HINCKLEY
DAILY NEWS FEATURE WRITER

Updated Tuesday, June 24th 2008, 9:46 AM
Don Imus Platt/Getty

Don Imus

Swinging between frustration and angry exasperation, WABC radio morning host Don Imus Tuesday morning tried to shut down the crossfire over a racial joke he made Monday about pro football player Adam "Pacman" Jones.

The point of the sarcastic joke, Imus said on the air, was that "they arrest black people in this country for no reason. That's all. And that's what people should be outraged about."

Critics said the joke was worded ambiguously, so it could have been taken to suggest blacks have inherent criminal tendencies.

On Monday's show, sportscaster Warner Wolf was talking about how Jones had been suspended for a season and arrested six times.

"What color is he?" asked Imus.

"He's African-American," said Wolf.

"Well, there you go," said Imus. "Now we know."

Karith Foster, a comic herself and one of the show's two black co-hosts, strongly defended Imus and suggested the problem was the difficulty of conveying sarcastic humor.

"A lot people," she said, "don't get it."

Audio and video clips of Monday's exchange quickly moved into wide circulation through the Internet, sparking considerable commentary both pro- and anti-Imus.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who led the ultimately successful campaign to have Imus fired from WFAN and MSNBC last April after he cracked that the Rutgers women's basketball team looked like "nappy-headed ho's," said Monday he would decide shortly whether to seek sanctions in this case.

On the air this morning, Imus bluntly labeled any charge of racism "nonsense. . . . I don't mind people looking at past stuff, but let's not get stupid."

At times Imus seemed to be making a conscious effort to keep his famous short fuse in check while he addressed what he clearly considered baseless accusations.

While he did not address the question of ambiguity in the phrasing, that point was indirectly raised by one of this morning's guests, comedian Dick Gregory.

Gregory said he doesn't personally think Imus is racist and that he took the Pacman comment to be "about racial profiling."
He added, however, "You know what you meant. But a lot of people won't give you the benefit of the doubt - and they shouldn't."

Gregory also said, "I can't tell you what to do from here . . . . I'm sorry it happened."

Imus was defended strongly by his on-air team, with Foster saying, "I wouldn't be here if you hadn't kept your pledge" to make the show an ongoing racial dialogue.

Tony Powell, the other black co-host, said the media should pay more attention to the number of black guests who have talked with racial issues with Imus since he returned to the air in December.

Wolf, who played straight man in the Jones exchange, said, "People are trying to make something out of nothing. Anybody who listens knows that's a joke you make all the time."

Foster noted that when she left "The View," Imus immediately joked that it must be racism.

WABC managers had indicated they talked with Imus on Monday about the Jones comment and didn't expect any disciplinary action - though the scope of public reaction can sometimes affect that decision.

There has also been speculation that even if this all blows away, it could have an impact on what political guests will do the Imus show during the upcoming election season.

In a "gotcha" media world, candidates often have enough trouble defending themselves without also having to explain Imus.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain has been a frequent Imus guest in the past and welcomed him back in December.

Imus would presumably love to have McCain visit sometime between now and November.

What a jackass. You'd think he would have known better than to go near the subject of race ever again. Serves the morons who gave him a job right for putting him back on the air.

jag

 

[Erzengel]

I don't know. I took it as a joke, and I thought the whole "nappy headed hoes" was nonsense too.

 

[jaguarr]

I don't know. I took it as a joke, and I thought the whole "nappy headed hoes" was nonsense too.

Ehh. I've never understood why Imus even has a radio show. He's not funny or entertaining to me, to be honest. The whole "nappy headed hoes" incident got blown out of proportion, I agree, but damn...you'd think he would have learned his lesson the first time around and learned to just leave the topic of race alone. Especially since people have just been WAITING for him to say something like this so they could crucify him for it. He should have NEVER went near the topic ever again on the air. THAT is why he is a jackass.

jag

 

[Superman4ever]

Ehh. I've never understood why Imus even has a radio show. He's not funny or entertaining to me, to be honest. The whole "nappy headed hoes" incident got blown out of proportion, I agree, but damn...you'd think he would have learned his lesson the first time around and learned to just leave the topic of race alone. Especially since people have just been WAITING for him to say something like this so they could crucify him for it. He should have NEVER went near the topic ever again on the air. THAT is why he is a jackass.

jag

Preach, brother preach! I can't stand him...

 

[Superman4ever]

Ehh. I've never understood why Imus even has a radio show. He's not funny or entertaining to me, to be honest. The whole "nappy headed hoes" incident got blown out of proportion, I agree, but damn...you'd think he would have learned his lesson the first time around and learned to just leave the topic of race alone. Especially since people have just been WAITING for him to say something like this so they could crucify him for it. He should have NEVER went near the topic ever again on the air. THAT is why he is a jackass.

jag

Preach, brother preach! I can't stand him...

 

[Superman4ever]

Ehh. I've never understood why Imus even has a radio show. He's not funny or entertaining to me, to be honest. The whole "nappy headed hoes" incident got blown out of proportion, I agree, but damn...you'd think he would have learned his lesson the first time around and learned to just leave the topic of race alone. Especially since people have just been WAITING for him to say something like this so they could crucify him for it. He should have NEVER went near the topic ever again on the air. THAT is why he is a jackass.

jag

Preach, brother preach! I can't stand him...

 

[Spider-X]

personally...i like the idea of this great american double standard being brought into the limelight. Maybe, one of these days, the general population can come to agree that we are waaaaaay too defensive when it comes to these words. Actions speak way louder than words. If Imus said something racist, then went out and started a KKK rally, that would be something to be concerned about. But he didn't do anything close, he just said one phrase.

Get over it people...