The only issue that I have is that he called them "hos". The nappy headed part? c'mon... would you feel better if he called them curly headed?
Calling young women that you don't know hos is a little offensive, but I don't get the uproar from the idiots like Sharpton.
I think Imus is annoying, and really not at all funny, so I typically don't watch or listen to him. If you are offended by him, then don't listen to him.
I'm just tired of "racist" language that some people use that others aren't allowed to.
and nice try with the liberal comment bootlegger
Oddly enough, Imus was doing some tounge-in-cheek humor. Imagine that.
Now some dumbass is claiming she is fearing for life and deeply traumatized by what Imus said. Thye sista' sees a payday coming. Suma' dat bling-bling is twinkling in her eyes. Oh yeah, baby! Now we get down to the true motivation behind all of this.
wow that guy is fucking crazy and whites are so stupid for taking this shit!!
we run and throw imus on every fucking news channel every five minutes kissing black peoples asses and there is a guy who says this and nothing is ever mentioned about it. all imus did was make a simple fucking joke which i thought was funny. the same as i think chris rock is funny when he makes white jokes.
and besides a white girl can be a nappy headed ho just as well. the guy in this clip is out of his mind and had this been a white guy saying the opposite..all our major cities would still be smoldering from the riots.
Oh dear dad
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I'll ride the wave
Where it takes me
I'll hold the pain
Release me
If "nappy headed ho's" was used in the context of Scary movie 4 it would be considered hilarious. If Dave Chapelle said it, no prob...funny. These are real people and it's specifically directed however.
Another case of a white mans botched attempt at black humor.
Imus ratings go up...Sharpton get his podium.
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
Imus's comments weren't ignored here because he's a liberal (and he's not even a liberal...) they were ignored because no one really gives a damn about Imus. I watch him sometimes as opposed to the Today show because he's far less annoying and actually talks about news.
As for his comments I don't really care. He was trying to be funny - but he's not funny. Therefore he resorts to silly racist comments. People need to chill out, esp. the Rutgers. Oooo an old man in a cowboy hat on CNN called you a ho, get the fuck over it.
Imus's comments weren't ignored here because he's a liberal (and he's not even a liberal...) they were ignored because no one really gives a damn about Imus. I watch him sometimes as opposed to the Today show because he's far less annoying and actually talks about news.
As for his comments I don't really care. He was trying to be funny - but he's not funny. Therefore he resorts to silly racist comments. People need to chill out, esp. the Rutgers. Oooo an old man in a cowboy hat on CNN called you a ho, get the fuck over it.
Exactly a point I was going to make. Why the heck does CNN make this a cover story? A front page picture of Imus looking all conspicuous and disgruntled.
With a war going on, and literally hundreds of much more important issues to put forward...
how utterly ridiculous is that?
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
'Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, whose presidential candidacy has been backed by Imus on the air, said he would still appear on Imus' program.'
hell, he even support rick santorum!!!
standin above the crowd
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
Isn't time to put this issue to rest. The man apologized, he was suspended by his employer, and is loosing advertising sponsors like Staples and Bigelow Tea Company. It was a tasteless comment but there is no need to take the man's head off for it. Also people to seem really quick to forget that don Imus has done a great deal of charitable work for children's cancer research. He has the Don Imus Ranch and he and his wife have the Diedre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology at the Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. I'm not defending what the man said but let's not overlook the countless contributions he has made to a noble cause.
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
Another question I have about this...there are 2 or 3 white girls on the team...so how was it a racist comment?
Or do they just not matter?
I've seen nappy headed white people.
They are covered under the "Ho's" reference.
seriously,
When Right wing hack mouthpeice Neil Borts was talking about renewing the voter rights act (that's right folks, in 2007 black people voting is still conditional) he said that we could increse voter turnout by "putting the polls in crackhouses."
That's pure, unfiltered hate folks. was Borts fired? nope. criticized? of course not.
Imus says the most inappropriate things to make people laugh, not to spread hate.
I'd gladly give them the head of Imus if it meant sweeping out true hatemongers on our airwaves like Coulter, Rush, and Neil Borts.
When Right wing hack mouthpeice Neil Borts was talking about renewing the voter rights act (that's right folks, in 2007 black people voting is still conditional) he said that we could increse voter turnout by "putting the polls in crackhouses."
That's pure, unfiltered hate folks. was Borts fired? nope. criticized? of course not.
Imus says the most inappropriate things to make people laugh, not to spread hate.
I'd gladly give them the head of Imus if it meant sweeping out true hatemongers on our airwaves like Coulter, Rush, and Neil Borts.
not to rain on your parade but you might want to look into the Dems for registering blacks to vote illegally by giving them cigarettes and beer (talk about insulting) and having dead people vote dems in the last two elections....this happened here in St. Louis and was big issue as it was in other places
its funny that your list of people who you want to rid of all right wing or Republican...trust me there are plenty of people on the other side i would love to rid of...Sharpton, Franken, Clinton, Kerry, Pelossi, Olberman, Maher, Kennedy, Gore
If all these companies and popular voices worried more about solving bigger problems and not this imus whatever the hell he said, perhaps some real work can be done.
jackson, sharpton and all these companies on the boycott of his show, what the hell! bigger issues to deal with people!
Why would there be an outcry over someone that no one has ever heard of?
My whole life
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
not to rain on your parade but you might want to look into the Dems for registering blacks to vote illegally by giving them cigarettes and beer (talk about insulting) and having dead people vote dems in the last two elections....this happened here in St. Louis and was big issue as it was in other places
its funny that your list of people who you want to rid of all right wing or Republican...trust me there are plenty of people on the other side i would love to rid of...Sharpton, Franken, Clinton, Kerry, Pelossi, Olberman, Maher, Kennedy, Gore
you're a good republican
since you deflected my point and didn't actually address it, I'll take it that you agree with neil borts.
They do we just don't here about because the media doesn't cover it. I guess it's not as exciting as watcing stupid drama unfold on our televisions.
sharpton and jackson? you sure about that? i only hear from them when a white guy does something bad to a black person. i never hear them on the soapbox speaking out against violence or promoting education?
you could be right, perhaps they do it just doesnt get covered, but i tend to follow alternative media and i havent seen anything, ever.
sharpton and jackson? you sure about that? i only hear from them when a white guy does something bad to a black person. i never hear them on the soapbox speaking out against violence or promoting education?
you could be right, perhaps they do it just doesnt get covered, but i tend to follow alternative media and i havent seen anything, ever.
I don't know about Jackson but I know that Sharpton has. He is extremely outspoken about the way that rap artist portray a negative image of black people. He is also outspoken about black on black violence, gangs, the mysogonists attitude towards women in the black community. I think Sharpton is an ass but he does do a lot for the black community.
"When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
"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. "
id like to put don anus, al sharpton, mike and the mad dog, and the rutgers womens basketball team all in a meat grinder and see what comes out. . .already sick to death of this whole story. . .they all can blow me as far as im concerned.
i have wished for so long, how i wish for you today
JEFFREY ROSS ROGERS 1975-2002
id like to put don anus, al sharpton, mike and the mad dog, and the rutgers womens basketball team all in a meat grinder and see what comes out. . .already sick to death of this whole story. . .they all can blow me as far as im concerned.
i could always sell the leftovers to mcdonalds, i think it would be better quality meat then what they're serving. . .they could even put anus' barbeque sauce on it
i have wished for so long, how i wish for you today
JEFFREY ROSS ROGERS 1975-2002
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Oddly enough, Imus was doing some tounge-in-cheek humor. Imagine that.
Now some dumbass is claiming she is fearing for life and deeply traumatized by what Imus said. Thye sista' sees a payday coming. Suma' dat bling-bling is twinkling in her eyes. Oh yeah, baby! Now we get down to the true motivation behind all of this.
http://www.break.com/index/double_standard.html
we run and throw imus on every fucking news channel every five minutes kissing black peoples asses and there is a guy who says this and nothing is ever mentioned about it. all imus did was make a simple fucking joke which i thought was funny. the same as i think chris rock is funny when he makes white jokes.
and besides a white girl can be a nappy headed ho just as well. the guy in this clip is out of his mind and had this been a white guy saying the opposite..all our major cities would still be smoldering from the riots.
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I'll ride the wave
Where it takes me
I'll hold the pain
Release me
Another case of a white mans botched attempt at black humor.
Imus ratings go up...Sharpton get his podium.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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As for his comments I don't really care. He was trying to be funny - but he's not funny. Therefore he resorts to silly racist comments. People need to chill out, esp. the Rutgers. Oooo an old man in a cowboy hat on CNN called you a ho, get the fuck over it.
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Oh my, they dropped the leash.
Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!
"Make our day"
Exactly a point I was going to make. Why the heck does CNN make this a cover story? A front page picture of Imus looking all conspicuous and disgruntled.
With a war going on, and literally hundreds of much more important issues to put forward...
how utterly ridiculous is that?
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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yes he is...a self proclaimed one at that
as far as the Rutgers girls, i like the drama act they put on at the press conference, maybe instead of shooting hoops they should become actors??
how many 'liberals' support mccain????
http://www.chippewa.com/articles/2007/04/10/ap/entertainment/d8odrp000.txt
'Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, whose presidential candidacy has been backed by Imus on the air, said he would still appear on Imus' program.'
hell, he even support rick santorum!!!
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
maybe its all the years of jack daniels?? haha
WOW i was blown away by this!!!
i had to share this with some other people on myspace...thanks for this
where is the outcry for this Mr. Sharpton??? anyone??? Jesse Jackson???
They were playing basketball -- far from a man's sport
Or do they just not matter?
I've seen nappy headed white people.
Bad link...but I thought he supported Kerry last election? Which granted..does not make him a liberal.
They are covered under the "Ho's" reference.
seriously,
When Right wing hack mouthpeice Neil Borts was talking about renewing the voter rights act (that's right folks, in 2007 black people voting is still conditional) he said that we could increse voter turnout by "putting the polls in crackhouses."
That's pure, unfiltered hate folks. was Borts fired? nope. criticized? of course not.
Imus says the most inappropriate things to make people laugh, not to spread hate.
I'd gladly give them the head of Imus if it meant sweeping out true hatemongers on our airwaves like Coulter, Rush, and Neil Borts.
not to rain on your parade but you might want to look into the Dems for registering blacks to vote illegally by giving them cigarettes and beer (talk about insulting) and having dead people vote dems in the last two elections....this happened here in St. Louis and was big issue as it was in other places
its funny that your list of people who you want to rid of all right wing or Republican...trust me there are plenty of people on the other side i would love to rid of...Sharpton, Franken, Clinton, Kerry, Pelossi, Olberman, Maher, Kennedy, Gore
jackson, sharpton and all these companies on the boycott of his show, what the hell! bigger issues to deal with people!
Why would there be an outcry over someone that no one has ever heard of?
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
you're a good republican
since you deflected my point and didn't actually address it, I'll take it that you agree with neil borts.
Seems like a nice guy.
They do we just don't here about because the media doesn't cover it. I guess it's not as exciting as watcing stupid drama unfold on our televisions.
sharpton and jackson? you sure about that? i only hear from them when a white guy does something bad to a black person. i never hear them on the soapbox speaking out against violence or promoting education?
you could be right, perhaps they do it just doesnt get covered, but i tend to follow alternative media and i havent seen anything, ever.
I don't know about Jackson but I know that Sharpton has. He is extremely outspoken about the way that rap artist portray a negative image of black people. He is also outspoken about black on black violence, gangs, the mysogonists attitude towards women in the black community. I think Sharpton is an ass but he does do a lot for the black community.
"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. "
...signed...the token black Pearl Jam fan.
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finally, FUCK TICKETMASTER