What was he thinking?!?

Amen! I don't agree with what he stated and I don't care for him or his show. However, the actual songs and lyrics and shows the majority of players listen to or watch daily have much worse lyrics and words and nothing is done. I just don't get it.

 

That may be so but you only see people like Sharpton and Jackson go bonkers after the white guy that has a position with a microphone, column, etc...

 

Pagones sued and won a $65,000 judgment for defamation. In 1988, a grand jury concluded Brawley "was not the victim of forcible sexual assault" and the whole thing was a hoax. In 2002, when Sharpton was asked if he'd apologize to Pagones, Sharpton replied: "Apologize for what? For believing a young lady?"
In 1991, a 7-year-old black child was killed in a Crown Heights (Brooklyn) traffic accident when a car driven by a Hasidic Jew went out of control. Sharpton showed up to lead protests, calling Jews "diamond merchants" and saying, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." A young Talmudic scholar would later be surrounded by a mob and stabbed to death. Sharpton paid no lasting price, but then liberal Democrats rarely do.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=261097516430190


Just posting this to show my disgust in Al Sharpton. This incident has nothing to do with him, and America can probably heal from this faster without him salting the wounds.

 

The ratings, demographics prove this for the most part. I don't have time to get too thorough here but the shows, music producers, etc know their primary audience and what they like and they aim for them. I have read and read poll after poll, bio after bio, and yes most of these players like this type of music, show, etc...

BTW, there use to be a wrestling character that was a pimp and he would drag around these different hos (white and black women) every week and the crowd cheered louder than any other thing going on that night. I never heard of one complaint by any group over this either.

Hey Film, on a lighter note I think Billy G will take us back to elite status very soon, you?

 

Imus was right though...The Tennessee girls are better looking...

 

I wish every radio and TV talk show host would have a divine eternal case of laringitis. Maybe Jerry Falwell will catch it.

 

Snoop-Dog says his use of the word "ho" is different and while his songs are ok Imus should be fired.

http://www.hollywood.com/news/Snoop_Dogg_Rappers_Hos_Are_Different/3679198

 

Sharpton on the Today show said, "It's different" when black performers use "ho" than when Imus did.

Meredith Viera(sp?) grilled him pretty hard on that one...but he kept falling back on that pitiful double standard.

In my area, rapper Ludacris is coming to town soon. He'll bring with him a lot of fighting, drug use, and hatred toward the police. When he was at a local mall a few years back, a near-riot broke out.

Imus is fired for calling someone a "ho." Ludacris will receive big money from my city for saying the same thing, and it's considered "entertainment."


Yes, there's a double standard...and no, it's not sufficiently addressed.

Point being? People need to stand up and proclaim loudly,

"Racism is wrong. It's wrong if your black, white, asian, hispanic, or a mix of the above."

 

These "so-called" activists (Sharpton, etc) are nothing but two-faced hypocrites.

 

This is how Sharpton makes his living. Imus just got him back in front of the TV cameras once again.
Why is it ok for liberals to call our President "retarded" and "the smirking chimp" and to say blasphemous things about our Savior and His followers, for Jesse Jackson to call Jews "hymies" and to refer New York as "hymietown". Jews didnt go around trying to get Jackson fired. Why? Because it wasnt true.
The last time I looked at the Bill of Rights the first amendment was still there. Its about time we grow some thicker skin and quit getting offended everytime someone makes a derogatory remark about us that we dont like.
The only time I get offended at a derogatory remark made about me is if its true. Then I know I must do something to change my behavior. If it is not true let it run off like water off a duck's back. I have a very good friend who is Italian. Some of the best Italian jokes I have ever heard came from him. Why? Because he is confident in his race. He knows the many contributions his ancestors have made to this world in art, music, scientific discoveries. The same with the Polish, Irish, Germans, Chinese. But blacks seem to get special consideration. IF THE THING SAID ISNT TRUE THEN IGNORE IT.

 

Seems as if that's true only of the white male.

 

Couple of very good columns by KANSAS CITY STAR black sportswriter, Jason Whitlock:

http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html
"...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....."

also:


http://sports.aol.com/whitlock/_a/ti...11111509990001
"...I’m calling for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the president and vice president of Black America, to step down.

Their leadership is stale. Their ideas are outdated. And they don’t give a damn about us.

We need to take a cue from White America and re-elect our leadership every four years. White folks realize that power corrupts. That’s why they placed term limits on the presidency. They know if you leave a man in power too long he quits looking out for the interest of his constituency and starts looking out for his own best interest.

We’ve turned Jesse and Al into Supreme Court justices. They get to speak for us for a lifetime.

Why?

If judged by the results they’ve produced the last 20 years, you’d have to regard their administration as a total failure. Seriously, compared to Martin and Malcolm and the freedoms and progress their leadership produced, Jesse and Al are an embarrassment.

Their job the last two decades was to show black people how to take advantage of the opportunities Martin and Malcolm won.

Have we at the level we should have? No.

Rather than inspire us to seize hard-earned opportunities, Jesse and Al have specialized in blackmailing white folks for profit and attention. They were at it again last week, helping to turn radio shock jock Don Imus’ stupidity into a world-wide crisis that reached its crescendo Tuesday afternoon when Rutgers women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer led a massive pity party/recruiting rally......"

 

Jason Whitlock rocks!!!!!!

 

When I lived near KC I used to listen to Whitlock on the radio and read his columns. He is a very intelligent and articulate guy. He is dead on in his columns regarding Imus.

 

Whitlock has called Babe Ruth "segregation's best player", and has stuck up for Barry Bonds, and I disagree with his stances on both of those issues, but here, he's right on.

 

Carpo is right, proven by the fact that in the rap culture the men call themselfs pimps.

Last night I was fliping the chanels on the toob and ran by a late night show, Carson Daily. He had a rap group preforming and I heard the N word several times along with ho and pimp.

Why does that get a pass.

BTW Imus lost his show permenantly today. Radio and TV is better for it. There should just be consistency. If a white person can not say something without being kicked off the air, then a black person should not be able to say the samething without being kicked off the air.