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For those of you who don’t know (and how couldn’t you I mean this is all over the news) there has been a lot of controversy about the radio personality named Don Imus. He has recently come under mass amounts of fire for his “racistâ€? comments against the Rutgers women’s basketball team. On his radio show he was quote calling the players on the team “nappy headed hoesâ€?. All I have to say about this is what the hell is wrong with our nation? By saying that I’m not referring to Don Imus I’m referring to the media, Al Sharpton (other black leaders), and people who can’t take a joke First and for most this was A JOKE. Nothing more. He didn’t say it to humiliate or trash black women. Just a joke and that is all. I mean for gods sake he was laughing as he said it. This is just a prime example of people overacting and showing race isn’t equal in this country. This is based on the fact white people live in fear because if they slip up on TV/radio and say something to offend a black person there job is at riskFor example if a black radio person got on there show and started calling some white girls “white street whoresâ€? what would happen? Would the white activists flip out and call for the firing of that person? Now I know what your thinking “what white activists?â€?. That is because there is none. In a world where Al Sharpton can get you fired from your job for as much at hinting that your racist white people are found powerless and scared when it comes to talking about race in any mannerAnother thing that Don Imus’s comment brings into question is freedom of speech. His comment is completely in the guidelines of the FCC and should be aloud to be said on radio without any problem. Of course from what it seems if your comments have to do with racism the Constitution becomes Null N Void.I find yet another thing wrong with this story. This is the corruption of the media. People like the good old Reverend Al come on news shows and bitch and wine about how hurtful and scaring these comments were to these girls on the team. Now I have to ask, how many of these girls were actually listing to Don Imus when he made these comment? My guess is about ZERO. These college girls are not going be listing to Don Imus ever. He like 80 fucking years old and these girls were 100 times more likely to be out partying rather then listing to Don Imus make his so called racist comments. The way I look at it if the media would have kept their mouth shut the girls on the team would have never learned anything of the comments Mr.Imus made. I know that this is a long article but I need to vent this. The next thing I want to bring to the attention of the readers is that if Imus can’t talk this way about black girls then why can rappers? I hear songs all the time constantly calling women hoes, bitches and whores. Why is this ok? My guess is that the rappers are black. I mean 50 Cent can get away with calling black girls bitches and hoes all he wants and is his job threatened? That’s a no. And yet Imus who is white male says one thing about black women and bam he’s firedOne final thing I find interesting is that Imus was fired just hours before his radiothon to raise money for needy children. Life’s a bitch isn’t it. These kids will suffer a little more because NBC didn’t have the balls to keep the show around because the media is full of douche bags and camera whores (Al Sharpton)So in closing if this country is racist then it’s against white people because they have to live in fear of the looming shadow that are black activists that scream racism as a girl might scream rape to get out of trouble.
All I have to say about this is that the US is too sensitive.
for reals, people are too politically correct these days
I agree with Blue and Omega, and I'm from the US.
Don Imus is the victim of a politically correct nation.
Equal rights, not special rights!
Let's face it, the line between stero-typing and racism is blurred in America and Don Imus sure as hell didn't cross it.
He got fired. Just saw it on the news.
I googled it and found this also:http://www.denverpost.com/lacrosse/ci_5652023(btw im not from denver)He got fired? No way. I don't believe it. That couldn't possibly be what everyone is talking about.
The UK is worse…
A lot worse…