flip flopper
4/13/2007 3:24:44 AM
it is offensive and racistwhereas the normal guy on the street can get away with it, the popular media figure who relies on advertising revenue can not. the average guy running his racist mouth on a construction site or college campus has a relatively very small sphere of influence. he doesnt have much to lose, and he doesnt have enough critics to make a differencepopular entertainers. OTOH, have a huge sphere of influence. they have a lot of responsibility because they have a lot to lose. and can cause many periphial people to lose. people who also have a lot of power themselves. but even still, you cant treat all entertainers equally. rappers, for instance, can get away with sying the shit they say because of where the money goes. who, exactly, is going to boycott Snoop Dogg's products, if he is deemed offensive by popular opinion? no one that matters to Snoop Dog's producers, thats who.but Imus' program had mainstream audience, on mainstream media channels, with mainstream corporate sponsors. these corporate sponsors are not going to idly stand by while this peckerwood runs his mouth on air, pisses a huge amount of people off, and hurts their bottom line.what is it that all of you free-market-loving Milton Friedman groupies can't understand about this? why is it that a liberal democrat like me has to remind you that corporations are free to choose who the do and who they don't associate their companies with?[Edited on April 13, 2007 at 3:46 AM. Reason : ]
4/13/2007 3:40:55 AM
4/13/2007 3:46:29 AM
It's not innately racist, and it's not as bad as nigger, but that doesn't mean it wasn't racist in this case (whether it was or not in the full context, I don't know, but I can see how someone would construe it as racist).
4/13/2007 3:50:54 AM
^see i kinda agree with that, BUT...i mean where does it stop? its not "innately" racist...well what are we gonna do everytime a group of black people find something "innately" racist- what i hate the most about this is its bringing up good dialogue, but over something so weak on the racism scale("nappy headed hos") that i think its going to hurt their causeu can already see it in the past few days...cnn has been doing tons of stuff on "how rap is bad", etc type stuff...fox news is doing all this- this isnt a good example of a case to drag out like they have because in my opinion, u want to rally around a point that all people will agree on...not something that most(at least in my opinion) white people dont even consider racistits deplorable, and reprehensible, and honestly i could care less if he got fired or not...but racist it is notbut i mean this is all imo so idk...gonna go to bed now maybe- night
4/13/2007 4:00:44 AM
so... what aspect of the word "racist" do you not understand?
4/13/2007 4:11:22 AM
wow...i guess i'm so unracist, that i dont even know all the racist terms that exist- doesnt sound like a bad thing though...hmmmmm...MAYBE AL SHARPTON SHOULD TRY NOT LOOKING AT EVERYTHING AS BEING RACIST AND WE WOULDNT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ITok well i guess i conceed...i seriously didnt think "nappy headed hos" is racist...your weblinks have now made me realize that the words are racist...[Edited on April 13, 2007 at 4:17 AM. Reason : i dont think they are racist still though][Edited on April 13, 2007 at 4:18 AM. Reason : lets just ban the word "nappy" and "hoes"...i think headed is non racist]
4/13/2007 4:15:35 AM
nm. edited after your edit.[Edited on April 13, 2007 at 4:20 AM. Reason : ]
4/13/2007 4:18:52 AM
I just think it's ironic how if they just accepted his apology and let it go we'd be done with the offensive comment but because they haven't "nappy headed ho" has worked it's way into the everyday vernacular of a lot of people.
4/13/2007 8:27:17 AM
4/13/2007 10:45:07 AM
damn. the Rutgers team accepts the apology after they find out he's been fired. Now I'm sure he's like "fuck those ugly bitches."I don't see where "nappy headed hoes" is a racist saying. Atleast now that he's fired, we won't see anymore of Al Sharpton for a while.
4/13/2007 2:02:56 PM
^^ that article sucks. government ownership of anything is disastrous? please.
4/13/2007 2:54:11 PM
4/13/2007 3:03:49 PM
fyi...he went and met with the rutgers team for 2 and a half hours AFTER HE HAD ALREADY BEEN FIREDaka, he wasnt trying to save his job by doing this...i'll give him credit for that
4/13/2007 3:05:20 PM
They would've probably accepted the apology when they appeared on his show if he hadn't been fired.
4/13/2007 3:06:56 PM
If you don't like what someone has to say, then don't listen/watch.If the sponsors want to pull their funding from them, they should do it on their own, according to their own ethical standards. Its your 1st amendment right to be able to say these things, no matter how tasteless and ridiculous they are.Also, I don't see how Sharpton can involve himself in these things anymore. The guy is a criminal and a HUGE racist himself, but the media just chooses to look away. Ridiculous.
4/13/2007 4:12:41 PM
^because if they were to call him out on it, it would be racist. Hypocrisy
4/13/2007 5:05:37 PM
^^no one would be able to successfully mount a racist campaign against a influential black person, such as Sharpton. I mean hell he is offering free tuition to a girl who filed false police reports, and still isn't being called out for that.I just don't think it could happen with the way current society is shaped, and how most people are willing to bend over backwards for "slavery reparations"
4/13/2007 8:35:51 PM
goddamn. you people, i swear.
4/13/2007 8:36:46 PM
^^ya slavery wasn't wrong at all
4/13/2007 9:04:32 PM
Who said anything about slavery being right.We should learn from history, but not dwell on the past.
4/13/2007 10:04:37 PM
4/14/2007 1:29:17 AM
what the hell, dude? did Al Sharpton ass rape your father or something?it's like youre on a mission to hound him everywhere he goes.you oughtta start stalking him at his press conferences [Edited on April 14, 2007 at 2:01 AM. Reason : ]
4/14/2007 2:00:30 AM
^you're right, lets give him a free pass for being a hypocritical cancer on society[Edited on April 14, 2007 at 2:04 AM. Reason : free pass*]
4/14/2007 2:02:08 AM
Al Sharpton stars in "Speech Cops""Bad Words, Bad Words...Whatcha Gonna DoWhatcha Gonna Do When Al Comes for You?"
4/14/2007 2:35:28 AM
Oh, Rev ain't right, his church ain't rightDeacon was a pimp, tell by his ice
4/14/2007 2:37:38 AM
There's still no such thing as bad publicity. I bet it wont be long before Imus nails an even bigger contract with a different media company.
4/14/2007 3:04:38 AM
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_104002437.htmlIf someone goes through with this, well the benefits are obvious, but I shudder to think that if he were to be slaughtered he may receive some martyr status in the black community.[Edited on April 14, 2007 at 8:07 AM. Reason : e]
4/14/2007 8:02:38 AM
i agree wholeheartedly with the article in friday's Technician about racist humor. - racist humor is funny. i wasn't offended when i was jokingly called a "milky bitch"- none of the women on the rutgers team had probably EVER listened to Imus before- they would not have been upset about it had someone not told them they should be- this type of hypocrisy is what will keep racism alivethe things black rappers say are 100x more insulting to black women and women in general. why pick on Imus? why does anyone care if the rutgers team/sharpton/whoever "forgives" Imus or not? they need to get over themselves. he's apologized, and that is enough. Sharpton and Jackson are preventing the United States from becoming an equal society and anyone who thinks differently is ignorant. what they practice is completely contrary to what MLK taught.
4/14/2007 12:29:08 PM
Do you really think that, after hearing that they had been called "nappy headed hos", the girls on the team were not offended? You think they had to be told to be offended?Furthermore, the things SOME rappers say, both black and white, are indeed way more insulting to women than what Imus said. However, how many rappers are talking about specific people? There's a big difference.Finally, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are cunts of the highest caliber. And this fact does not, in any way, have anything to do with what Imus said.
4/14/2007 12:46:38 PM
sure, after hearing they were called "nappy headed hoes" out of context, they would be offended... HOWEVER, as indicated by their own statements regarding the incident with 'whatever', i seriously doubt they felt the need to call a press conference or assembly and demand an apology where maybe, just maybe they might forgive him for his comedy, without the persistence of sharpton.
4/14/2007 1:13:44 PM
4/14/2007 1:34:42 PM
who is it that routinely pisses in your cornflakes?
4/14/2007 1:41:30 PM
^So no response?
4/14/2007 2:02:43 PM
^ nothing you said warrants a response. you are just blindly commenting, and not making a single valid point backed up with any information. try lucky charms sometime.
4/14/2007 2:08:09 PM
^So that's why you're not responding! Or maybe it's because I crushed every bit of bullshit you had to say?
4/14/2007 2:17:59 PM
4/14/2007 2:18:33 PM
Okay, Lemme get it straight, for all you Republican/Imus apologists and other assorted critics of black civil rights leaders....Jesse Jackson = hypocritical race baiterAl Sharpton = hypocritical race baiting unindicted criminalbut ... I would assume that good black folks who mind their manners around white people are okay... right?like, say, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice
4/14/2007 2:37:47 PM
THATs bullshitpeople got some thin skin these days
4/14/2007 2:45:39 PM
in case any of you havent seen it:http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html/
4/14/2007 2:49:29 PM
4/14/2007 2:53:49 PM
^^
4/14/2007 2:55:12 PM
4/14/2007 4:37:48 PM
I wonder how many black children Imus has helped with his charities and on the Imus Ranch....yeah, he's a racist alright fucking double standard.[Edited on April 14, 2007 at 4:46 PM. Reason : a]
4/14/2007 4:44:25 PM
What's funny about all this is that Imus wasn't even that popular to begin with since he was only syndicated by 61 stations nationwide and if it weren't for the blogs, this thing would have probably have passed like a tree falling in the woods with nobody around.
4/14/2007 4:50:00 PM
yet people wanted him to be pulled off the air immediately, some people even wanted cbs to cancel his telethon...seriously wtf
4/14/2007 4:53:53 PM
4/14/2007 7:27:08 PM
^seriously...WTF?
4/14/2007 7:33:34 PM
um, they are public figures. They play basketball on television.and the difference between the telethon and the things you listed is the telethon, so far, has raised over 30 million dollars to charity.
4/14/2007 7:35:17 PM
^No, they are not public figures.And I don't really care about this telethon. My point was that what people want isn't really worth a comment here. By commenting on what these people (who are mostly nameless and possibly nonexistent) want, you're just talking about bullshit. OMG, A HUNDRED PEOPLE WANT THE TELETHON CANCELLED?!?! THEY ARE SO STUPID--I BET THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY IT HAS RAISED--WHAT REACTIONARY IDIOTS! LET'S TALK ABOUT THESE PEOPLE TO DRAW ATTENTION AWAY FROM RACISM AND DON IMUS THE DOUCHEBAG...![Edited on April 14, 2007 at 8:10 PM. Reason : ]
4/14/2007 8:10:00 PM