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Are you here for the free Sanjaya shirt? YOINK! Suckers!
I wonder where this is going? Only Wiz knows…
In other news, you already know I’m busy drawing on Hero By Night. Right?
In other other news, as a longtime loyal Howard Stern listener it is a joyful day as Imus has been canned. Howard has been saying for years now that Imus was a douchebag and would always say racial things in private. According to Howard Imus even once called a secretary at WNBC the “n” word to her face. Howard actually tried to turn him in back then, but NBC told him to “fuck off”. There were rules back then that you weren’t even allowed to say hello to Imus or look him in the eyes. Seriously, fuck that guy. It’s been a lonnnnnnng time coming. I wish Howard would come in on Friday now for a special “funeral” show. C’mon Howard! 4 day schedule stinks for us listeners!
And if we’re going to talk about racial insensitivity and get serious for a moment. What the hell is up with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton being so out for blood? I mean, I’m glad Imus lost his job, but still… Seems no one remembers the crap Jesse Jackson said about jews in New York. Or even more recently Al Sharpton backing the accuser in that rape case that was just dropped. I agree we need to have some discussions about things in this country, but the door has GOT to swing both ways. Dude, Rush Limbaugh has called Halle Barry and Barrack Obama “Halfrican Americans”, and that friggin OUTRAGES ME. Where are the pitchforks and torches on that turd’s doorstep.
I shudder to think that Rosie O’Donnel is right this time. The THOUGHT POLICE are coming. And now, an oldy but a goody from our tremendous pop-culture archive….
April 13th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Happy Friday the 13th!
April 13th, 2007 at 7:15 am
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.
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.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Sad thing is this country is more and more messed up every day. Al and Jesse have to have something better to worry about than Imus. Instead it just always seems to be that they always pick their fight against white people. Trash comes in all different colors. Maybe people need to stop being so narrow minded and focus on more important things.
I read a newspaper article with a comparision between Rap music and what Imus said. Basically it said that rap music is about the same things that came from his mouth, but why is it that rap is not censored and canned?
One problem i have about all of this is in our society today it seems like it is totally ok for black people to hate on white people all they want and they get away with it, but when a white person does it all hell breaks lose.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:28 am
I also want to say that Primitive Screwhead is right on alot of things there.
And i also want to say “Bill Cosby”
April 13th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Well I think with the Imus situation it wasn’t exactly what he said, but who he said it about and in what context. It’s really apples and oranges when you compare Imus to what rappers or muscians say. Imus took a different “road” in being on the news and across public airways with politicians and talking about real issues.
I dont think we should go on some censorship crusade or anything.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:30 am
1)
The link to the news article I posted http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/columnists/jason_whitlock/
2)
Apples & Oranges? I disagree. Using mass media for profit puts them in the same group. So I say they are more like Lemons & Limes. Ya digg.
3)
I want FULL freedom of speech.
Let the haters hate. Let the lovers love.
I the end there is no need for uproar.
Just change the channel.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:46 am
I seem to remember a classic quote:
“Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll”
Before anyone starts to play the “rap music is the root of all evil” card… let’s just remember, popular music has a long history of being self-destructive.
And as for Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson… I hate when people, white or black, get upset about their crusades or media tirades. I get downright IRATE when they compare Al Sharpton and/or Jesse Jackson’s comments with someone like Don Imus or Bill O’Reilly– cause, no one is seriously LISTENING to Sharpton and Jackson! The ONLY time you hear from them or see them on TV is when an incident like this comes up. They’re powerless! Yet, the O’Reillys of the world, the Imuses– they’re sponsored by some of the BIGGEST MEDIA CONGLOMERATES IN THE COUNTRY.
Who do YOU think has a bigger microphone?
The problem isn’t that Imus slipped up… the problem isn’t rap music… my problem is that major media outlets SEE what’s going on, see the problems ahead (whether it be Imus’ long history of caustic commentary or G-Unit’s litany of ho verse) and they DO NOTHING until there’s a train wreck.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:51 am
“rap music is the root of all evil” card
I wasn’t
my problem is that major media outlets SEE what’s going on, and they DO NOTHING until there’s a train wreck
Amen!
April 13th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Nono, Prim. Wasn’t directing that at you. I was talking more about the the Whitlock article. I’m on a tear this morning, in general, so sorry if they came out wrong.
April 13th, 2007 at 11:33 am
No probalo Wiz
Like everything, I agree & disagree with stuff in that article.
I thought it was worth posting, though.
So how about that Llama , huh?
Oh that’s wacky…
April 13th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Ive been a fan of Imus’ for 20 years. I feel the comments were not done maliciously. It was a throw away joke. The problem was it was aimed at unknown girls. If they were famous stars, politicians, etc. no one would have cared. But these girls weren’t famous. They were just playing a basketball game.
His apology on Friday was weak. On Monday, after the sh*t started hitting the fan, he spoke from his heart and sounded much more contrite. He was set to meet with the team, hear them, and explain what he meant and what his show is about. It should have end with that. But then Sharpton/Jackson stepped in and started the “media train” as Wiz stated. There’s never a tv camera those two don’t like. I’ll be waiting for their apology to the Duke lacrosse team. And waiting…
And shame on MSNBC and CBS for caving in to those who were pulling their ads and protesting. Thursday and Friday Imus was hosting the 18th annual telethon for SIDS, Kids with cancer, and his ranch where cancer kids go during the summer. MSNBC dropped the show Thursday so the telethon wasn’t shown nationwide and CBS fired him before he could finish the telethon Friday morning. An opportunity to see Imus doing something for good was thrown away. But those who only want to see the negative won out.
This isn’t meant to be an “Imus apologist” post. There is blame to go everywhere. I hope something positive comes out of it.
April 13th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Aren’t you all forgetting the REAL victims of this incident ? The women athletes of the Rutgers basketball team . They’ve been dragged through the media mud and had their very natures sullied by an insensitive misogynist . Please , let’s not confuse the issue.
April 13th, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Hey, kids! “Diane” popped in again. Turned the whole thing into a rant about misogyny.
Raise your hand if you didn’t see that coming.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Well it’s all crazy talk from here on out…
“Oh my beloved ice-cream bar, how I love to lick your creamy center…and your oh so nutty chocolate covering. You’re not like the others. You like the same things I do; wax paper, boiled football leather, DOG BREATH! We’re not hitch hiking anymore, we’re riding.”
“You’re talking crazy..”
“Oh no, I know what you want. You coveted my ice-cream bar!”
“Come on now”
“No you don’t! You can’t take it from me now. I’ve had this ice-cream bar since I was a child. People, always trying to take it from me. Why won’t they leave me… ALONE!!!”
April 14th, 2007 at 1:39 am
That is wrong. So very, very wrong.
Why would the Llama pick up the shirt with his LEG?