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I am sure you all are aware of radio personality Don Imus's questionable remark about the Rutgers Female Basketball Team. But now he is being fired. Ok, it might have been a mean thing to say, but where's Freedom of Speech?

This guy is basically known for not being politically correct, but you never see groups going after him. He also does a lot of charity work through his show to help real people in need.

Now you have Al Sharpton, who I guess has nothing better to do, saying how racists he is. Come on! The guy is a comedian basically. Why is it that Black entertainers can make fun of white people and sing racist lyrics in popular songs, but when one other ethnicity makes a joke about a group Al Sharpton likes, it is racism? How come Jesse Jackson isn't asked to retire because he made fun of Jews? Enough already, I think Al Sharpton is being counterproductive. I think he is building walls of racism by trying to make non-racist things racist. Why create this tension? Isn't that what equality is all about? I can laugh at you and you can laugh at me, but we are all laughing together, isn't that the point of comedy?

The way I see it is that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are not getting the point.Don Imus said he was sorry,you would thing that religous people like Sharpton and Jackson should forgive him.They would rather care about the civil right issue at hand.Now if a African American said the same comment no one would be offended.

Plus, there are already gangster rappers that are a whole lot worse in every way. Don Imus doesn't really matter in the grander scheme of things. MTV holds far more negative influence than he ever will.

I heard a reporter ask Al Sharpton this amazing question.

"Common consensus is starting to believe that racial intolerance only applies to white people. There are racial attacks littered throughout the Rap community, but they never fall victim to such charges. How do you feel about this?"

Brilliant question, text book answer.

Not a direct quote, but a summary. Al said, "No thats not true. Anyone can commit a hate crime... The NAACP only files charges on behalf of minorities."

'Those Nappy-headed Hoes' was the phrase that got Imus fired. This same man said not a month earlier, 'They should crucify Bush'. Why didn't he get fired for that?

Also, I've been with female athletes... Black, White and Hispanic... they were all Hoes. For the record, a Hoe is a girl that loves sex. Whores charge for sex.

As for Nappy-headed, well, that just depends on how often you clean your hair, which I noticed in the press release, all the rutgers girls had freshly washed and natural hair... you know, making it look like Imus was lying, like everyone does when they have to prove their side.

I just get the feeling that this was blown way out of proportions by the NAACP for the purpose of dragging racism back to the frontlines of the news again... because if racism ends, both Sharpton and Jackson will be pretty much unemployed.

People still even listen to Imus?

Emperor Primacron the 1st wrote:People still even listen to Imus?

sadly my dad used too when he was on tv.

First of all, anyone who considers either Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson to be moral authorities is an idiot, regardless of their race.

Sharpton is an anti-semitic hypocrite who once referred to Greeks as "homosexuals", and Jackson is a philandering, opportunist, closet-racist if I ever saw one. I'd gleefully shoot myself in the head before ever offering an apology to either of those pharisees. It isn't 1960 anymore, and the crap they preach is dated and utterly irrelevant to today's racial issues.

PorQPine wrote:First of all, anyone who considers either Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson to be moral authorities is an idiot, regardless of their race.

Sharpton is an anti-semitic hypocrite who once referred to Greeks as "homosexuals", and Jackson is a philandering, opportunist, closet-racist if I ever saw one. I'd gleefully shoot myself in the head before ever offering an apology to either of those pharisees. It isn't 1960 anymore, and the crap they preach is dated and utterly irrelevant to today's racial issues.

It's like in South Park-- Jesse Jackson is the self-appointed "king of black people."

I think by making every little thing into a race issue, Al Sharpton and his ilk are making it hard to recognize and take seriously any real race issue, because they are always sounding an alarm and crying wolf, and when something real comes along, nobody will believe them. So they are hurting more than helping.

When the whole thing broke out, I made an offhand comment while at work that these woman, who just won a major victory, were allowing themselves to be robbed of that victory by making a bigger deal of this comment than it needed to be. Someone at work then complained to my boss, and I then recieved a verbal warning. Meanwhile, I have to listen every damn day to people speculating as to who the father of Anna Nicole's baby is...like I care, and frankly I found the whole thing stupid, un-news-worthy and offensive in it's own right. But I would never complain to my boss about it, but I may start making exceptions.

As for the "good" racist...I mean, reverend Sharpton and cohort Jackson like nothing more than to set back the race a few decades or so - at least it keeps them in the lime light. Actual racial harmony would put them out of business. But then, I know of very few black people who give a damn about what they say.

This is not a freedom of speech issue. If Imus had been arrested for saying what he did, THEN it would be a free speech issue. The US government gives its citizens the right to say pretty much anything up to the point of serious threats. However, what you say CAN get you in trouble with people you work with.

Case in point. I can stand on the street corner and scream that my boss is an idiot and that he has the IQ of a primary school dropout. The government wouldn't give me a second look so long as I wasn't harassing other people while I was doing it. If I said that TO my boss AT work, I would be fired.