Sure, the comments Don Imus made about the players for the Rutgers women's basketball team were cruel. But were they racist?
When the story broke, I thought the outrage would be over his use of the word, 'ho', but people seem to be up in arms over the adjective nappy? What is wrong with a term that describes hair as being closely twisted or curled?
If the Reverend Al Sharpton, the loudest voice shouting from the crowd, were to describe a group of Scandinavian basketball players as silky haired ho's, would we shout racist?
Edy, a news commentator with Fox News actually reported that Don Imus has made racial slurs in the past, and she quoted Imus as saying: Colin Powell is a weasel, and that Bill Richardson- a Hispanic presidential candidate- is a sissy.
Am I missing something? I don't consider either word a racial slur.
Maybe it's because Imus made a comment about a group who happen to be of a different color? And if you do that, any word uttered can be construed as racism.
Calling these girls ho's was just plain wrong. But if using the word nappy makes him a racist then we need to whittle thousands of words from Webster’s dictionary.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
DON IMUS: RACIST OR JERK?
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I don't care for Imus either way, but all this crap over a few words makes me sick. I am really did not know that the blacker the skin, the thinner it is. WTF can't people take a joke anymore? Where are Rev Al and Rev Jessie on the Duke lacrosse case, rap lyrics and comedians like the late great Richard Pryor? If anyone in this country is prejudice, it is those 2 and their followers. Keep up the good work JT.
Every day I am confronted by black music performers using far worse sexists and racially intolerant language.
Rev. Al Sharptongue says he is going after the music industry now. Pat Boone is probably next on his hit list.
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