Someone should explain to guys like Don Imus that it’s embarrassing when white guys put on a faux ghetto persona they got from the movies. They sound stupid and they are at risk for finding themselves saying things they would never say if they actually talked to real Black people once in a while.
So Don Imus described some young, female college basketball players as whores, adding a racial slur. He didn’t know at first why so many people got upset, but now that he’s getting flack from all sides he’s apologizing. He should look in the mirror and see what impression it makes when an elderly man with Dorian Gray hair slimes some young women just because he thinks it makes him sound tough and macho. I just wonder why his daddy didn’t raise him better.
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It was a stupid comment, but who among us has not made a stupid comment from time to time, Mr. Imus made his over the air waves, are those ladies nappy headed ho’s, i think not. Mr.Imus made a dumb comment in jest, that i know he is sorry for.
Mr. Imus is a broadcasting icon who has made a career of the outrageousness, of some very funny humor, or very brave icon bashing (for example his capture of the character of the Monica cigar masturbating by Mr. Clinton (reciprocated) in the closet of the Oval Office). Unfortunately, Mr. Imus is also frequently less mature than his 65 years and can be nasty or just stupid. The recent unfortunate episode of foot-in-mouth does not define a career, but it does highlight carlessness on the part of Mr. Imus. However, I suggest that the reaction to Mr. Imus’ remarks say more for the loss of Americans to say whatever they wish (can you say: Freedom of Speech) in favor of political correctness that totally destroys that right. The obvious response to Mr. Imus, is to use the right to speak back. Indeed, Mr. Imus’ language was very moderate in tone compared to the vitriol of the rap music genre or, indeed, the language used by Black and White “comics”
as seen in clubs or cable television. One cannot help but be struck by the condemnation that has sprung from the likes of Reverend Jackson (remember “Hymie Town,” or Mr. Jackson’s acknowledged mistress/employee and their child), or Reverend Sharpton and his attacks on New York police and the rape that never happened, as well as his other impolitic and racist remarks. I am amazed.
Mr. Imus has done much good: his creation of a program for children with cancer; support for autistic children; his leadership in building a rehab facility for wounded soldiers. Mr. Imus is not a racist; he is an equal opportunity “tweaker” and he went too far. He apologized and is contrite. That should be enough. Beyond Imus, we really need to address the issue of free speech and not political correctness; one is enduring and the other is a dead end. Freedom does not mean protection from the “stupid” but it does provide the means of redress: more speech.
it’s one thing for a famous, powerful man to bash another famous powerful man. it’s not anything to admire when a mature man calls some college girls ‘whores’. i still don’t think he would have said it in plain english. he was carried away by his sense of his own coolness.
anyway, his speech is as free as anyone else’s, the only thing he has to worry about is whether his boss will still pay him to talk.
“ninjanurse” makes some excellent observations especially with regards to the market place as the determinant of Mr. Imus and his media presence. In the end, I suspect all this attention to Mr. Imus will be a boost to his ratings, a fact not lost by MSNBC, probably the absolute last-place network where Imus is a big plus for their advertising dollars and viewer numbers. So perhaps Mr. Imus and lapse of judgement will turn out to be a positive for him and the network.