Don Imus, a radio host has gotten in trouble for making racially offensive comments about female basketball players at Rutger’s University. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have been shouting for firing him. In no way do I defend what Imus said. It was offensive and regardless of what he said was in his heart, he was offensive and insulting.
Having said that, what makes Imus unique? He makes a remark about the women of the basketball team and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are howling for his firing. I can sit at a traffic light and I can be offended hearing loud music blaring from a vehicle referencing women as offensively if not more offensively as anything Imus said. I have attended basketball games where the word “bitch” is blasted from the speakers in the stadium. Where are Al and Jesse? Jackson and Sharpton aren’t leading crusades to keep groups of people from being demeaned. Dare I say it...They appear to be publicity "hoes". They go where the howling will be the loudest and attempt to howl louder. Steve Harvey, comedian and talk show host has been campaigning for a while that our entertainers should be more respectful of people, mainly women in their lyrics. He has stated that the “bitches and hoes” that are referenced are somebody's daughter, wife or mother. Where are Jesse and Al, attempting to howl louder and clean up the coarseness in lyrics?
I am all for advertisers pulling funding from controversial personalities. I don’t listen to people who I find offensive. I don’t purchase albums of those who put people down in their music or writing. But let’s not be hypocrites here! Why is it okay for an African American male to denigrate women, including African American women with impunity, but when a white male does it, all hell breaks loose? Seems like a double standard to me.
Hey Jesse and Al, why don’t you stick up for women across the board. Stop looking at color. There are personalities in our country that are not being held to the same standards you two claim you represent.
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Al Sharpton is just as racist as the next person out there...he's a known attacker of Jews in this country calling them "diamond merchants" and "white interlopers" as well as saying, "If the Jews want to fight, tell them to pin back their yamulkes and lets get it on!" But hey...it's okay for HIM to do it. I completely agree with you. I flipped out on my blog last week at his firing. I do not believe CBS should fire Don Imus and then play the same type of music that uses verbage even MORE offensive than calling someone a "nappy headed ho". He was wrong in what he said, he apologized, the basketball team accepted his apology...end of story. But no...Jesse and Al have to get out there and pretend that they are OUTRAGED. No they aren't...they are just beating down the door of a white man because he's a white man who used verbage their own race uses.
I had people who said, "Oh, yeah...but no black people think that way." Oh yes they do. I live with one, and there is a writing from Kansas City Star that wrote an article called, "Imus isn't the real bad guy". He said it better than I could...here's the link:
http://www.kansascity.com/159/story/66339.html
Read it...it's really interesting. And I completely agree with what he says...especially about Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
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