Tipsy
Respected Member
This happened about two weeks ago, but it is still something important to talk about. For those of you who haven't heard about it see here. For those of you who don't know who Imus was, he had a radio show called Imus in the Morning that was quite popular... not to mention one that I listened to regularly.
I personally find it terrible that this entire event turned into an uproar. He made a comment about the Rutgers’s girls basketball team that was deemed racist ("nappy-headed hos") and lead to threats by his advertising to pull out (the true customers of radio) so he was fired by CBS. I'm so disgusted by this because it was the kind of thing that someone like Chris Rock would say but because he is black it makes it okay. It amazes me how the special interest groups can have such a double standard. Not to mention they completely ignore the "hip hop culture" when they talk about degrading blacks which is considerably worse than a joke - Imus after all does comedy.
What's even worse is that he got fired for saying something over the radio. True, it would be a terrible business decision to keep him because when advertising pulls out the no more money is made off of him, but the fact that people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson blew this out of proportion so much to make it something covered constantly on the 24 hour news networks for about a week and cost a man his livelihood (though he is a rich white guy who doesn't actually need to work for the rest of his life).
His comments were jokes and it's a terrible thing to call him and his listeners racist or hatemongerer against blacks because it really isn't true. I at least hope it's true because I was a regular listener to his show.
I personally find it terrible that this entire event turned into an uproar. He made a comment about the Rutgers’s girls basketball team that was deemed racist ("nappy-headed hos") and lead to threats by his advertising to pull out (the true customers of radio) so he was fired by CBS. I'm so disgusted by this because it was the kind of thing that someone like Chris Rock would say but because he is black it makes it okay. It amazes me how the special interest groups can have such a double standard. Not to mention they completely ignore the "hip hop culture" when they talk about degrading blacks which is considerably worse than a joke - Imus after all does comedy.
What's even worse is that he got fired for saying something over the radio. True, it would be a terrible business decision to keep him because when advertising pulls out the no more money is made off of him, but the fact that people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson blew this out of proportion so much to make it something covered constantly on the 24 hour news networks for about a week and cost a man his livelihood (though he is a rich white guy who doesn't actually need to work for the rest of his life).
His comments were jokes and it's a terrible thing to call him and his listeners racist or hatemongerer against blacks because it really isn't true. I at least hope it's true because I was a regular listener to his show.
