Imus Still in Hot Water

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I don't follow Don Imus' show and despite how cynical he may be at times, what he stated in regards to these young, college-educated African American women was completely out of line and proves what some people still think about the African American race.

I am tired of people slipping at the tongue with these extremely racist comments, and a simple apology and comments such as, "I have tons of black friends," is all we get. Let's look at the trend here, it wasn't too long ago that we were discussing Michael Richards' outburst. What upsets me most is that these people are not just using the n-word; they are going all out and putting us back into slavery. "Nappy-headed hos," tatoo-just hardcore hos." Forget that, let's read their entire dialogue:

IMUS: That’s some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos and—

McGUIRK: Some hard-core hos.

IMUS: That’s some nappy-headed hos there. I’m gonna tell you that now, man, that’s some—woo. And the girls from Tennessee, they all look cute, you know, so, like—kinda like—I don’t know.

McGUIRK: A Spike Lee thing.

IMUS: Yeah.

McGUIRK: The Jigaboos vs. the Wannabes—that movie that he had.

I am steaming just reading this again.


To raise another point, I watched a segment on CNN this past Saturday regarding this incident. The news anchor kept asking the President of the National Association of Black Journalist why were African Americans so offended by Imus' comment when rap artists say things like this in their music consistently with no consequence. Though she was playing devil's advocate, I think she raised a very good point. We need to stop supporting these hip hop artists that degrade African Americans. I know a lot of times we're simply listening to the beat (that's me), but at the end of the day, people [of other ethnicities] can say, "if they can talk about themselves like that, why can't I"?

I'm just tired.