Imus Still in Hot Water

[shinerbock]

I think it was rude. I think he made a cruel comment on how the girls looked. I think he implied they were thuggish, but I don't think that made his comment racist.

I just think if its a situation where people like me and you sit down and analyze and debate whether its racist, the news certainly shouldn't refer to it as such.

[UGAalum94]

But you know there are some people who think that "thug" has racial connotation.

I don't. I just think of a brutish tough guy, maybe with a mafia implication, but I had a conversation at lunch with some people about it, believe it or not, who think thug suggests something racial, if for example, you said of a teenage dressed in a rough way, that he looked like a thug.

I think the Imus comment is racist, but that he may not be. It probably didn't occur to him how bad it was going to seem.

[shinerbock]

It may be racist, but if its borderline, I don't like the media asserting it as though its a known fact.

[Rudey]

I've got hos in different area codes. Maybe I've been listening to too much Nappy Roots. Maybe it's the song Nappy Heads.

This is a waste of political capital. You would think the slaughters of people in Darfur would get more protests than Imus - a guy that most black people don't even listen to anyway.

-Rudey

[UGAalum94]

which kind of takes us back to many of the points in the Disney thread, except that everyone will be expected to punish Imus and his station for his comment whereas in the other instance. . .