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Originally Posted by shinerbock
My personal belief is that there isn't much reason for black people to be outraged. Of course, this is my personal belief and I'm not black so I have no idea what sparks true emotion and what doesn't.
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You don't have to be black to know what sparks true emotion or to be compassionate over racial issues. Blacks are people (
) so we have individual opinions on what's offensive. The only time I dismiss my individual opinion for a racial group-centered one is when I see the incident as indicative of a larger climate. I don't see that here at all.
No one call tell people what to be outraged about. So I won't tell black people, women, or whomever that they shouldn't offended as long as they don't tell me I SHOULD be offended.
I find Imus' comment unnecessarily stupid but I don't believe he or his comment are racist. He feels humiliated and has apologized. A lesson has been learned. People need a metric of offense so that everything that raises an eyebrow doesn't get the treatment of more serious things. Voicing a complaint about something like this should result in an on aire apology for the first offense (since folks aren't counting all the controversial comments he's made for years).
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