Imus Still in Hot Water

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Exquisite5

The Spike Lee/Wannabee/Jiggaboo commentary between Imus and the producer which followed the "hard core hoes [and] nappy headed hoes" comments essentially underscored that the duo's previous statements that the Tennessee team (which had more white women) were pretty and dainty, while the Rutgers team (predominately black) were unattractive, "hard core," Jiggaboos.

That assertion is a load of complete crap. Absolutely ridiculous. Tennessee had 3 white girls on their 11 woman roster....one of which started. The others barely played. Rutgers has two white girls on their 10 woman roster.......one of which also started.

http://utladyvols.cstv.com/sports/w-...askbl-mtt.html
http://scarletknights.com/basketball...oster-alph.asp

Don't turn this into some "He said good things about Tennesse because they were mainly white" bullshit.

[Exquisite5]

Wasn't turning it into that at all. Tennessee won the game after all- they, as well as Rutgers in my opinion (just for getting there), deserved to have good things said about them, be they white or black.

Now as the post immediately prior to your post demonstrates, colorism was at play.

None of the women deserved to be called hoes; nappy, hard-core or otherwise (unless of course they knew something about these ladies' prostitution habits that I don't). That is actually my bigger issue with all of this. I honestly, don't believe Imus even truly knew what "nappy-headed" meant- I think he heard it somewhere (maybe on BET which I've boycotted for years) and like a 3 yr old kid repeated it. Because why would anyone with the hair Imus has knowingly and purposefully talk about another's?

Originally Posted by macallan25

That assertion is a load of complete crap. Absolutely ridiculous. Tennessee had 3 white girls on their 11 woman roster....one of which started. The others barely played. Rutgers has two white girls on their 10 woman roster.......one of which also started.

http://utladyvols.cstv.com/sports/w-...askbl-mtt.html
http://scarletknights.com/basketball...oster-alph.asp

Don't turn this into some "He said good things about Tennesse because they were mainly white" bullshit.