Imus Still in Hot Water

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by Conskeeted7

These issues are not comparable at all. I still cannot believe that white people cannot understand why the connotation when they use 'racial slang' is different than when used by people of the same race. Since apparently most white people are not willing to acknowledge that difference, evidenced by their continued attempts at incorporating it into their dialogues, the best solution for white people is to just leave that language alone. This is especially true since there's such a negative outcry when it's used. Why keep trying? Why worry about it? Why all of a sudden is white America so concerned with the language that blacks use toward each other? I'm not buying the double standard crap. White people don't use that kind of language for any positive reason. Who are we really kidding here?

Did you not read the rest of my post?

I don't support whites using the language, nor do I support cries of "double standard" - I do, however, think your 'best solution' is actively detrimental to the efforts of intelligent people to actually help with racial inequality in this country.

However, I also buy DSTChaos's point re: average intelligence . . . so there's that, I guess.

[Tom Earp]

Jason Whitlock, a Black writer for the Kansas City Star brought a very good point about this!

If Imus is brought to task by Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, then why are they not made to apologize to the members of the Duke Lacross team that they made a bit to do about?

They can raise all kinds of stink but it never rubs off on them as they are a couole of pious people!

So, where is their apology to the young me of Duke?

[macallan25]

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/statica...icle55179.html

The Imus Lynch Party: Patrick J. Buchanan

Posted: April 13, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

"In the end, it was not about Imus. It was about us.

Are we really a better country because, after he was publicly whipped for 10 days as the worst kind of racist, with whom no decent person could associate, he was thrown off the air?

Cards on the table.

This writer works for MSNBC, has been on the Imus show scores of times, watches Imus every morning, and likes the show, the music and the guys: the I-Man, Bernie, Charles and Tom Bowman.

And Imus is among the best interviewers in our business. Not only does he read and follow the news closely, he listens and probes as well as any interviewer in America. Because he is a comic, people mistake how good a questioner he is.

(Column continues below).........

[Conskeeted7]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

Did you not read the rest of my post?

I don't support whites using the language, nor do I support cries of "double standard" - I do, however, think your 'best solution' is actively detrimental to the efforts of intelligent people to actually help with racial inequality in this country.

However, I also buy DSTChaos's point re: average intelligence . . . so there's that, I guess.

To be honest, I only skimmed your post...LOL...but I will go back and reread

I don't think it's helpful to ignore the problem this type of language causes or what it represents when used by any race. However, just because that problem is not yet solved does not mean it's acceptable for White people to use it until we get it together on our end.