from their organizations - from the RainbowPush Coalition. They have no credibility. Jackson has made anti-semetic remarks - should he be allowed to be involved in any organization? Al Sharpton shouldn't be able to have a talk show - he is no different from Imus. Both of them should be fired. They should be fired from any position he currently is in according to the PC's logic. Why do you defend one "racist" and call for the ouster of another? I guess you are selective in the application of your moral judgements.
Imus is a DJ/morning radio shock jock. Ed Bradley was a journalist. Big difference. If Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson made a sniping comment about nappy-headed hos that would be something entirely different from Dave Chapelle or Chris Rock or, apparently, Don Imus saying it.
Do you know Jackson and the coalitition have brought significant attention and resources to poor Whites. He has his flaws, but he is an important voice for many across race/ethnicity lines, and to compare him to guy just out there spewing racist, misgynist, bigoted comments for good ratings makes zero sense.
Imus contributed money to charitable causes. Still, that was not taken into consideration because of his remarks. Jackson make anti-semetic remarks. Why should he get credit for the good he has done when Imus does not? Why can't you compare the two? Isn't the whole point of the PC world to judge people on their words? That nothing else matters?
Funny how it has been forgotten that that Muthr Fukr Jesse Jackson once called New York "Hymietown!" because of all of the Jews that live there. I'm white...and it's crap like this with Jackson and Sharpton that KEEP racism alive and well. Seriously...we all have some racism in us...it's natural. And everything is going smooth sailing..then someone makes a nutty comment that should just roll off. But here comes Sharpton and Jackson screaming racism and then I get all bent and pissed. My personal racism gets hightened, not over a comment like Imus...but the actions of some black "so-called" leaders!!!
Imus was wrong, really wrong but this is a bit much...really. Where was the outcry when Rome was calling WNBA players horses? Imus is an old dude, when he dies his lagacy whether good or bad is going to be tainted by how he made one mistake and was vilified for it. Rarely am I on this side of the argument (and you know this) but in all fairness, he is an old dude that tried to be hip and made a mistake, even though I think he should have been punished, this is way over the top. What if he had called the Duke accuser a nappy headed ho? I would have been inclined to agree. My .02
I have always believed we African Americans would be so much better off without these loud-mouthed quacks called Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
I don't know about anti-semitic remarks but Jesse Jackson said, "The history of white men and black women – the special fantasies and realities of exploitation – goes back to the nation’s beginning and the arrival of slaves from Africa." as recently as the Duke Lacrosse case. His protoge Al Sharpton has a history far, far worse than Imus, and took Tawana Brawley to meet with a number of black youths that had raped a Central Park jogger and left her for dead, then proceeded to call the victim a w**** and start a chant that her boyfriend did it. Maybe Imus isn't quite at that level, eh?
I don't believe that story's true. Please post a link. If it is true it wll change my opinion of Al Sharpton enormously (which is not perfect since I lived in NYC during the original Tawana Brawley incident) but I sincerely doubt it is. I'd really appreciate a link.
It wasn't just one mistake. In 2000, the program's treatment of African-Americans also drew the ire of Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page. Appearing on the show, Page asked Imus to pledge to "cease all simian references [to] black athletes" and "references to noncriminal blacks as thugs, pimps, muggers, and Colt 45 drinkers." Imus responded, "I promise to do that." Page went on to ask that Imus put "an end to Amos 'n Andy cuts, comparison of New York City to Mogadishu, and all parodies of black voices," at which point Imus said, "I think Bernard should be doing this." As co-host Brook Gladstone noted on the August 18, 2001, edition of National Public Radio's On the Media, Imus' pledge "was inevitably and immediately broken." http://mediamatters.org/items/200703070009?src=item200703070009 So Imus promised to cut this sh_t out before and of course broke that pledge and nobody held him responsible. You know, I actually have less of a problem with Imus, than I do with the politicians and journalists that have been going on his show for all these years. Their willingness to be associated with him, and even befriend him, gives respectablity to the bs he spewed. And then some of them come out and say they liked going on Imus because this is how they talk among themselves. That is disturbing. My friends and I don't joke about darkies and fags and hooknosed jews in public or private. I find it disturbing that respectable journalists say they do. And at the least condone it by their silence while on Imus' show.
This stuff does not keep racism alive and well. It doesn't need Sharpton or Jackson to stay alive. I'm not in agreement with how they are handling the situation, as I posted in the other thread. But to claim that they are the reason that racism is kept alive, is ignorant, and blaming the victims of racism. If you have personal racism against blacks, then that is an issue aside from Jackson and Sharpton.
Wow. I completely agree. Thank you. Do you know that they were referencing the movie School Daze with all the nappy head / jigaboo talk also? That makes a big difference to me in all of this too.
Worst of all, this is censorship. You have a group of people who don't listen to his show or see value in it denying it to people who want to listen to it. This is what disturbs me. This isn't just a sportsplayer who made an offensive remark - it's a media person who states an opinion that millions listen to. It's a dangerous precedent to silence those we find offensive. Imus joins a quickly growing list. Bill Maher was a pretty significant one when his show was cancelled because he said something politically incorrect. But if we become intolerant of other's opinions, we are encouragin intolerance, fighting against keeping an open mind - and in a sense supporting the very kind of thinking that leads to racism. We're creating a country of rigid thinking and speech - and that's contrary to the very ideals of this country.
