Posted on 04/12/2007 7:16:42 AM PDT by Reaganesque
The best thing that has come out of all this Imus mess, is that he finally realizes what Harold Ford Jr. really is. A user, someone that is about saving his own hide.
The singer should shut up and sing. No one asked them to do anything else. Their FANS took care of business.
Imus is a ‘shock jock’. His act is full of vinegar and has insulted all stripes. His fans ‘bought’ his act. Outside forces made the determination.
Let the market decide.
Think Hillary. (who knows what's said/done behind closed doors--this is an "opportunity" to be sure--too good of an opportunity to let get by. Imus has made no bones about his disdain for HRC...it would in all likelihood intensify in the months ahead leading up to the election in Nov. 08...AS and JJ are definitely in her camp...on her team...somebody is smelling an opportunity here and will do all they can to maximize gain from potentially silencing Imus.) ... but, then I could be totally off base...probably am...just IMHO.
When will Sharpton apologize to Steven Pagonnes who he ruined durint the twanna Brawley HOAX.
I’ve wondered the same. I never knew it. I’m from Jackson, Mississippi, and I’ve heard the term most of my life, but I”ve never associated it with race. I must be ignorant. We have a daughter whose hair is so curly that she can’t brush it. After a few days of not brushing, we call it “nappy.” I guess we will have to change our description. I can say that no one would look at her and call her a “ho” though. Dork, yes. Ho, no.
The same daughter rode the bus to school last year, and she had a lot of trouble with one student on the bus. She would skip school and/or miss the bus on purpose because of the student. The girl would berate our daughter because she has/had long VERY curly hair that could only be the result of having black genetics. (the girl on the bus was black.) She threatened to cut our daughter’s hair one day. There was another student in our daughter’s class who also made a big deal about our daughter’s kinky hair. She would also say things about our genetics. It was not said in a nice way either. Our daughter is a nervous dork, and she took it all in stride. But the manner in which these girls spoke to her did eat at her.
I guess my whole point is that nappy-hair is assumed by black people to refer to black people. Never mind that other races have people with nappy-hair, too.
pass the popcorn plz
Is there anything more pathetic than a Old White Man trying to act black??
Pray for W and Our Troops
I would like to see a boycott of all sponsors of Al Sharptons radio show.
I hear it was the pressure from people that work at MSNBC, the question I have if they taking votes when is Keith going to be let go.
I would have called Shartons fat a$$ out to his face.
“When are you going to apologize, Al?”
Imus is no dummy, he knows this is nothing less than a power trip for the race pimps.
To bad MSNBC doesn’t have the stones to call it like it is.
As much as I hate this type of PC censorship, it couldn’t have happened to a bigger jerk! Hoisted on his own Petard!
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I’m in total agreement with you concerning the total inappropriateness of Imus’ remarks. I have never been in Imus’ audience, because I can’t take him seriously enough to spend the time. But it does concern me when people say they have a right to censor the political content of what’s on the airwaves. I don’t recall anyone saying that the Dixie Chicks didn’t have a right to free speech.
Thanks. I guess the pendulum really has swung when a white guy is telling a large section of the “Black Community” to listen to some of the things MLK had to say.
Two nights ago I was watching Hannity and Colmes. I watched a black man say that when it comes to hip hop, that it is something “they need to address within their own community”.
That was basically saying that white people cannot say anything about what black people say. But then, wasn’t he a black man complaining about something a white man said? I guess some of these folks really aren’t listening to what they themselves are saying.
that’s good!
i like that.
al sharpton needs to apologize for his role in the twana brawley nightmare.
al destroyed a man’s life and al’s on the streets.
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