Not to be racist or hateful but don't you think firing Don Imus was a bit too much?

if the shoe were on the other foot, a black radio personality calling a white girl basketball team a bunch nappy honkies , would he be persecuted in the same way Mr. Imus was? I don't think they would be unless whites made a big stink about it, like the blacks are with CBS. but Then We would be called bigots because it's against the blacks. the race card is played once again.

Not to be racist or hateful but don't you think firing Don Imus was a bit too much?
In all seriousness, it is way over the top. There are much bigger blatant offensive people that deserves to be fired. He just happens to be the escape goat at the moment. Stupid Jackson and Sharpton don't have a real job so they play the race card on white people constantly. They don't care about Bush and Katrina.
Reply:Yes, it was entirely too far to go with this. Not only does it show the world just how intolerant we are in the US regardless of our own Free Speech laws, but it gives the statement validity of a sort.





Great Gracious Goddess! I can't count the number of times I've been called a 'cracker' and I've not once called for someone's head. I've just responded by calling them a n****r. Drives the point home hard and fast. I don't care what color skin the person has. What I care about is what's inside. I can sling barbs with the best (worst?) of them, I just don't do it unless provoked. If you provoke me, you best be wearing psychic kevlar because I WILL hurt you.





Incidentally, I have heard the actual remark in it's context. It was a joke. A poor one. An offensive one. But a joke nonetheless. Should he have apologized? YES. Should he have been fired? NO.





Everyone makes mistakes or misspeaks or shows their ugly side from time to time. No one should have to pay for it for the rest of their lives. Not unless they physically harmed another person in the process. How did those words hurt? Maybe they stung, but those women aren't stupid. They could have responded in a more intelligent manner and made him look bad with his own attitude.





All this whole hoo-ha has accomplished is to slightly annoy many white people who want to know *why* it is acceptable for a black man to refer to me as a "cracker bi*atch ho" but a white man can't say the same about a black woman without bringing the wrath of Al Sharpton upon him. Both are unacceptable, but both are forgiven in my eyes because I KNOW I'm NOT a "cracker bi*atch ho".





What, exactly, did Imus do? Crack a very tasteless joke? Who the hell hasn't done that at least once in their lives? (And if you say "not me" you're a dirty liar.) We all screw up once in a while. We're all human, after all.





~Morg~


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Reply:I think he said it because this is something he is use to saying, it slipped and now he is in the hot seat for it. The man is on the radio trying to be funny and played himself. He ought to be ashamed of his self with his old self. People just dont get it. Yo cant not be in a field and be saying things like that, He got to comfortable and thats what happens when retards dont think.
Reply:Yep , it is too harsh for the small comment
Reply:He was talking about the whole team... which includes white women... I do think it was a bit much for him to be fired, but really you all need to get over it
Reply:A) with advertisers pulling out, who's going to pay for the show?





B) it's not like he's a plumber. he gets paid a lot of money. and with that, there is a responsibility, that he failed.





C) the "freedom of speech" thing i find stupid. you are welcome to say anything you want. you may not say it in my house. nor should you expect to get paid to say anything you want.





i can understand slipping into something he learned as a kid. but the language he used was not around when he was a kid. when and where did he learn it? how often does he use it when not on the air? it certainly was a slip - but one that seems to me to not be out of character to his off-air personality. but that's just speculation.





in addition, his complaint "i shouldn't be deprived of my profession" doesn't move me. again, it goes to the money. he's been paid more than you and i and 30 others put together. for that kind of money, you don't get extra chances. if he wants a job, i hear that there is a shortage of farm labor this year. that would be a good example to anyone else tempted to be so stupid.
Reply:It was not too much. If he was in a traditional workplace and he called women hos, he would be terminated, I do not see this as any different.
Reply:Probably not, because I don't think anyone would care.





I'm black. I say that because I've figured out that the race you are affects how you can answer a question in this section. Sad.





What Imus did was WRONG. Face it white folk. Should he have been FIRED? No. Some other punishment might have been good. I feel sorry for the old man. he wasn't thinking. He should have thought that some non racists would be listening to his statement. He was trying to be funny. And wasnt.
Reply:Just as he had the freedom to express himself, his bosses' had the freedom to fire him. A job is a privilage, not a right.
Reply:I think if white people expressed their outrage when things like that occurred, then it probably would get more attention. But, instead, they seem to be quiet and silently stew in being pissed off until something like the whole Imus thing happens. Then all of a sudden the world is unfair and everyone is against white people.


Black people do not control the amount of media coverage something gets. Personally, I'm tired of hearing about it myself. I'm tired of seeing Don Imus' crazy looking as$ everytime I turn on the news. And, anytime Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson comes on the screen, I change the channel. We could speculate all day long on what would have happen if the situation was flipped. But again... blacks do not control media coverage.
Reply:i agree.
Reply:I agree firing him was a bit too much. He apologized
Reply:No. Him and all of his cracker friends deserved that and worse.
Reply:You're not racist..your just a rational human being.
Reply:Black people did not fire Don Imus. It's his fault. Why would you try to put the blame on anyone else?


And if you all are so tired of people playing the race card, stop slipping it into their decks, understand?
Reply:No. He shouldn't have said what he said. Personally I wasn't offended but other people were. We are living in a racially oppressed society, he should know better.
Reply:We had this diccussion at work yesterday, I feel that Imus showed very poor taste in his figure of speech, and if the network found it offencive, he is working for them he should be held responsible for what he said, but he as an American has freedom of speech? or maybe not. I dont like what he said ,I dont agree with what he said but I feel that he has the right to his opinion, and I have the right to turn the channel if I dont like what I here.
Reply:I think it was right because black people went thru a lot during slavery and that was not fair,,,,getting treated like that because of your skin color?Like you can help that,,,is not like they chose to be black,,,,,So I think that was not right ,,,,Now they have come a long way to be treated equal and then some white guy comes and says something like that,,,,,,it was not right.Because if it was the other way around yes,it would of probably even been worse.So yes,I think it was right,,he would of made a big deal if someone would of said something like that about him or his shows,,,,
Reply:they should of been fired him and then some
Reply:It was, because I doubt he was racist. I know he had to be like "Damn, I was just joking!" in his mind, like if Cedric the entertainer, like if he said something like "They were so pale" to a White girl basket ball team, people would laugh and brush it off. I get where people are coming from with this, because it's not like the guy goes around saying he hates Black people. It's not like he's actually racist. And people who are racist are making it seem like he is by blaming all Black people for the controversy, when if it were me, I'd laugh with him. I have White friends, hear White people around my way joke with Black people, and they get along. They know it's just joking.
Reply:suggest you do some research on the "HOT 97 Tsunami Song".





A song on a predominantly black radio station ridiculing the predominantly asian victims of the 2004 Tsunami. People were suspended, even fired, for the song.





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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hot_97#tsun...



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