Associated Press – April 14, 2007:
Rutgers women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer said Friday the team had accepted radio host Don Imus’ apology. She said he deserves a chance to move on but hopes the furor his racist and sexist insult caused will be a catalyst for change.
“We, the Rutgers University Scarlet Knight basketball team, accept — accept — Mr. Imus’ apology, and we are in the process of forgiving,” Stringer read from a team statement a day after the women met personally with Imus and his wife.
“We still find his statements to be unacceptable, and this is an experience that we will never forget,” she said.
“Can’t we all just get along?”
OK, guys, let me get this started -
The Rutgers players are a bunch of racists, like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson! They should have refused his apology and issued a statement indicating that there was nothing wrong with what Imus said. Because rap music singers refer to women as “ho’s,” the Rutgers players should have loudly announced that everyone should follow their example and refer to all black women, including themselves, as “ho’s.”
All in all, it seems to me like the Rutgers team won. They got to look all righteous, and they got him fired (okay, they weren’t trying to get him fired, but if they’d said “Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me,” people might have just glossed over that horrible, racist, comment about their hair styles).
Sigh. To go along with people becoming wimps, they’ve also lost their sense of perspective.
Don Imus is going to make a billion dollars out of this mess.Blacks have been so marginalized in this country they will grab anything and call it a win.We have institutionalized racism in our country by using SAT scores and class rank as the only indicators of success.You invite people of other races to a University not to help them but to educate the white kids already there.What went on this week was OJ all over again.
#3 – Except Imus didn’t kill anybody
If someone called my wife, mother, girlfriend, sister a whore, I’d fire them personally, after I kicked the shit out of them. They didnt get big mouth fired, he done got hisself fired.
I nominate this story to be the biggest waste of time in American media history.
#6 No, the Anna Nicole Smith fiasco was worse.
7. “No, the Anna Nicole Smith fiasco was worse.”
What do you mean “was“?! We’re still fricken hearing about Marilyn Monroe’s death! Your children’s children will be sick of hearing about Anna Nicole’s death.
Sharptons an enigma.
Who voted him into office to represent so called black people.
Why is this country so divided on color. People are people we are all American.
Oh big deal sharpton get off your soap box and get it. Let the man earn an honest living.
This is a financial decision. You can’t put him on the air without sponsors. I doubt blacks contributed much to his demographics, but why should a sponsor go out on a limb for his silly old egotistical ass. You’re rolling in bucks Imus, go write a book.
The Average person goes thru life and takes the path of least resistance.
They worry about paying bill, staying healhy and enjoying thier free time. If they are lucky they get a vaction every year.
No, No, No, Not Sharpton. Hes not the average. He lives his life on the edge looking for trouble. Suddenly its Sharpton to the rescue, like a bad lawyer chasing an ambulance,
Sharptons on his soap box complaining how the white man hurt him and his people. And how The white man should be punished for life with disregard to freedom of speech.
Oh geese give me a break.
Over the year I listened to what he had to say and most of the time the information was not correct as in the case of Tawana Brawley.
Most of the time the words that came out of his mouth where about his hate for other people. Especially Jews.
If anyone is predjudice its him. I
Over the years I learned how he cheated so many of his own people.
Andbecause he is a rev. he skirts around the tax laws as well.
He reminds me of growing up the kid in class that got a charge out of instigating an argument amongst to people while he sat back and chuckled think about what he did.
If the country is to be divided by Black, White, yellow, brown, red and green. Which I hope will never be the case, then each race should vote for who they want to represent then.
As far as I understand Rutgers or the So Called Black people never asked sharpton to represent them.
Rutgers is a top university, they don’t need Sharpton stickin his head in thier business. All they wanted was an apology not a blood donation.
Imus goofed, plain and simple, he pulled the old shock jock trick and it back fired.
So what
was accomplished, Sharpton took away a mans livelyhood because the man made an offense comment that could have been bleeped by the company that fired him.
He took away the money that imus was donating to help children of all colors.
What happened to freedom of speech.
If you don’t like what the person says on the radio show then don’t listen.
So way to go sharpton you widened a gap between races rather than bring people together.
Actually, if that pic is of a Rutgers player, she doesn’t look like a ho to me. Just a kid having a fine time playing basketball, and I ain’t saying a thing about her hair, or about how ridiculous my then girlfriend looked a few decades back when she had her fine, blonde Dutch hair tomented and frizzed out into a “natural.” But I gotta say, between the two, if you had to pick which one looked like a nappy-headed ho, it was definitely my girlfriend.
“His career took flight in the 1970s and with a cocaine- and vodka-fueled outrageous humor. After sobering up, he settled into a mix of highbrow talk about politics and culture, with locker room humor sprinkled in.”
I think a bad idea of what entertainment is, has run its course. The public defamation of an innocent group, should be dealt with seriously. Freedom of speech doesn’t apply to slander.
You might say if you don’t like it don’t listen, but there are too many gullible half-wits out there who will believe anything if it’s repeated a few times. Having shows like that is not compatible to achieving a peaceful society. Freedom has never meant freedom to harm as you please.
#11. “Oh geese give me a break.”
are there geese deviling you, Richard? I recommend some sort of repellent.
“Imus goofed, plain and simple,”
BS. he called gifted college athletes whores. that’s not a goof. He should have been fired that same day. Just because Al Sharpton is an a-hole does not make what Imus did excusable.
And again, this is NOT about freedom of speech. the FCC did not get Imus in trouble, his own employer (who owns the podium) took action, as is their right. If he was doing a self-published podcast, he could just keep on trucking. So no one has silenced Don Imus.
I like that the Rutgers women took the high road. Good for them…they seem like a decent bunch.
Hmmm, I think Imus should apologize at the same time that Al Sharpton apologizes for his comments about the Duke Lacrosse players….
While Imus’s comment was not warranted, it is nothing compared to what the liberal media releases. Just look at MTV or BET. The dehumanizing aspects of the lyrics and content of the shows that they force down our throats are NOTHING compared to what Imus said. I thought that women were supposed to be equals in todays society, but instead, they are made out to be little more than objects.
Al Sharpton is above and by far more racist than anybody else today. I have never heard of him stick up for any minority other than African Americans. People like him are ultimately what keeps racism alive today.
Kudos to the Rutger’s basketball team for taking the time to show that there might still be hope for equality.
Don Ho died today. I wonder if he was from nappy headed ho descent?
I didn’t take Imus’ comments to be racist. In fact, I’ve heard those terms used for blacks and whites. I figure the real racists are those who viewed his comments in a racial fashion.
#17… you made my day.
Imus is boring.