The New York Times is reporting, that the young women athletes who were the targets of what Don Imus said were just joking remarks on his nationally syndicated radio show last week said today that they were “highly angered” and “deeply saddened” by his words.
At a news conference at Rutgers University’s Piscataway campus, the 10 members of the Scarlett Knights said they had agreed to meet privately with Mr. Imus, who is suspended from his show for two weeks beginning next Monday. He has said he wanted to personally apologize for his comments on the air that the women described today as disparaging and hurtful.
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I bet that Imus suppports COE to FSU too. I want him fired and publicly scorned. What a racist. The same should happen to Rep. Lynne and the entire FSU leadership, TK and all of them. They are worse than Imus, in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteThose sisters should tell imus to go to hell! fuck him!
ReplyDeleteFuck Representative Lynne! Fuck TK Wetherell! Fuck Imus! Go FAMU College of Engineering. Let's close down FSU and stuff their AAU ambitions up their tight white asses.
ReplyDeleteIf I were one of the young ladies, I wouldn't meet with him. What ever for?? So that he can apologize for how he REALLY feels, and because there's a storm of protest and that he's been suspended from his own radio show?? What good is that, the apology, I mean? If someone has to call attention to your sorry arse for insulting someone and you offer an "apology" becuase, essentially, you're thingking $$, but nothing else, what's the point of the apology. It doesn't change the way the man feels, and a forced apology is no good at all. If my daughter was one of these women, I'd just as soon tell her to ignore him and go on about her business. So what is his apology suppose to do? Make them feel better that he has now "apologized"? Give me a break.
ReplyDeleteSo now, all of a sudden Imus is better for the apology??? I simply don't get it. So the young ladies are better for the apology??? So we're all better for the apology of Don Imus?? What he'll do next is simply choose his words a bit more carefully the next time, but spew another rather scathing term or phrase, though silently perhaps, and out of earshot of the microphone, like "Kramer." Apology?? Yeah, right.
ReplyDeletePeople are way too hypersensitive these days. People are jerks. So what?
ReplyDeleteImus is an equal opportunity offender. The white man is trying to talk a little hip/hop and the stuff hits the fan.
Flip the channel to hip/hop and they say much worse. Where is Jessie and Al complaining about THAT culture that degrades women, and glorifies violence?
you have to admit, they ARE a little nappy headed.
ReplyDeleteI agree with 5:11 p.m.
ReplyDeleteNot that we are hypersensitive but that there is a double standard. We should be JUST as outraged over our own who use such deplorable language but what do we do... continue to purchase the music, by their clothing, support movies and tv show that they star in and attend their concerts (which by the way features your sisters and brothers performing deplorable dance and sexual acts).
How many of use haven't said something bad about our own or our true "white" friends?
He has a decent track record for doing and being a good person - for ALL people. He should and must change. If he doesn't then hang him out to dry.
This isn't about whether or not he's a "good person." What he said was unacceptable. Point blank. We shouldn't tolerate it from him or anyone else. It's equally detrimental to young black women (no matter WHO says it).
ReplyDeleteWhat's sad is that for every ignor-IMUS that has the testicular fortitude to say this sort of thing in a public arena, there are ten more that mumble this mess under their breaths, in their car, in the boardroom, etc.
I've never seen a black man call a black woman a "nappy headed hoe" or a "jiggaboo", both racially charged names. The insinuation that black folks should somehow end up the focal point of criticism is only white folks' attempt to project the blame onto the victims. They successfully managed to get the heat off of Michael Richardson by turning the attention to the "N" word and how black folks use it, even though the extent of Richardson's comments went far beyond the "N" word (i.e. 50 years ago you'd be hanging from a tree with a fork up your ass). Now, they're trying the same sh*t with this Don Imus incident. And sadly, many dumb ass black people will fall into that trap and end up chastizing the music industry.
ReplyDelete5:32, many racists give charitably to minority groups. Their giving doesn't exonerate them from being racist.
ReplyDelete5:32---are you crazy?? What does having a "good tract record" mean, for God's sake? Are we simply to ignore this mess because the man has $$ and every so often decides to throw it to a charity organization? Are you this clueless? Hypersensitive? No, dear, I don't anyone's being hypersensitive. What I do think, however, is that you simply don't understand the power of words and what the long-term effects of them are. Many years ago, there was a commercial on television of a little girl sitting in a chair with her back to the camera and in the background--out of view--was her father, hurling all kinds of insults and terrible names at this child. He called her every name but child of God. When the little girl turned around and faced the camera, she had a single tear rolling down her face, and her great big eyes told a story of sorrow. The words that came on the screen said it all: "Words hurt like a fist." Don Imus' words, while you may consider them "insensitive," I dare say that they are words that the young ladies will forever hear, even though they do not belong to them, they were directed at them. We must be careful what we call each other and what others call us.
ReplyDeletelighten up niggas, niggas call niggas niggas all day long, eben wen dey wid der hos an bitches!
ReplyDeletelighten up niggas, niggas call niggas niggas all day long, eben wen dey wid der hos an bitches!
ReplyDeleteI wish I could be a fly on the wall to watch his facial expressions and body language as he has to sit and look at these ladies in the face.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
Fuck Representative Lynne! Fuck TK Wetherell! Fuck Imus! Go FAMU College of Engineering. Let's close down FSU and stuff their AAU ambitions up their tight white asses.
4/10/2007 4:11 PM
I feel your passion!
He has a decent track record for doing and being a good person - for ALL people. He should and must change. If he doesn't then hang him out to dry.
ReplyDeleteHe actually has an excellent track record. I listen to the show, and in fact I have become quite impressed with his sense of no holds bar fairness. I agree he was just a old white man trying to sound like a hip brotha but unfortunately stuck his foot in his mouth. Period.
His show follows the line of Rus Par, Tom Joyner, etc. If you don't watch it you really would not understand.
Take a look at how he stood up to real racist during his unflinching support of Harold Ford. He kept that story on the front pages and he called a spade a spade.
I'm down with the Africentric stuff but sometimes "people" say dumb stuff. If you watch his show you would understand that he is an extraordinary asset to this country's political discourse. And he very often come to the aid and defense of African Americans. In fact he was one of the first to clam that Al Sharpton was whopping asses during the Presidential debate. This man has raised more than $100M dollars for various causes including African American with cancer. He is not like that fool O'Reily on FOX. He stood up for the Hurricane Katrina Victims and he called the spade a spade.
A old white man trying to sound like a hip brotha, however he put his foot in his mouth and made a cheep joke. He was being funny trying to be cool.
Off course he should pay for it. And don't be surprised if the Basketball team excepts his apology and actually become fans. He is really just that type of guy.
Doesn't mean that I like defending white people, I don't This guy is a fool but he has a good heart.
PS It's rather fucked up that we can write, buy, sing, and dance to the same shit.
Well if Tim Hardaway can be fired for just saying he doesn't like homosexuals, why in the living hell didn't Imus dumb ass get fired for his racist and ignorant ass remarks.
ReplyDeleteI wish Imus would have said
ReplyDelete"F#*(@ YOU! It was a joke"
And moved on with his life without apologies.
All this groveling to the race baiters is not constructive.
And ditto for Tim Hardaway... except he wasn't joking....but the proper response would have been "F*** YOU I stand by what I said." No apologies.
ReplyDeleteDitto for Kramer... "F**** YOU I was pissed off at the hecklers and that was the most hurtful thing I could think of."
Truth is always best. All these posers that pretend like they are all tolerant of different people are the real problem.
I WISH that just ONE of these people caught in a media induced firestorm would just say "F*** YOU" I ain't apologizing to no one."
6:02 AM said,
ReplyDelete"A old white man trying to sound like a hip brotha, however he put his foot in his mouth and made a cheep joke. He was being funny trying to be cool."
"PS It's rather fucked up that we can write, buy, sing, and dance to the same shit."
You have to be both white and deaf to post these uninformed remarks. First off, Imus called the women "nappy head hoes" and "jigaboos". What "hip-hop" brotha ever called a black woman a nappy head hoe or jigaboo? What rap songs mention nappy head hoes and jigaboos? Second,how is calling someone a racially derogatory name [not a sexist name as the media wants to classify it] a joke? 6:02 AM, you sound like an apologist for white racism, espeically with your description of a "hip-hop brotha". A black person would never use that term to describe a black man. You gotta be white.
12:43--you think that Don Imus gives a jack about "facing" these young ladies? And what will his facial expression mean? say? tell? Nothing. That outward behavior has nothing to do with what's in the man's heart, and in his heart, he really and truly believes what he called them. Surely you don't believe that the man is sorry for what he said, do you? He's not sorry, he's just sorry that his hateful words were caught by the microphone.
ReplyDeletehe never called anyone a jigaboo.
ReplyDeleteget your story straight you nappy headed ho
^^^^^^
ReplyDeleteIf you listen to the broadcast, you'll see that McGuire goaded Imus into talking about the jiggaboo/wannabe storyline from Spike Lee's "School Daze", to which Imus responded, "I guess they'd [Rutgers women basketball team] be the jiggaboos.
I don't blame Imus, them hoes do look rough...
ReplyDeleteAnd i'm tired of seeing Sharpton and Jackson playing the race card when convienent.. Either they need to run for some type political office or go somewhere and lay down and shut the f@@k up!!!