Originally posted by: Luthien
Yes, I do believe if Imus had a black woman on his crew he would not be in the news right now. You would need two black men to get the same immunity a single black woman gives. Don't ask my how or what or where or when but it just seems to be the way of things ...
Originally posted by: eits
Originally posted by: thehstrybean
Wow...
Wow...just, WOW!!!
Originally posted by: eits
am i the only one who doesn't give a flying dick about this story anymore? i just don't give a shyt. some ugly, old, retarded, wannabe rancher with a mic said something stupid as hell and got punished. al sharpton can lick my left nut and imus can lick my right nut. i just don't care.
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
FYI "nappy" is a demeaning adjective to describe a black person's unstraightened hair. It's just as racist as calling them "big lipped hos" or "wide nose hos".
So my wife is racist when she called her brother nappy-headed?
Damn. I'm gonna have to go have a talk with her.
Exactly. I tell my daughter to brush her nappy head in the morning before school. Obviously, this is our private joke about keeping the black culture down. Sometimes we even sieg heil each other and goose-step around the living room when I say it. :roll:
Apparently you don't know the history of the word, while Imus does. Without a doubt he was referring to the black girls.
Definitions from UD:
one of African desent who has tightly coiled unkept hair; one with locks of hair that is tightly curled that is unwashed and uncombed
Tightly coiled / curled unaltered hair. Coiled hair in its natural state
as found on people of African descent who do not chemically alter their hair texture.
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
FYI "nappy" is a demeaning adjective to describe a black person's unstraightened hair. It's just as racist as calling them "big lipped hos" or "wide nose hos".
So my wife is racist when she called her brother nappy-headed?
Damn. I'm gonna have to go have a talk with her.
Exactly. I tell my daughter to brush her nappy head in the morning before school. Obviously, this is our private joke about keeping the black culture down. Sometimes we even sieg heil each other and goose-step around the living room when I say it. :roll:
Apparently you don't know the history of the word, while Imus does. Without a doubt he was referring to the black girls.
Definitions from UD:
one of African desent who has tightly coiled unkept hair; one with locks of hair that is tightly curled that is unwashed and uncombed
Tightly coiled / curled unaltered hair. Coiled hair in its natural state
as found on people of African descent who do not chemically alter their hair texture.
But you just said, and I quote:
"Words aren't racist."
Originally posted by: eits
am i the only one who doesn't give a flying dick about this story anymore? i just don't give a shyt. some ugly, old, retarded, wannabe rancher with a mic said something stupid as hell and got punished. al sharpton can lick my left nut and imus can lick my right nut. i just don't care.
Originally posted by: RiverDog
Originally posted by: eits
am i the only one who doesn't give a flying dick about this story anymore? i just don't give a shyt. some ugly, old, retarded, wannabe rancher with a mic said something stupid as hell and got punished. al sharpton can lick my left nut and imus can lick my right nut. i just don't care.
While I agree with what you are saying, that mental picture scares me :Q
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: JS80
MTV News
It's a completely different scenario," said Snoop, barking over the phone from a hotel room in L.A. "[Rappers] are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We're talking about ho's that's in the 'hood that ain't doing sh--, that's trying to get a n---a for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain't no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC [the cable network home to Imus] going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them mutha-----as say we in the same league as him.
:laugh:
/me reads 3 sentences, *brain asplodes*
he's right, not in the same league. rappers are 100x worse.
you know full well they aren't singing about a bunch of girls in the "'hood that ain't doing sh--, that's trying to get a n---a for his money."
and while we're at it, lets make racist comments racist for everyone. none of this double standard ******. if you don't like the fvckin word, n---a, then don't say it - EVER.
Words aren't racist. People are racist. A white guy calling black girls "nappy heads" is a racist. Rapping about hos has nothing to do with racism.
I'm amused at how hard you're working to come up with completely illogical explanations as to why these uses of so-called racist terms aren't okay, but those ones are.Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
And they're brother and sister. It's obviously playful. Good ol' boys will make fun of each others' red necks and mullets and there's nothing wrong with that either.
In the other thread, someone said that Imus calls black people gorillas too. How is he not racist?
Originally posted by: hydroponik
This whole thing is blown out of proportion. The rutgers players even wanted to let it go, but idiots like al sharpton is always out trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.
Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Originally posted by: eits
am i the only one who doesn't give a flying dick about this story anymore? i just don't give a shyt. some ugly, old, retarded, wannabe rancher with a mic said something stupid as hell and got punished. al sharpton can lick my left nut and imus can lick my right nut. i just don't care.
:thumbsup:
It's stupid.
People act so shocked when someone says something discriminatory like the world is coming to an end because someone made a racist remark...it's retarded...just drop it and move on with life...
Originally posted by: ABitTooSpicy
Freedom of speech can not have a double standard. Freedom of speech can not be dependent on Race / Color.
If an African American person is allowed to say something, then anyone else should be legally allowed to say it. Why is it that African Americans are allowed to make fun of every other race, but no one can make fun of them. I saw Steve Harvey live once, and he kept ripping on Chinese people (and I laughed my head off)... now on his morning show, he's saying that Imus is not allowed to say "nappy headed h-" but he is...
Come on... this is just bullcrap! I hate double standards of any kind...
Originally posted by: yllus
I'm amused at how hard you're working to come up with completely illogical explanations as to why these uses of so-called racist terms aren't okay, but those ones are.Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
And they're brother and sister. It's obviously playful. Good ol' boys will make fun of each others' red necks and mullets and there's nothing wrong with that either.
In the other thread, someone said that Imus calls black people gorillas too. How is he not racist?
Originally posted by: yllus
I'm amused at how hard you're working to come up with completely illogical explanations as to why these uses of so-called racist terms aren't okay, but those ones are.Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
And they're brother and sister. It's obviously playful. Good ol' boys will make fun of each others' red necks and mullets and there's nothing wrong with that either.
In the other thread, someone said that Imus calls black people gorillas too. How is he not racist?
Originally posted by: FoBoT
Originally posted by: yllus
I'm amused at how hard you're working to come up with completely illogical explanations as to why these uses of so-called racist terms aren't okay, but those ones are.Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
And they're brother and sister. It's obviously playful. Good ol' boys will make fun of each others' red necks and mullets and there's nothing wrong with that either.
In the other thread, someone said that Imus calls black people gorillas too. How is he not racist?
yes, some more rappers need to speak up and splain this to us old white guys
Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Originally posted by: ABitTooSpicy
Freedom of speech can not have a double standard. Freedom of speech can not be dependent on Race / Color.
If an African American person is allowed to say something, then anyone else should be legally allowed to say it. Why is it that African Americans are allowed to make fun of every other race, but no one can make fun of them. I saw Steve Harvey live once, and he kept ripping on Chinese people (and I laughed my head off)... now on his morning show, he's saying that Imus is not allowed to say "nappy headed h-" but he is...
Come on... this is just bullcrap! I hate double standards of any kind...
There's no law against racism, so WTF are you talking about?
Originally posted by: ggnl
"That buck-tooth witch Satan, Hillary Clinton." [?] "I never admitted it when I went down there and got in all that big jam, insulting Bill Clinton and his fat ugly wife, Satan. Did I? Did I ever say I was sorry for that?"
Originally posted by: ggnl
Lifted from Slate
A few more pearls of wisdom from Don Imus:
On blacks:
"William Cohen, the Mandingo deal." (Former Defense Secretary Cohen's wife is African-American.)
"Wasn't in a woodpile, was he?" (Responding to news that former black militant H. Rap Brown, subsequently known as Abdullah Al-Amin, was found hiding in a shed in Alabama after exchanging gunfire with police. Imus is here alluding to the expression "****** in the woodpile.")
"Knuckle-dragging moron." (Description of basketball player Patrick Ewing.)
"We all have 12-inch penises." (After being asked what he has in common with Nat Turner, Malcolm X, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Latrell Sprewell from the New York Knicks, and Al Sharpton.)
"Chest-thumping pimps." (Description of the New York Knicks.)
"A cleaning lady." (Reference to journalist Gwen Ifill, possibly out of pique that she wouldn't appear on his show. "I certainly don't know any black journalists who will," she wrote in the April 10 New York Times. The Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page used to appear, but after he made Imus pledge not to make offensive comments in the future, he was never asked back.)
On Jews:
"I remember when I first had [the Blind Boys of Alabama] on a few years ago, how the Jewish management at whatever, whoever we work for, CBS, or whatever it is, were bitching at me about it. [?] I tried to put it in terms that these money-grubbing bastards could understand."
"Boner-nosed ? beanie-wearing Jewboy." (Description of Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, a frequent guest.)
On women:
"That buck-tooth witch Satan, Hillary Clinton." [?] "I never admitted it when I went down there and got in all that big jam, insulting Bill Clinton and his fat ugly wife, Satan. Did I? Did I ever say I was sorry for that?"
On Native Americans:
"The guy from F-Troop, Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell." (This is a reference to the zany Indian characters on the 1960s TV sitcom F-Troop. They had names like "Roaring Chicken," "Crazy Cat," and "Chief Wild Eagle.")
On Japanese:
"Old Kabuki's in a coma and the market's going up. [?] How old is the boy? The battery's running down on that boy." (Reference to Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, who died the following week.)
On gays:
"I didn't know that Allan Bloom was coming in from the back end." (The homosexuality of the author of The Closing of the American Mind became widely known when Saul Bellow published Ravelstein, a novel whose protagonist was based on Bloom, who by then was deceased.)
"The enormously attractive [NBC political correspondent] Chip Reid, I can say without being accused of being some limp-wristed 'mo."
On the handicapped:
"Janet Reno's having a press conference. Ms. Reno, of course, has Parkinson's disease, has a noticeable tremor. [?] I don't know how she gets that lipstick on (laughter) looking like a rodeo clown."